New Horizon International

An Update About New Horizon Home

Posted on June 25, 2015Leave a comment

It is past time for an update on the ministry of Eastside Baptist Church in Port-au-Prince, Haiti at our girls home. A lot of things have been happening. Let me give a brief update with short testimony and a few pictures.

The faithful at Eastside Baptist Church continue steadfastly praying for all the needs to be met. We don’t put out pleas for help from others (we don’t oppose those who do). We take all of our request to God and trust Him to provide as He moves His people. We never turn down an opportunity to share about the work with those who ask and we don’t shy away from informing organization offering support upon requests nor from sharing with our church family how God answers our plea.

Here are some recent ways God answers those prayers:

First of all: Meet Jean Alexander Veillard, born Tuesday morning to Alex and Johanne Veillard. Alex is the director of New Horizon Home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
There is not a week that goes by that God does not prompt someone to give to the ongoing ministry work of New Horizon International. Faithful giving of people every week at Eastside Baptist Church. Faithful giving of strangers we’ve never met. Faithful giving of churches from around the country. Faithful giving of children collecting pocket change. Faithful giving of widows on fixed income. Faithful giving of businessmen, labor workers, work-from-home moms, etc. The mail man has little idea of the kind of blessings from God he delivers regularly. May the Lord bless His people at the following churches… Second Baptist Church, Amarillo, TX. The Church at Quail Creek, Amarillo, TX. Bear River Valley Baptist Church, Tremonton, UT. Eastside Baptist Church, Twin Falls, ID. Berean Baptist Church, Wendell, ID. Magic Valley Baptist Association. Treasure Valley Baptist Association. The River, Twin Falls, ID.
In a few weeks a group of 8 college students from Boise State University will travel with me to do some bed construction (funds for the beds are provided by The Church at Quail Creek in Amarillo, TX), general care to the home, ministry in a local hospital, English school, and local Baptist Church. Work on our own water well has been going on since my last visit back in January. Until now we did not have our own water source. By the grace of God, we are nearing completion of our water well at New Horizon Home. Alex, our director at the home, is very careful with all money and understands that we can only buy and pay the workers with what God gives us. New Horizon Home continues to receive high inspection marks and Alex is told by officials that New Horizon Home is unlike most homes in the city; clean, efficient, happy. We count this a blessing from God.
We have received word that we now have about 10 acres of agriculture land to begin using. I don’t know how we received it, who gave it to us, or anything about it. On my upcoming trip I will discover all these details and bring report back to the Lord’s people at Eastside. Wow.
About one year ago I was asked to preach in Tremonton, UT at Bear River Valley Baptist Church on a Sunday morning. By the kindness of Eastside Baptist Church, Renee and I left early one hot July Sunday morning and drove to Tremonton to gather with the Lord’s people. We shared at the Lord’s Table together, sang and opened the word of God together. Through conversation with Nancy Nicholas after the service and later at lunch with Jim and Annette Williams I was able to share some of our gospel work God has called Eastside Baptist to in Haiti, they asked if they could begin collecting school supplies for our school.
Yesterday, I received a phone call from Jim, an elder at Bear River Valley Baptist Church, asking if they could bring me the supplies they have for our upcoming trip. Of course I said “sure, thank you.”

Here is a picture of Jim, his wife Annette, and a deacon Jerry today (June 25, 2015). Jim called me at about 11:30am this morning asking if we could meet them at the airport for lunch. I picked Renee up for lunch and to get the supplies. May the Lord bless His kind people at Bear River Valley Baptist Church.

Annette, Jim, Jerry

Because they are Necessary, Use Words

Posted on January 14, 2015Leave a comment

This past week I’ve been back at New Horizon Home with our 33 girls. By the grace of God, I traveled with 7 other people from Twin Falls, and Boise, Idaho and Amarillo, Texas.

Jesus warns that once a follower puts his hand to the plow he must keep his eyes on the prize, not looking back with regret or doubt (“No one, after putting his hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.” Luke 9:62). Oh that God would find us fit for harvest work.

