Water Well at Ms Agnes's Dedicated

For about a year now we have been raising funds to install a water well at Ms Agnes. Through the generous giving of a few close and dear friends we were able to raise the money needed. Once we had the money we had to find a reliable well digger in Uganda. This was not such an easy task but we finally found a man named Frank of Swiss Crème Company. All we had was a testimony that Frank is a good man. We went ahead and hired him to hand dig the well. Frank and his crew "hand dug" this 40'+ deep water well. He bricklined the well as they went. He started the project a couple of weeks before we were to arrive in Uganda and finished while we were there. Within 3 days he had the well finished and June 14 we dedicated the well as Jehovah Jira well—God provides. There were folks from several Alabama, Florida and Texas Churches present. It was a awesome day of celebration! Ms Agnes was so over- whelmed she could not contain herself. The children sang and danced.
(note: This water well is very important for several reasons. Now that the children don’t have to cross a dangerous road they are no longer in peril of traffic and/or the awful threat of kidnapping to be sold into slaveryor just attacked by just mean people. This all sounds surreal but it is a way of life in Uganda and other third world nations. Not only is their safety improved but also with the water so available their health and hygiene will improve. The very first thing the kids did when the well was pumping was wash their clothes. Another benefit of this well is the neighbors get to use it as too).
Before we left the well began to develop a problem and it was worrisome to me since I knew we probably would not be there to see the problems corrected. Frank assured me he would fix the problems. PRAISE THE LORD, Frank was good to his word. He had to dig the well deeper and put in a new pump—at no extra cost! Frank is a Christian and he knows that he must honor the Lord in his work. He finished and communicated the positive results. We will highly recommend Frank on future projects.
now the only problem we have to face is water purity. Kelly Green said he would help with a water purification system if we needed one. We are flushing the well out now and will test in the coming weeks.

A big thank you goes to all of those who help in this project. This is changing the lives of the children and the surrounding community. Praise Jesus!

Christmas In January

I am going to let Ms Agnes and the children in the pictures speak for themselves. I'll just say PRAISE THE LORD FOR HIS PROVISION!

Dear Richard and Darlene,
Greetings in Jesus Name. I would first give my heartfelt thanks for the Christmas gifts you sent to me and the children. May the Almighty God bless you very much.
I have sent some of the photos which we managed to take. You will see all the children very happy and checking the boxes, you will see them playing with the yooyo. You will see me opening my gifts while the children are around and one of them helping me putting my necklace round my neck. I tell you it was such a great day for the orphans. You can see Julie who came to witness the children receiving their gifts. One is of the children each one with his/her blankets because the one I sent the other day, most of the orphans had gone to the bore hole to bring water for bathing, but this time they were all around and each of them participated. I can tell you this was like heaven on earth. I would again thank you for the toothpaste and tooth brushes for each of them,also the pencils and shapeners.
I don't have words to express how happy we felt.The whole place was filled with the Joy of Christmas.
God bless you.
Agnes

New Team Member

I am excited to announce the addition of a new team member dedicated to helping us here at Fair Havens and also to feeding the hungry. His name is Ryan Peaslee. He is a biologist for the state of Alabama and expert fish farmer. He recently read the newspaper article in the Mobile Press about us and was moved. So, he called me a few days ago and let me know he wanted to help. I was able to go by and meet him today. Ryan is a fine young man with a beautiful family. Drew is his wife and he has two children. Although Ryan is very busy on his job, he is going to help us with the science part of the mission. He is a very humble young man and I believe the Lord is going to use him in a great way. He is already planning to join us on the Uganda mission in June. We are excited to have him on our team.

God is blessing

Don't you just love the smiles on these little faces? Priceless!

It is hard to believe that we just met Ms Agnes and kids in Jinja in May 2007. It is also hard to fathom now fast the Lord wants to do His will in our lives. It may not seem like much but the sell of the necklaces has brought stability to Ms Agnes and the children. The Lord has faithfully provided opportunity to sell the necklaces and produce income for the children. Attached is a picture of the kids with their new blankets that were brought by the sell of the necklaces and through donations of some very kind folks. All the children are in school and all are eating regularly. We hope to do more projects as time goes on. See our project list on the fairhavensministries.com web site. Will you help? We need to continue to sell necklaces and also we need to go and do some work on site. Would you like to join in with us? You can join in by going with us, or by praying for us or by donating monies to fund projects or you can do all three. Just write to me at winterrb7@myway.com

Pastor Henry Ssevviiri from Uganda

It is has been our pure joy to host Pastor Henry Ssevviiri in our home. He was with us from Nov 18-23 and then again Dec 8-13. Pastor Henry is from Jinja, Uganda where he pastors Life Giving Streams of Living Water Tabernacle Church. We have worked with Pastor Henry through Ken Galyean of "Call to Africa" and some others.

Pastor Henry has been wonderful. He has partcipated in all kinds of meetings raising awareness of the needs in Uganda, to preaching, to handing our hot dogs at a community outreach event in the Woodlands in Citronelle, to helping us sell our Kids' necklaces at HairRageous on Hill Crest Road in Mobile. He has helped me on a building project at the barn at Fair Havens Farm. He helped me prepare Christmas shoe boxes to be delivered to our Kids in Jinja. He has endured extremely cold weather (30-40degree nights) - I believe he actually thought he was going to freeze to death at one point. But praise the Lord for Mobile weather - he actually broke a sweat this week. He has been a true sport and just a lot of fun as well as a great spiritual inspiration to me and Darlene.

This is a man to get to know.

I am thankful he has blessed us in our home.

The kids singing praises to the Lord

These are our kids at Ms Agnes Orphanage. I had a great visit with them in October. They sing about how wonderful and powerful is the your Name oh Lord. They believe what they sing.

Fair Havens goes to Africa

On May 22,2007 Darlene and I along with six other friends left for Uganda, Africa to join about 35 others from around the country to do a medical and evangelical mission in an area around Jinja. While we were there we particapated in a number of activities.

• We assisted doctors and dentists minister to over 2,000 patients.


• We gave away over 300 pairs of glasses


• We continued working on a fish farming project that was begun on January 2007.


• Through door to door evangelism we led about 25 folks to the Lord.


• Our ladies participated in a ladies conference. Over 150 ladies atttended.


• We distributed food to 80 families in a refugee camp.


• We distributed hygiene products to many folks


• We found and adopted an orphanage

God blessed us incredibly and we all are changed by this mission.