Dear Bethanie Friends,

“And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the Word by the signs that followed.”

Mark 16:20

We are very grateful to God, to all our friends, supporters, partners, and to all our board members. We also want to mention that we are appreciative for Mike & Jean Fisher’s long time commitment to Bethanie Evangelical Mission of Haiti. Spiritually speaking, it's been a year of great harvest and great blessings. We have seen 1,205 souls added to the Kingdom of God, 489 new Christians receive water baptism, 32 students graduate from Bible/Vocational School and 200 children graduate from kindergarten. To God belongs the glory!

Financially speaking, this year has been a difficult one. We’re sorry to hear that some of our donors are struggling financially and have had to cut back or eliminate their support. We pray that God will help them through their difficulties. However, because of that, we are unable to give as much aid to our pastors and teachers as we would like to. We realize the bad economy has hurt everyone but we are so thankful that we have partners who are still able to keep their commitment to Bethanie Mission. For that we are very grateful to God and thank all of you for your faithfulness.

In term of projects, last February we broke ground for the church of Port-au-Prince. We had a team come to help. Mike, Vasco, Dave, Gary, Mick, Wayne, Steve and Amy and their son worked alongside the construction workers. Albert Allen and Dr. Phillip Lucas also gave us a lending hand. We had to stop construction on the church for quite a long time because of the heavy rain last October. But we recently completed the third phase of the building which is the roof.

The construction of Maniche Medical Clinic began last August. Again, due to bad weather conditions, we had to stop construction for over a month. However, we thank God that the first phase of this project is now completed.

The coming of the Lord is getting closer and closer and we still have lots to do for Him. We have many places we would like to plant more churches. There are two important factors that need to occur for us to achieve this. First, we need to have an increase of support to train pastors for the ministry and second, we need to have more funds to support those pastors. Please pray that God will continue to answer our prayers so that there will be enough financial support. We would like to see the lives of our pastors and teachers improved. We ask God to bring them out of poverty.

Once again, thank you very much for all you do and may God continue to bless you all.

 Here are our prayer requests:

1. Pray for a spiritual awakening for our nation.
2. Pray for more financial support for Bethanie Mission.
3. Pray for $8,000 to buy land for the church of Les Anglais.  

Together in the Lord’s Harvest,

Ignace & Franchette Augustin