In addition to taking supplies to teach the girls to knit and weave, clothing, school supplies, medical supplies and nutritional items; we both took printed word (New Testament in Haitian Creole) and spoke of the Gospel multiple times a day.

Following are a few pictures of the sojourners using words to speak of the glory of God and the necessary proclamation of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Speaking to the girls on Saturday night during their daily evening devotion.

Phillip, this is gonna be good! — this is gonna be good!

DSCN2069 — On the ride to the medical clinic

DSCN2101 — Our very own bearded gospel man. Always ready to give an answer for the joy given.

Able and willing to speak of her joy in Jesus at any moment

Update on New Horizon Home

Posted on September 2, 2014Leave a comment

By the grace of God and for the glory of His name I’m pleased to give you a short update of how God continues to turn ashes to beauty. It happens like this multiple times every month. We pray, asking God to supply all that is needed for New Horizon Home in Port-au-Prince and within days, moments, or even before we are done praying, God sends a messenger (usually the mail man) with news of provision. Last month alone, the Lord spoke to His people from Kansas, Texas, Idaho, and Utah. They heard the Lord’s leading in their life and their response was born from the very nature and character of the Lord Himself, with generosity and compassion.

Since moving into the new home the girls continue to grow healthy and strong. We now have more girls than ever before and the need for food, clothing and care increases. Because God knows of our needs before we even know to ask, he makes the need known to people near and far.

The new home still has needs and God kindly provides. Until last month the girls have all been sharing the same bathroom, we now have three toilets for the girls. This is a blessing that could easily be overlooked unless you were next in line. Bless the Lord, bless the Lord!

It is hard to put into words the gratitude I have toward the Lord. He hears our prayer, He moves the hearts of people, and my only reaction is of splendid joy and praise to the Lord. His outstretched arm is never too short. His love endures forever.

Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free. (Psalms 118:5 ESV)

NewHorizonHomePicture — The girls at New Horizon Home

A New House for New Horizon Home

Posted on April 15, 2014Leave a comment

It is hard to believe, at times, that just one year ago Eastside Baptist Church began her first overseas ministry post. We have surely been partnered with others who do similar work around the world. We have without a doubt been to many places in the past decade. But New Horizon International was first birthed from the painful experience God walked this faithful body of believers through over four years ago. For the past 12 months God has provided beyond what we could ask or imagine. There are 20 beautiful girls who trust God to provide for their needs at New Horizon Home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

We have paid a month-to-month rent to Mr. Touze, our landlord, for the past 12 months. He’s been very kind and generous. We pray that God will bless him and his ongoing business adventures.

The Lord’s people at Eastside Baptist Church have been faithfully following the Lord in this God sized ministry.

Late last week our director at New Horizon Home, Alex, signed paper work to begin taking possession of a permanent address. A place the girls will call home, God willing, as they grow in favor with Him. New Horizon Home will pay $5,000.00 per year for the coming 10 years for our new house. May the Lord show his faithfulness and glory with as much joy as he has these past 12 months. May his favor rest upon this home.

Here are a few photos of our new home. We are aiming at May 10, 2014 as our moving in day. There are a few mild repairs to be done and a lot of dusting and cleaning. But before long… this house will become home to our girls.

New Horizon Home (tBC005)

Posted on February 3, 2014Leave a comment

Today’s broadcast is a recorded interview with Alex Veillard, director of New Horizon Home in Port-au-Price, Haiti. Renee and I just returned from a trip to Port-au-Prince.

00:00 – Introduction
03:00 – A friendship born in adversity
08:43 – Why start New Horizon Home?
11:48 – the Schedule at New Horizon Home
22:15 – More information about New Horizon Home
26:25 – Singing

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A Report of God’s Faithfulness

Posted on January 16, 2014Leave a comment

Today, I post for the purpose to encourage the Lord’s people.

As I approach the anniversary date of a most spectacular season in my life four years ago. I want to show you evidence of the Lord’s provision of a work he began during a most unsuspecting encounter with danger.

