We're In!

Good News: We've been Accepted as Missionaries

Our application to become One Mission Society UK missionaries (focused on Haiti) has been approved, and we're now officially part of the OMS family. And it feels good!

(For what this is all about, read our previous post, Meeting of The Minds: Our Next Move from last month).

One of the biggest changes coming for us is that we will transition to raising financial support for our salaries, living and ministry expenses etc. OMS will work out how much we need to raise, based on where we're living and working, how often and for how long we're in Haiti, how often and for how long we'll be in the UK visiting churches there (all questions we don't have exact answers to yet). Even with years of experience in raising funds for the radio station, it's a daunting task to think about raising funds for ourselves. Daunting, and very humbling. But even before we'd even been accepted by OMS, one sweet lady we've ministered alongside recently said she'd like to support us. More than the money, she encouraged us!

Even as I write, I'm realizing more and more how much we have needed encouragement over the years - and still do (sometimes we don't realize we've missed anything until we enjoy the blessing of having it). Last night, friends who serve with The Seed Company (doing amazing stuff in Bible translation) came over for dinner and encouraged Storly that the work he's doing in the translation and production of the 5-year radio series Thru The Bible in Haitian Creole, is important work. The only systematic bible study, from Genesis to Revelation, available to so many people through the radio, in a country where about 80% of adults can't read or write well enough to cope with daily life. And it's broadcast every weekday on the two main Christian radio stations in Haiti. Yes, it's kingdom work, and it's good to be encouraged in it.

So, we're looking forward to linking arms with (existing and new) friends, and loved ones, individuals and churches so that, together, we can serve God and the Haitian people through Radio 4VEH.  And what does that 'service' look like?

This recent letter from a Radio 4VEH listener says it well.

It says: 

"4VEH, if I'm alive today, it's because you rescued me from Satan's hands. 

That's why I say that God help you to go further and never fall. 

Thank you! 4VEH, I love you in Jesus!"