During a recent gathering of the Body of Christ at the Barn in Sarasota, Florida, Pastor Steve Coder gave a word out of the Book of Jonah. This word challenged everyone hearing it to question whether they were fleeing God’s will on a figurative ship to Tarshish.
If so, the exhortation was to jump out and get back in God’s will and calling because it just might save believers and non-believers from a fatal storm. The response was powerful and convicting and we believe there may be a broader application to the church of Jesus Christ.
Dean Sherman, a great brother who has given & continues to give his life for others, is in health and financial crisis and could use our help. You may remember that Dean is the very brother that did the Spiritual Warfare teachings with us in Haiti, making it possible for us to get the teachings onto the Papyrus Players (that are now in almost 300 villages!)
Here is a post from Dean’s daughter, Cherie: PLEASE PRAY FOR DAD…HE IS IN KOREA (MOM IS W/HIM) AND HAS BEEN PUT ON BEDREST & IV FLUIDS DUE TO ONGOING HEALTH ISSUES. WE NEED A NEW INCOME FOR DAD OTHER THAN HIM BEING FORCED TO TRAVEL. ABOUT 75% OR MORE OF THEIR SUPPORT COMES FROM DAD’S TEACHING ENGAGEMENTS. BUT HE OBVIOUSLY CAN NO LONGER KEEP THE PACE (TRAVELING 300 DAYS/YR). SOMETHING MUST CHANGE ON THE FINANCIAL SIDE SO HE CAN STAY HOME!
Dean’s daughter Cherie created this blog, http://deansherman.blogspot.com/ making it possible to give anonymously. Thank you so much for your prayer and support for this precious brother in Christ!
On the one year anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti, at the exact moment the shaking started, a sound of praise was released in Haiti that shook the heavens! The Haitian saints at The Call-Haiti, gave such an shout of praise it was like the previous physical shaking was converted into an exponential spiritual earthquake! We have never experienced such a Jericho shout as our Haitian brothers & sisters released in that sacred moment!
Below is more footage from our recent trip into Haiti. God’s blessings upon everyone as we step into this new year! If you’d rather view on Youtube, click here: http://www.youtube.com/user/outpostworld
Mission Accomplished: Papyrus players are now in the hands of the Haitian pastors and being heard all over Haiti!
These Papyrus players hold 18 hours of teachings on Spiritual Warfare from our trip to Haiti, with Dean Sherman (nearly 2 years ago) along with the New Testament of the Bible! We wanted to try and give you a taste of the excitement we experienced in this project, so we put together a video presentation, which you can view by pushing the play button below. Thank you for all your support (in more ways than one). God bless you!
We just returned from Haiti last night and wanted to ask you to pray specifically for the situation in Haiti as it unfolds today.
Sister Phyllis and the Pastors in Haiti are greatly concerned about the potential for an eruption of violence. Because of the reaction to the recent elections a response is planned that could have serious and violent consequences.
Please join us as we pray for peace to settle over Haiti today.
Your intercessions mean so much!
Again, a special thanks to all of you for your prayers and support with the Papyrus project!
Papyruses are now running like wildfire through Haiti!
You may remember the story of Samson tying the torches of fire to the tails of three hundred foxes and setting them loose through the Philistine territory. That fire went forth and reeked destruction in the enemies’ camp. In the same way we saw the Papyruses going throughout Haiti and bringing light to the people of God while at the same time destroying the works of the enemy!
Yesterday afternoon we met with the Haitian pastors and put into their hands the Papyruses (with both the New Testament and the spiritual warfare teaching of Dean Sherman).Without a doubt this was one of the most monumental moments in the life of Hand to the Plow. A visiting missionary, observing the moment, began to weep realizing the power of what was just distributed.
One of the Haitian pastors could only say, “This is a BIG gift!” Another brother said that instead of going to bed at 10:00 p.m. he would start retiring at 7:00 p.m. so that he could listen to 3 hours of teaching before going to sleep. What an incredible time of God’s fullness as the Pastors left this morning armed with this unique tool of the Kingdom in hand.
This teaching comes at such a crucial moment in the life of the church. At the Pastor’s meeting yesterday, a choir made up almost exclusively of ex-witchdoctors – saved since the earthquake, sang and rejoiced of their deliverance. Their stories are incredible and their salvation is miraculous!
We are humbled and in debt to all of you, who through your prayers and support brought this mission to completion. A special thank you to Dean Sherman who so graciously and freely gave over 18 hours of teaching.
The vision we have had during this project is now “running like wildfire” throughout the nation of Haiti.
We will soon put the whole teaching with interpretation online for anyone to download and get out to the Haitian or Creole speaking community. May God be praised!
Be on the lookout for footage of our time with our dear brothers and sisters in Haiti.
We are leaving for Haiti in less than a week and finding major technical difficulties with the SD cards (containing the teachings on Spiritual Warfare by Dean Sherman) working with the Papyrus Players. Yes, we had sent out the blog Thanksgiving week saying that they were packed and ready to go, and then last night one of the girls going on the trip decided to listen to one of the sessions, only to find that the audio cut out mid-way.
So we got right to work on it this morning to find that all 18 sessions did the same thing. We have been looking for solutions to the problem and praying for wisdom and guidance. As our dear brother Dean Sherman has taught us to pray, “We are aware, but unimpressed with the enemy’s schemes.”
We are calling on the prayers of the saints for deliverance & breakthrough for this situation. We believe that this trip into Haiti, carrying these Papyrus Players (which hold key insight regarding Spiritual Warfare for our fellow Haitian brothers & sisters) to be the most important thing this ministry has done up until now.
Dean Sherman taught us years ago that, “It is to the degree and by the specificness with which we pray that God moves in the affairs of man.” Our heart in these blogs is to keep the praying saints up to date (as much as possible) on the specific needs of our fellow brothers & sisters in Haiti….that we might truly pray more specifically.
Update:
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Dec. 1 (UPI) — The United Nations says the death toll for the cholera epidemic in Haiti has reached 1,751 with more than 1, 200 people still hospitalized with the illness. The in-hospital fatality rate for the entire country is 3.6 percent but it is 4.5 percent in the capital of Port-au-Prince, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said. Key issues in the crisis involve the standardization of chlorine levels in water and the management of dead bodies, the U.N. agency said. Disposal of fecal matter is another problem healthcare workers must deal with in keeping cholera from spreading. The United Nations said security restrictions surrounding Haiti’s recent elections impacted the cholera response in some areas, though nearly all have been lifted and the situation is returning to normal.
Keeping You Posted So You Can Pray
Port-Au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) In an article from CNN:
Meanwhile, the Pan American Health Organization said it was planning to treat 400,000 cholera cases within the next year, up from a previous estimate of 270,000 over several years, as a result of the outbreak in Haiti.
“We need to plan for up to half of those cases occurring in the next three months because of the explosive nature of this epidemic,” the organization’s deputy director, Dr. Jon Kim Andrus, told reporters in Washington on Tuesday.
“We need more of everything,” he said. “More training for staff in Haiti, more doctors, more nurses, more treatment centers, more medications, more toilets, more clean water.”