No one would have planned our gospel engagement in Haiti the way God did. We would have planned it in a way that would have been comfortable, easy and I’m sure would have appeased the worldly man. Then we would have mapped out a financial plan that would likely not include much faith at all.

For the past several years I have been invited to speak in various places about those God ordained days. Now, by the leading of God, Eastside Baptist Church, a simple church by the world’s standard, has begun a journey of faith that was never expected by us when we said yes to the invitation to go. In 2013, the Lord called Eastside Baptist to plant a church, open a girls home, and partner with other gospel driven people as we put our hand to the plow of sowing the fields of the souls of men (in this case 20 girls in Port-au-Prince and a neighborhood with no gathering for believers) with the gospel.

In 2013, Eastside Baptist Church asked God to help us. This people, known to few, believed God calling them to plant a church and establish a girls home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. This, in spite of tight financial restraints. There were a few months when our regular operating budget would fall short, a month where payroll was delayed for 5 days, and a deadline to the city of Twin Falls with more of our building project was met as we continued to build debt free.

Our first step was to ask God for help… Even with a tight, and sometimes short financial budget, we adjusted our budget in mid year to include $200.00 a month to give to the church planting work and girls home.

Our next step was to ask God for help… We knew that $200.00 was not enough to cover all of the needed expenses. We Asked God to provide $1,225.00 per month from outside of our budget to start the work. We committed to not ask anyone for help but God. In doing so, God has given us many opportunities to talk about His work as people and churches call and write for more information. We are always pleased to speak of God’s work. Toward the end of our first month, we were $90 short of the needed $1,225.00. With one day left in the month, tempted to ask and spread the word to men, I closed my office door in fear that I had not heard properly from the Lord. As I wept and cried out to God for help, the church treasurer came to the office to prepare the check, she checked the money box in the office and there was a check for New Horizon Home for $100.00. The Lord had already prepared and answered our need. My faith has been increased.

Our next step was to ask God for help… The discovery of medical needs for the girls began to become evident as some were diagnosed with tuberculosis, dental needs for their failing teeth, nourishment for their fragile bodies from neglect and endangerment began to surface. These were no surprise to God, but not part of our financial plan. Even though it was established in faith, it was evident that our faith was still too small. As we asked God for more and above each month, he always provided.

Our next step was to ask God for help… In October, after returning from Haiti, we found that we were still needing to include more toward the growing needs. Now the questions of education and ongoing care for the girls would require us to once again increase our faith and establish a budget of $2,250.00 per month. Keep in mind that our operating budget within our church was still only $200.00. (We couldn’t even afford the $200.00 per month without God.) The temptation was high to send letters to churches and people we know asking for help. But we remained steadfast by the power of God to plead our case before the Almighty. So we asked God for help…

Our next step is to ask God for help… Since beginning in April with $200.00, to $1,225.000, to $2,250.00 per month, God has met ALL needs.

It’s a good thing that IRS requires churches to give financial receipts to people who give to churches.But for me, the most exciting part about addressing and stamping letters to those who have given to Eastside Baptist Church and New Horizon Home is a visual reminder of the kindness of God as I prepare to walk to the mail box.

My next steps this morning will be steps of joy and praise as these letters are actually to people who are not members/attenders of Eastside Baptist Church. They are going to individuals and churches in Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, and Idaho. They are people who have given one time or multiple times. They are people who respond to the prompting of God. This picture is a sacred picture. It represents, to me and the people of Eastside, a gracious God who moves an obedient people to do His glorious work. May the Lord be pleased, His church rejoice, the Gospel go forth, and His name be praised.

We follow God to the uttermost… Oh Lord, we believe! Now as we take the next step, help our unbelief.

Master Chef, Madam Jizlesn

Posted on November 22, 2013Leave a comment

There is a lot to say about a piece of art.

