Updates from Haiti - Fall 2020
As many of you are aware, we have a longstanding relationship with the New Testament Mission in La Croix, Haiti. NPC sponsors over 100 children. As we face our own challenges in the US, please continue to pray and keep our Haitian brothers and sisters in prayer. Below is update from November 2020
Mission Nouveau Testament de La Croix Carpentry Instructor Leandre Monfort
Ecole Technique de La Croix and our Construction and Administrative
November Update Assistant Sameson Mathieu.
We thank you so much!
Hi Folks… We know it has been a long time since our last update. So, here we go! We are still in the states preparing and awaiting for our return to La Croix, Haiti and the Technical School. As some of you know our students returned to class on August 24th and began making masks for all school students. After that by the middle of September they began a review of the skills they had gained and returned to larger projects as October began. Our goal is to complete and test for year two in May or June 2021. After all the unrest and school closures we hope to move to the final year three this coming September in Carpentry and Sewing / Tailor disciplines. We also await our school certification in 2021 as it has also been delayed because of turmoil in the country. We continue to work from home, while our heart is in La Croix… God willing the year ahead will be busy as we refine our techniques, hire instructors, accept applications, and open new disciplines in Masonry, Plumbing, Electrical, Welding, and Agriculture. Our God is so BIG! Amen! We feel God stirring us back into active service in La Croix in the near future. God has spoken to us all throughout our call to the Technical School; He has guided, provided, and protected His purpose. He has placed people, resources, and opportunity in our path. Despite great adversity since our beginnings over two years ago, He has made it very clear… this is His purpose! We continue to be reassured that this school has great potential to ”radically” change the lives of individuals and communities, to raise people out of poverty, and provide a conduit for people to claim the ability to provide for themselves and their families. Success of this school is the “ultimate food distribution”. Dan
beckbuilders@gmail.com Madel
madelbeck2016@gmail.com
We are prepared to do whatever God will have us do to complete His purpose for His glory. As we came to this task we only knew that God was using us, (and all of you) to build a school that would provide “international level” trade opportunities to raise people’s lives out of severe food insecurity and some of the most desperate poverty on the planet. But what was He really up to? In Haiti, a country with a violent, unstable political history, where the rule of law is challenged at every (bloki) fiery road block, desperation has become an everyday emotion, hopelessness is ingrained into daily life, and many turn to Vodou when all else fails and prayers are seemingly unanswered. A year ago friends of ours Bill & Becky Ross at Zion United Methodist Church in Sarver, PA. told us about a book written by a Southern Baptist pastor David Platt, titled “Radical”. Platt currently pastors McLean Bible Church in Virginia. This book Radical is looking deeply into what it really looks like to biblically be or call ourselves a follower of Christ? It calls us to explore the essence of Jesus’s command as He left us to reach the “lost” for Him. From this book and in our private study Madel and I received God’s answer… What is God really up to? Well… God has made it clear that in calling us to La Croix, He has placed us in a unique position to do more than provide employment skills and opportunities. As we build trust through relationship, He has called us to disciple the young adults we are preparing for a new life not only physically, but spiritually. We want to help students to explore aligning their career purpose with God’s unique purpose for their lives. This “whole life” approach could become a template for success to be replicated and have a ripple effect in the country. As all our Pastors exclaim, Haiti needs Jesus now… today, He is the only way! Facebook @ danandmadelonamission
Recently we were in the Pittsburgh Pa. area and had great fellowship with friends that also have a “Haiti Heart”. Jim and Bonnie Miller hosted us, thank you both so much. Madel had been asked to share her testimony as a message at Bethany Presbyterian Church in Bridgeville, PA; by Barb Crawford on Women’s Sunday. To view Madel’s message go to: ( bethanypresby.org drop down sermons / Nov. 8th Thank Offering) We also shared time with David and Molly Errett and Jim MacIntyre from Hickory Church (HUEPC), A great time of fellowship and prayer! We were blessed with a dinner with Mike Hladio a dentist who has a great Haiti heart, we shared life and talked about how we could all work together with the mission to be in greater service. We feel God nudging us closer to prepare for our return, so as we begin we will reach out to you to update and invite you into the purpose God lays before us. We declare 2021 will be a difficult year as we pull it all together. We ask that you join us daily in specific prayer for the La Croix Technical School, the faculty and students, along with all staff and our Haitian leaders. God can do all things, God could heal Haiti in an instance, our God is so big and wise! It is in His wisdom, through our obedience that meaningful, lasting change will come to La Croix, to Haiti! Our job is to simply accept His invitation to join Him in His purpose where He is already at work in La Croix, Haiti. Pray for blessings on Pastor Vaugelas and Ermithe Pierre, Pastor Evens, and Me Altenor Phillipe that they may be given wisdom, courage, and strength as they continue their work in obedience to God and the vision He gave Pastor Pierre so long ago for La Croix!
We are truly “all in this together”…
Dan and Madel Beck 315.292.0857 315.737.3157
