Continuing To Harvest The City Of Lichinga

OUR CHILDREN

I’m sure sometimes, people wonder about our children. We are so thankful to the Lord for what He’s been doing with our young, anointed missionaries. They have been overcoming so many challenges since being in Mozambique. Before they didn’t like being in the dirt, or being around all the bugs. Now, they play with dead bugs and collect the live ones as pets. They even play in the dirt without fear of matequenia (the little worms that crawl into your skin). Amerel and Isaiah usually play with 4 of the base leader’s children who are between the ages of 3 – 13. There aren’t any other children close by. It’s a blessing, especially for Amerel who really misses her friends from the U.S. It’s beautiful to see the Lord work in their lives and use them as they join with us in praying, fasting and interceding for the city and the villages.

HARVESTING THE CITY OF LICHING

A Floor Hockey TeamWe asked for the city of Lichinga, and the Lord is continuing to open doors for us there. The Lord has been moving greatly on the heart of Celio, the Christian coach of the only floorball (floor hockey) team in our province of Niassa. He’s a great coach, and the Lord is preparing his heart to carry His glory in this sport. We’ve been spending a lot more time together, and both Fiel and I have been teaching him the word of God so he can confidently share his faith, and impact the lives of many young people.

Guerra Village in the Sanjala district of the city

In Portuguese, Guerra means War. A way has been prepared for us to impact War Village which is known for its spiritual darkness. (We don’t yet know why it has this name). We do know that there is much past hurt and pain in the lives of the people in this village. Fiel and I prayed for a man named Abel de Cruz, who had a swollen leg for months, and now the man is healed, able to walk longer distances and is going to church. Hallelujah! Before the Lord healed his leg, this Christian man joined us in laying down our lives to see the purposes of God fulfilled in the city. We believe this miraculous healing was a prophetic act and a confirmation that the Lord wants to heal the hearts of people in this area, and strengthen His people to be able to “go the distance” with Him. We arranged a meeting to meet with Abel de Cruz this Sunday, after church, to talk more about the presence of the Lord and ministering in the city.

Pray with us that the Lord will also provide us access to minister in one of the two small prisons in the city. The Lord has put this on my heart months ago, and we are waiting for His timing.

VISITING THE U.S. - testimony

We’ve recently been blessed with ¼ of the fare to travel from here in Lichinga, Mozambique to Johannesburg. We know He will provide the rest. Isn’t God wonderful! We already have our tickets from Johannesburg to the U.S.

Jesus is allowing us to visit for His purposes. We are desiring and praying for opportunities to share in churches about the wonderful things the Lord is doing through our ministry in Lichinga, Mozambique. We are also in the process of preparing another video to exclaim the wonders of God that are going on in this poor and dry place.

If you would like us to come and share at your church or other gathering, please send us an email. After seeking the will of the Lord on all invitations, we’ll contact you. We’ll be in the U.S. from ~Nov. 9 – Jan 16. It is not too early to contact us now, to give us time to pray and begin to schedule our time while being in the U.S.

We love you!

Bringing in the hearts for His harvest,

Tyren and Tiffany Haynes

Tyren’s phone: 011-258-827-413-545

Tiffany’s phone: 011-258-827-316-365

Email for Ministry only: heartsforharvest@yahoo.com

Blog: http://www.clgonline.net/blog/haynes

We Moved Into Our New House

HOUSE FOR GOD'S PLEASURE

We moved into our house on Thursday, September 11, just in time to celebrate our 11th Wedding Anniversary. Our children, Amerel and Isaiah, were beyond excited, and still are. They are running all over the place. Amerel prayed that God would give us joy moving into our new house. We all are full of the joy of the Lord. My wife and I are seeing and experiencing the gift that God was giving us in providing our own place. Now, we have more time to spend together as a family, just us. For the past 14 months (since June 2007), we lived out of one room, and have been living in a house with other people. For 3 months, I had to sleep with Isaiah, and Tiffany slept with Amerel. The rest of the time, the children's beds were about 3 feet away from our bed. Now, the children have their own rooms.

