Pastor Albert oversees 115 churches and 70 schools in the Artibonite association in Central Haiti. Pastor Albert has had a relationship with the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention for over 13 years. Most High Ministries is working directly with Pastor ALbert to provide food and resources for the St Marc area of Haiti.

 

A Message from Pastor Albert

We want to tell you how much we are thankful of what people of Most High Minstry is doing for us even though we do not have a word to explain how you have been blessing.  We are telling you thanks a lot. We will always be thankful of what you have been doing for the orphans mainly for Confraternity School that you start helping them with food every month.  Thanks to Most High Ministry, the kids are able to eat every day.  Thanks for working for God and thinking about Haiti, especially about those who are in need in the Central Association.

 

We will continue to pray for Most High Ministry so that God can continue to bless you every second (of the) day in your work with Him and we believe He "who has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ."  We love you and pray for you.

                    Pastor Albert, Director of Artibonite Association

 

 

Yvesner Sylla - Haiti

Yvesner Sylla works with Pastor Albert and oversees a program for over 200 orphans in St Marc.

 

A message from Sylla:

"I am not trying to make you do what you can not do and  I know things are really hard over there not only in Haiti I am just trying to let you know the way things are in Haiti. I can tell you if The Lord did not bring you and most high ministry was not we do not know how we could handle this situation.
Thanks a million for helping Haiti

 

It was really important for your ministry to come in Haiti to try to change the way they see things and I believe that work will as we continue to honor God I can tell you have done a lot for Haitian people and God will keep on blessing you exceedingly above cause every good and perfect gift comes from Him alone you are like a gift we receive.

 

Tell the supporters and your family we really grateful for sacrifices and what you do for Haitian and for what you about to do.

I love you for the person you are and for your love for Christ we pray for you."

 

 

 

Lori Jackson - Ukraine

Ministry Focus:  Youth

 

 

 

Click to read a copy of Lori's New Year's Newsletter

 

In Lori's Own Words

  "I am living in Ukraine—learning Russian and serving with Radooga, a camp and conference organization that exists to help build the church in Ukraine. God has given me a passion for two things—youth and the nations.  The fact that I am living in Ukraine and serving with a youth focused ministry is a dream come true. I knew for sure when I was in high school that I wouldn't spend most of my life in America. My best friend came on a two week mission trip to Ukraine and while she was here, I prayed for her, for Radooga and for Ukraine. God totally used my time in prayer to give me a heart and passion for this nation and the people who live here. Ukraine is in a very strategic position. She is right in the middle of the European Union and Russia. Being here, she has a lot of influence. I believe that God will take this positioning and use Ukraine to spread His Word in both directions. I believe that as we help youth to know Christ they will grow up to be the doctors, teachers, salesclerks—maybe even the president— who will lead this nation and influence the nations around her. I am honored that I am here to watch God work."

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A Letter From Lori

October 4, 2009
Dear Friends and Family,

September, true to form in my world, was a month full of all sorts of surprises.

 

Boarding the train from Lugansk to Kiev with some friends at the end of August solidified the end of summer in my head.  And it, as usual, was a bitter sweet ending.  I wouldn’t trade the people, places or events of my summer for anything in the world and yet having my heart reside in yet another place is difficult.  I hate goodbyes and am forever experiencing them.  But through them I am gaining a better understanding of the fact that my home is not a place, it is the presence of Christ.  I was home the moment I acknowledged him as savior, I am home now—wherever I am, and I will be home for all eternity in Him.  

 

In Kiev I was able to spend some time with the Magdych family, celebrating Oleg’s birthday and Yan’s first first day of school.  In Ukraine all schools begin on the same day, September 1st.  It is a holiday of sorts, ‘the Day of Knowledge.’  After school we celebrated with cake and a present (a new toy robot) for our first grader.

On September 3rd I arrived back in Poltava, anxious to see what a new year would hold.  Here’s some of what I’ve been up to:

 

Tutoring
During the summer I spoke with one of the families who had adopted from our orphanage in Poltava.  Their daughter is good friends with a girl who just graduated out of our orphanage.  This family wants to try and help this orphan graduate come to the states to study.  They asked if I would consider tutoring her in English three days a week.  I agreed and met with Alina the day after I got back to Poltava.  She is very eager to learn English (in hopes of traveling to the states) and asked if we could meet not three, but six times a week.  Me still uncertain of what God has for me this semester decided to agree to try this for a month and then reevaluate each of our times and priorities.  She is also going to school—and I told her that school here still needs to take first priority. 

