Vacation - Having Fun With Jesus

The Haynes Family is doing well. We are away from our home and mission field of Mozambique, but not away from “missions”.

On June 25, our little Chayah turned 1 year old. One of the reasons the Lord sent us back to the U.S. during this time was to celebrate Chayah’s first birthday with my parents. Jesus values relationships and family. It was exciting to hear my dad’s exclamation as he watched Chayah taking some of her first steps, and also seeing his proud look when she cried for him as he left for work in the afternoon.

Currently we are on a 5 day vacation at Sandy Cove Ministries in Maryland (www.sandycove.org). This is an exciting place full of God’s presence and goodness along with food, games and activities for the whole family. There are scheduled times every day for the kids to do activities with other children in their age group that involve some bible teaching along with just plain fun so the parents can spend time with God alone and each other. Jesus is truly giving us a valuable time just to hang out and indulge ourselves in being with one another. I (Tyren) wouldn’t trade these 5 days for 5 days of experiencing the salvations, healings and other ministry that happens in Mozambique (as wonderful as it is to take part in it)!

Jesus has been showering us with His love and goodness in so many ways. Let me share this short story Amerel told me to illustrate this. Amerel and Isaiah were looking at toys here at Sandy Cove. Another child wanted one, but didn’t have any money. The man selling them said that he wished he could give one away free but he couldn’t. While they were looking at the toys, he asked Amerel and Isaiah where they were from and Amerel told him that she and Isaiah were missionaries in Mozambique. The man said, “I never met missionaries from there before”. While they were telling me the story, the Lord showed me that the man was overjoyed with the fact that Jesus is touching nations, even nations like Mozambique. Then, the man gave our kids their choice of not 1, but 2 free toys. We thank the Lord for His goodness. But, the blessing behind the free toy blessing was seeing the effect that the name and work of Jesus has on people. The man was so moved by what Jesus is doing in a nation he’s not familiar with, that he gave away toys that he couldn’t give away before. Our kids were blessed, but the man did it for Jesus. Isn’t our Lord amazing?

This is just a short blog to let you know how we are doing. We love you. Please continue to remember us in prayer. The Lord is renewing our minds, and opening up new opportunities for us through fresh revelation dawning in our hearts. We’ll continue traveling through the end of July to meet with friends and family on the east coast.


In Christ’s love,

Tyren