Hi,

I want to say another great big thank you for your continued support, we continue to be able to do what God has called us to do. Here is an update on the 5 points of light. Good Samaritan Orphanage: This continues to be a challenge for us to meet the needs of the children, but with God's help and yours, we are making a difference. I was going through some old pictures yesterday and ran across a picture of my 2 year old Jony, long before I took him home. It just so happens Jayden, my grandson, first took a liking to him. He was following him around one day last year on a visit to the Orphanage.

Victory Bible Church: We continue to plug on waiting for our church to be built. As you know, we ran into some legal issues on the deed and are almost finished with this. My board did not want to begin to build and then have us lose our property on some slim oversight. We have had 7 meetings in the past month and everything is in order to finalize paperwork so we can build. It will get done.

Grace Emmanuel School: We are finishing up another successful year. Our school has become a very strong point of light for us. Fondi Moise, the director, has done a fantastic job hiring and training good, Christian teachers. This summer Fondi will be leaving the position as school director to become the School Superintendent. Fondi will be taking on administrative responsibilities for our mission as well. One of our teachers is being promoted to the directors position, one he is well qualified for.

To all of those of you who sponsor children, thank you so much. I don't get a chance to thank you individually, like I would like, but know your sponsorship is making this all possible and is well worth it.

New Roads outreach: As you know, we have expanded from being just at the garbage dump to the nearby village, Merjay, where many of these folks live. We are meeting with and training 10 leaders. This Wednesday when our staff got to the village for kid's club, the leaders had already assembled all the kids and were doing kid's club, early. Jony told the staff to just let them finish. They did great!

60 young men and young women are also being taught English. The people in Merjay just love learning English, the Bible and about life. One of their favorite lessons in our class is "In the news". I take the top 2 or 3 stories in the world and share what is going on. They are void of this news and really enjoy this time.

Mission home: My home with the 17 boys, 4 staff, and myself is going really well. God has really blessed our efforts and the family is really coming around. We have family fun night on Monday's where we spend 2 hours playing games. Tuesday and Thursday is Bible study night with lessons led by each Roger and Altimae , and Wednesday is family meeting night where we discuss any problems or things that are going on.

I don't know the end game but I know this, God has placed in my care some of the most unbelievable, incredible young people in the world. Those of you you who have come can verify that. I am blessed by my Haitian family, humbled that God has chose me to lead them, and so thankful that YOU have chosen to invest your time and finances into the lives of these people. Thank you so much! I am taking a break for a couple weeks before guests begin to arrive. We are so excited to have vistors from the good old USA coming from about the middle of May to the end of July, and then some. Thank you to those of you who are making this sacrifice of time, energy and money to come make an eternal difference in the lives of these people. tominhaiti

PS- My Detroit Tigers are only a game out of first, told you they would be good.

Thank you for your support

Tom Osbeck
Executive Director
Jesus in Haiti Ministries

For Contributions:
Jesus in Haiti Ministries, Inc. Suite 155 10214 Chestnut Plaza Drive Fort Wayne, IN 46814

Dear friends, Monday night

I trust you all had a great Easter weekend, as the basis of our faith was celebrated all over the world. We had a great weekend, here is an update on the going on's:

Friendly visit: We want to thank the Hassey family from Ohio for coming and doing ministry with us for the past week. Thank you Kevin, Roseann and your 3 wonderful kids, Meg, Kate and Steve.

The word Meg in Creole means skinny so Meg got called skinny all week, which she didn't mind. Claudy thought Kate's name was Cake so she was called Cake all week. Thank you folks for coming, and giving and leaving..........part of your heart behind.

2 and 2: One of the first things our Pastor Jackie told me when I met him 3 years ago was that God promised him 2 boys and 2 girls when he was married. At the time Pastor and his wife had 2 boys and 1 girl. Well, yesterday, Easter Sunday morning Eve Rose Delice gave birth to a baby girl, just like God said. Pastor was called midway through church Saturday night to be with his wife. I am going in the morning to visit the baby, and get the name. I suggested naming her Esther on Easter but we shall see.

Birthday Boys: Tomorrow night we celebrate two birthday's here, Dearson, whose birthday is Tuesday and Manel who has a birthday Wednesday.

English anyone: Last Thursday was our first English class at Merjay. It was so exciting to pull up and see over 50 people, men and women, all dressed up, from this very poor village, all walking to English class. Then to stand before this class of 51 people sharing the word of God, using English as a tool was incredible. I wish you could have seen the spark in their eyes, the hope on their face. They found out that this class is much more than about learning English, it is about eternity. I can't wait for this week. Pray will ya for this new ministry?

Elections: Next Sunday Haiti has it's elections minus the candidates of the largest political party, the Lavalas party. The government of Haiti voted to not let this party of our former president Aristide run for office and they are hot. When they are hot, things get hot so please pray for this weekend and the possibilities of what could happen.

Church: This past week at church, was a real challenge for me. Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. Case in point;

*The truck that brings people from Pastor Jackie's village broke down, we had to drive and get these folks.

*Our sound system man didn't show up, the sound was off kilter all night and way too loud.

*Pastor left quickly to be with his wife having her baby, with me shoving him out the door.

*The oil was not checked by our generator man before church and half way through, the generator stopped. Luckily it has a system to protect it so after oil was put in, we continued church with power.

*A few other odds and ends made it a very challenging night, but, we survived.

God cares he's alive: 5 years ago one of my ministry staff came to me and said he had his nephew living with him but he could not take care of him. I told him I would take the 7 year old boy to my home. When the 20 year old parents found out, their only comment was "who cares if he's alive or dead?"

I took this precious little boy home and found out that I had my hands full. I had never seen such a BAD little boy. Putting peanut butter in the VCR, cutting my truck tires, stealing, breaking stuff, you name it, he did it. The final straw was when he began to leave our yard without permission. This was during the days of kidnapping, which were happening on our street. This was very dangerous for him to do.

I tried everything, spankings, yelling, being his friend, timeouts, everything, plus lots of prayer but nothing worked. He was so bad for our family, I regretfully took him back to his uncle, admitting defeat. Very, very sad.

This took place the day after school was out that summer. Two months later the uncle called saying this little boy was begging to come back to "poppy's house". I broke every world speed record to go pick this little boy up. 4 years later, little Steven has become a wonderful 12 year old boy. He was in our drama at church as a 12 year old Jesus. I thought of his past, his parents, and how far this little boy has come in 4 years. He has become one of the best boys, oh, still gets in the normal trouble but what a guy. He went to town with me today and we had a blast talking and laughing.

We got home and he helped me make supper and serve it. Another example of why I am here, why you do what you do. A little boy, not only given up on by the world, but thrown away by his own parents. A boy who is becoming a young man. A young man who will become a man. A man who will change his world, because of Jesus, in Haiti. Thank you all, for Steven, and for the lives he will touch with the life changing message of Jesus Christ. tominhaiti