November/December Prayer Letter

November/December 2013
Haynes Family, Missionary to Italy

Hello Everyone and God Bless,
Even though I am not currently “on the field”, the harvest is everywhere around and I am not out of the fight!  Although my family and I have continued to have our share of trials we are still pushing onward—just like many of you reading this letter.  I am happy to state I have had answered prayer in the past few months and also happy to state our church is having a mission’s conference in December.  Also, this prayer letter I am happy to inform everyone we are having another girl:  Claudia Mandela Haynes….(Mandela was the town where we lived in Italy)
I know some people might not understand/agree/like, etc, etc everything each other does or HOW they perform the task God has given them, but people are still pushing for the Lord Jesus Christ which is a blessing.  Even though I might not be overseas, there is plenty of work to be done right here in the USA.  I have greatly enjoined street preaching with our church which has been a blessing, due to the colder weather, we have redirected our outreaches—but will continue to stay faithful in reaching to the lost.  I am happy that during Halloween, we had many people “trick or treating” and we were able to pass out many tracts—take that devil. 
We are having a mission’s conference at our church, and I am excited.  I’m just happy that we are having missionaries come in and taking on new missionaries!!  Please pray that we can be a blessing to them MORE than they are a blessing to us!  Life on the road is hard, family on the road is hard…but these missionaries (evangelists included) deal with many hardships just to be able to GET TO their field BEFRORE they even start “the work”.  My prayer is that our church blesses these guys so they are encouraged to keep moving, and keep moving, and keep moving. 
I am also glad to state I have had some answered prayer over the past weeks.  Almost nothing is better than ANSWERED prayer!  But I would like to humbly ask the person reading this letter if they would please pray for us.  I know everybody has been going through many things—and some people’s trials are much worse than mine…but would you please pray for us right now?.  –For some time now (like years) we have been going through some storms, some trials, some afflictions.  I understand we are appointed to these, but I have been in the furnace for a long time now.  I am not too proud to not ask for help in prayer, but want to humble myself and ask my fellow Christians to pray for us for wisdom as to what God wants me to learn.  I would appreciate it.
God Bless each and every one of you.  I know that if you are still reading this letter, you at least half way care about missions, missionaries, etc.  I praise the Lord for being so good to me and praise the Lord that I can even type these letters.  But I am glad that I have a group of people who read prayer letters and pray.
Little bit different that the normal prayer letter, but I feel that I can be honest with you guys—after all…if you can’t ask for prayer from the churches of God, who can you?
Thanks again and we are continuing to seek the correct timing about God’s directions!
In Christ,

Brother Harrison Haynes

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