Silas Thompson Fine Art has just released a new 6×8 of Madam Jizlesn. The story of this master piece is a story of compassion. It is a story of suffering. It is a story of provision. It is a story of care. (like Silas Thompson Fine Art on Facebook)

But this kind of story doesn’t happen without pain and suffering from both the subject and the artist. Madam Jizlesn, is the master chef of New Horizon Home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She provides tasty, nutritious meals every day for 20 precious girls whose stories are also birthed in pain and suffering.

Madam Jizlesn doesn’t prepare meals in a controlled environment with ease of an electric or gas range. She prepares meals every day on the west side of the house in 90+ degree days on a charcoal burner. It is a pleasure to watch this master chef prepare the staples of life. The result of her labor? Satisfaction and increased health for 20 girls abandoned in a forgotten land.

Silas Thompson, a young man who follows his Lord at risk to life and/or reputation to obey his Maker’s demand. Not long ago this young follower of Christ left a controlled environment and ease of life and quickly found himself in the throws of a spiritual conundrum as the world watched and jeered.

This painting, like any good painting, will generate emotion, feeling, thought, and consideration for the observer, the subject, the owner and the painter. Maybe they will all think different things, but for this observer who knows the subject and painter, I call it a master piece.

Philippians 3:7-11
Yet every advantage that I had gained I considered lost for Christ’s sake. Yes, and I look upon everything as loss compared with the overwhelming gain of knowing Jesus Christ my Lord. For his sake I did in actual fact suffer the loss of everything, but I considered it useless rubbish compared with being able to win Christ. For now my place is in him, and I am not dependent upon any of the self-achieved righteousness of the Law. God has given me that genuine righteousness which comes from faith in Christ. How changed are my ambitions! Now I long to know Christ and the power shown by his resurrection: now I long to share his sufferings, even to die as he died, so that I may perhaps attain as he did, the resurrection from the dead. (Phillips)

New Horizon International Ministry Report

Posted on November 4, 2013Leave a comment

Sunday at 12:30 pm (Mountain Time) will be a report on New Horizon International. You can join us for this ministry report in person at Eastside Baptist Church in Twin Falls, Idaho or live streaming (if we can figure out the technology) via Google+ or YouTube. Contact me for information on how to find the live stream.

New Horizon Baptist Church

Posted on October 30, 20131 Comment

Hey Eastside Baptist Church, meet our extended family in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Silas, Bianca and I had the privilege of gathering with our new church plant while there last Sunday. We will share more on Sunday, November 10, 2013.

Posted on May 20, 20132 Comments

I’m excited to introduce you to New Horizon International. New Horizon International (NHI) is a new ministry born in the heart of a dear friend of mine, Alex Veillard. I first met Alex outside an orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 2010. Over the past nine years Alex and I have had many experiences together.

Our friendship began as a result of hardship. An gospel response to a natural disaster is what sent me to Haiti and it was a global media response to the false arrest of 10 Americans that sent Alex to minister to us when few were willing to even admit they knew us. These events were used of God to glue us together with the blood of Christ as brothers.

In the past few years many things have developed in our lives. Both of my sons have married, Alex has married, now has four sons, and now a common desire for the nations to hear the gospel has crossed our paths. This is New Horizon International.

NHI starts and finishes with the gospel. The gospel is the reason and purpose.

We are in the beginning days of developing New Horizon International. But in these early days, New Horizon International has already birth New Horizon Home. New Horizon Home is a children’s home for girls. Currently NHH has 60 girls. These girls are of those in Haiti who are at great risk. They have been abandoned or rescued from the early days of slavery and child trafficking.

Eastside Baptist Church in Twin Falls, Idaho has responded to the invitation from the Lord to partner with New Horizon International in obligations of rent, food, education, healthcare, and spiritual needs of these 60 girls. We are pleased to know that God who has invited us to join Him in this gospel work will provide all that is needed. May the Lord be pleased to find a man in Port-au-Prince, Haiti willing to obey Him. May the Lord be pleased to awaken 60 girls at New Horizon Home willing to trust Him. May the Lord be pleased to find a people in Twin Falls, Idaho willing to join Him in global gospel work. May the Lord be pleased as we all find our joy in Him.

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