Since we moved into our house, we¡¦ve been very busy doing the Lord¡¦s work. Yesterday, we finished installing glass into all the wood window frames using silicone and very small nails. Much to Tiffany¡¦s excitement, we installed the bathroom sink. Oh, we also have a toilet bowl that actually flushes everything down without needing a whole bucket of water to flush it! We still don¡¦t have running water or a bore hole, so all of our water is still pulled from the neighboring well and we use buckets of water for flushing, bathing, cooking, etc. Continue to pray for the finances to have a bore hole dug. Tiffany¡¦s gas stove with the extra broiling (grilling) burner is working well also.

At separate times, both of us have looked around and just about cried. We left the U.S. with suitcases. We gave away many things and sold other things. We're pilgrims (sojourners) in a foreign land of promise. Here, the Lord gave us a house and land (for free). We have beds, an indoor bathroom, a book case, buckets to store well water, bicycles for our children, and a grass fence around our land, a motorbike, plastic dishes and cups. The Lord has truly been caring for us. We¡¦re looking beyond kingdom principles, giving and receiving, and looking beyond our needs (Matt 6:33) to simply see our great God for who He is and enjoy life with Him.

VISITING THE U.S.

That's right. We'll be visiting the U.S. in the beginning of November, and will stay until around mid-January 2009. Someone bought each of us round trip plane tickets for part of the journey from South Africa to the U.S. Hallelujah! We pray and believe the Lord will provide the rest to get from Lichinga to South Africa, so we¡¦ll be seeing you soon.

P.S. LOVE PACKAGES

Remember, packages only take about 2 weeks to reach Lichinga, Mozambique when shipped using the U.S. Post Office priority mail flat rate boxes (or other U.S. Post Office priority mail boxes). So, you still have enough time to send some :)

Resting in Christ's love,

Tyren and Tiffany Haynes

Tyren's phone: 011-258-827-413-545

Tiffany's phone: 011-258-827-316-365

Email for Ministry only: heartsforharvest@yahoo.com

Blog entries: http://www.clgonline.net/blog/haynes

The Beginning Of New Things At Our Center

The spiritual inauguration of the children’s center, Village of Joy, was wonderful. Both Rolland and Heidi Baker came to anoint the first orphan girls house and dedicate it to the Lord (see photo). Pastor Mario, a local Pastor in Beira who is a spiritual covering for the center as well, also spent the weekend with us. We spent time worshipping the Lord, praying for one another, and being greatly encouraged and strengthened by the many prophetic words that were given this weekend. Many people were saved during the outreaches on Friday and Saturday nights in the city and in Sambula village. Follow-up is being done in the village. In Sambula, a crazy woman was delivered and her family said later that she was eating and acting normally.

The main work for on our house has been completed. We had a special lunch for the workers which included goat, sausage, juice and cookies. Some of them have never had sausage. We also spent time worshipping, and I encouraged them with a few words. I miss them, but know that it’s time to release them into greater things. Only one of the four workers, Enos, will be with us for a few more weeks as he builds a grass fence around our house. The fence will help protect the property, as well as give our children a safe and private place to play. We are also “taking the hill” next to our house. It’s being cleared and fenced in along with the rest of our property. The hill is about as high as our roof and gives a beautiful view of the surrounding area. Since the workers have finished and left, I actually feel like a big (but delightful) burden of ministry was taken off of me. It feels as though I was yoked to a huge plow, plowing some spiritual field.

When will we move into our house?

As long as we have the outside doors on our house, we are going to move into our new house in time to celebrate our 11th wedding anniversary on Sept. 13th. We’ll finish everything else that needs to be completed after we move in. There is no running water or electricity in our area, but we will have drainage pipes for the bathroom and kitchen. Isn’t that wonderful! We’ll actually be able to use sinks to drain dirty water into the septic tank, instead of using plastic basins and dumping them outside manually, which is what we do now.

The more I look at our house, the more I see that God was doing the work. Sure the walls aren’t straight and some things aren’t level. But, that was part of the cost of allowing people to see Jesus more than my desire for straight and level walls. I’ve been so conscious of the Lord literally giving us the time to work, and increasing the product of our labor. It’s like He created a space of time in this world, and gave us everything we needed to complete His will within that time He created for us. We allowed God to work in our lives, so our work was actually the work of His hands upon us and through us. I can say, the Lord built the house. We worked when He enabled us to work on the house, and everyone spent considerable time worshipping and praying during work hours as well. When the Lord is the builder of our lives, He then gets the glory in whatever is produced by us because whatever we do is actually the work of His hands.

God bless you as you live for His glory.

We love you,

Tyren and Tiffany Haynes