A little Rest and Relaxation

Just a little for now.  Last week, we spent most of the week (plus two travel days) in Blantyre, Malawi, to get some work done on our car. It takes about 8 hours to get to/from Blantyre to Lichinga. Much of the road on the Mozambican side is filled with mud, sand, and ditches, along with chickens, goats, and lambs that play, and even sit, in the middle of the road.


Our 4 kids posing in our home in Lichinga

 We called some people we know in Blantyre ahead of time to find a place to stay, but we still didn’t know where we’d stay until we got there. But God is good, and had prepared things for us. A place that hadn’t previously been available was suddenly available. For the first time, we stayed at an SIM guest house. It was a new place, which was recently built. This blessing fit right in with what the Lord told us about doing new things in our lives this year. The guest house was fully furnished, and we even got to use the outside laundry room with a washing machine and dryer for our clothes. There was running (hot!) water, city electricity and 2 bathrooms. Chayah also found a basket full of toys in the living room area!

We knew staying in this place was of the Lord. It was very restful for Tiffany. So, we decided to stay one extra day and just hang out some more and relax. Before we went to Malawi, someone whom we had met recently actually gave us a donation which paid the cost of staying at the guest house.

Malawi:  After being in the certified Nissan repair shop for

2 days, I went to another place for tire alignment and balancing.

Of course, in my heart I would love to share some more ministry updates with you. After all, that’s what this blog is for. But, it’s also important to let you know about the other things we do. In some ways, how we live here is not very different than the way you live in the U.S. We do lots of other things besides preaching, teaching, interceding and other ministry in the city and villages. There’s washing clothes, cleaning the house, bathing, cleaning the house some more, helping the kids with homework, homeschooling, fixing the house, fixing the car, etc.; and, all the other normal things that one can expect have to be done. Usually, every day has its share, and often its fill, of ministry to others in one form or another. We minister hard, and are learning how to rest well, also. Rest is very important!

Just because you need to know more about where we live...


Close by our house, I gave these guys, and others, plastic bags to collect the bugs that were escaping
 from holes in the ground.  They were eagerly collecting handfuls of them to eat.

Love,

Tyren and Tiffany

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Happy New Year!

A Year To Know God More Intimately

Coming into the New Year, the Lord has already been doing new things. Newness and fulfilled promises are two of the things the Lord has been putting on our hearts for 2012. But, more excitingly, we believe God wants to reveal more of Himself to us that we might intimately know Him in 2012 like we’ve never known Him before. Since we know the Lord can speak through His works, and that His works can give testimony to things He wants to do in our lives, we are taking note of some new things the Lord is already doing at the start of this year.

Dreams
Many of you may be like my wife, whom God speaks to through vivid dreams. I hardly ever receive dreams like that. But, early one morning I had a dream about the prison. When I went to minister in the prison that day, the same things that had happened in my dream were happening before me. Things that usually don’t happen in the prison were happening just like they had in my dream. So, that morning in the prison, I shared the same scripture that I saw myself teaching the prisoners in the dream I had.

Then, there was a Muslim man I had seen in my dream. When I went to the prison and saw him, I pulled him aside and began to prophecy over his life concerning Jesus, the Son of God, calling him. He just shook his head in acknowledgement. The Lord had already been speaking to him and drawing his attention to the truth of Jesus Christ (just like the Lord had showed me in the dream).

Healing came in a different way
During ministry time at Assumane church, one little girl came up because of pain in her head. The Lord told me to walk around her 7 times. I lost count walking around her, so I walked around one more time just in case it hadn’t been 7 times. Then, I shouted because that’s what the Lord told me to do. The Lord healed the girl. Through a Yao translator I asked, “When did the pain go away?” The little girl responded, “When you shouted.” We encouraged her to stand in front of the other children and testify of her healing.

Through His works that the Lord is showing us, we are encouraged to seek Him and know Him more intimately - like never before. Join with us and pray that the Lord would continue to draw the hearts of people to Himself. Pray that our hearts would remain open to experience and know Him more and more in 2012 (Philippians 3:7-8). However the Lord wants to work in our lives and ministry is fine with us. For through His works, God is making Himself known and bringing glory to Himself through our ministry, the beautiful people of Mozambique, and beyond.

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Love,

Tyren and Tiffany Haynes