 

Month one with Alina has been awesome.  She is super sweet, really motivated to learn and a lot of fun.  God has been working in her life and two weeks ago Sunday Alina and I went to church together.  It was her first time to go to church.  She asked me lots of questions afterwards.  Last weekend I was in Kiev and when I got home on Monday, Alina informed me that she had gone to church on her own.  Later today I will be going with her again.  Pray for Alina, that she might know Christ and understand real love.  Pray for me as I seek ways to share that with her.

 

Jehovah’s Witnesses
One day not long after I first arrived back in Poltava there was a knock on my door.  I opened it to find two ladies asking about who I thought would go to heaven.  I explained that I am a Christian and said that I believe that those who believe in Jesus Christ will be saved.  They talked for a few more minutes and then asked if they might come back the next week.  I agreed and immediately began asking God for wisdom in what to do with this.  I do [did] not know much about Jehovah’s Witnesses so I began asking Ukrainian friends what they knew and learned that the biggest err is the belief that Christ is not himself God.  They have been back once or twice a week since our first meeting.  I have been praying for them.  I do not know what God is doing.  I cannot understand how someone can read the Bible and miss the message of Jesus.  It is woven throughout everything.  But, as long as God continues to allow these ladies to come into my home I will continue to show them scripture of Christ and share stories of my personal relationship with Him.  He is everything.  Pray for wisdom in my words and actions with these sweet ladies.  My heart breaks for theirs.

 

Orphanage
Because I am not officially invited to be at the orphanage, I never know what my visits there are going to look like and each one varies from the next.  One day, I arrived between classes and threw sticks at trees with some boys in hopes that the pears would fall out and we could have a snack.  Occasionally I deliver gifts from American friends we have met over the past couple years or those who have heard from those who have been here that I exist.  I always sit in the lobby and see what God will do.  This week, as I sat waiting for a kid I knew to walk by, Dima, steps around the corner into the director’s office.  He makes eye contact with me that says, “I’m in trouble for something, but this shouldn’t take too long.”  Sure enough, a few minutes later he’s closing the door behind him and headed over to the bench I am sitting on.  We make small talk and I pull out some candy from my purse.  Then comes the question all kids want to know when visitors show up “who are you here to see?” I assure him I have come to see everyone.  That I miss them and I want to hang out with them.  He invites me to their room; I ask if that’s allowed.  He assures me that it is and I follow him up the stairs.  He informs the caregiver that he has a guest with him.  The caregiver looks at me and says “we’re watching a movie” and then goes back i nto his room.  Without a team or an adopting family I’ve never been in the kids’ living area; I’ve been confined to more neutral ground—the lobby, the cafeteria, the yard.  This is new, and it’s good.  Please pray for these kids.  Pray for me as I continue to spend time with them and get to know them.  I hurt and ache for the situations they have come out of and for the place they are in and I know God loves them more than I can even begin to comprehend.  I need His strength and wisdom and love in order to minister effectively to these kids.

 

Camp Friendship
Since the summer I have been in touch with a lot of people from camp—staff, campers and Americans.  Servant Life will be sending a team at the end of this month to do a fall camp for the Bellarechinka kids.  They have been doing this for several years now.  I will meet them in Kiev and travel with them to Lugansk to work this camp.  I’m really excited for this opportunity and can’t wait to see my Lugank-ian friends, the kids and this American team.  Jenn Smith, whose adoption story you head a lot about in my letters a couple years ago is bringing some friends from her church to work this camp, so I am very excited to see them again.  Madison, an ex-Radooga summer staffer will also be on the team.  Pray for them as they are preparing stateside and pray for us as we prepare over here.  :o)
I do not know what tomorrow holds.  And, honestly, I often wish I did.  But when I look back, I see that God’s hand has been all over every part of my journey thus far, how could I not trust Him to know what’s best.  And so, one step at a time, I will follow…

 

Serving with you,
Lori

Habakkuk 1:5

"Look at the nations and watch—
       and be utterly amazed.
       For I am going to do something in your days
       that you would not believe,
       even if you were told.”

 

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