Last Year we were able to purchase a rice field for the ‘Miracle Haven Children’s Home’. The rice fields and Fish ponds are aimed at a level of self sufficiency which will allow us to increase the quality of diet in our home, as well as allowing us to provide more care to the widows and children without having to increase sponsorship levels.

Here are pictures of the Children drying the first harvest. This rice will assist with supplementing the food cost in the home, as well as being distributed to the poor in the surrounding villages.


The southern Philippines had 17 typhoons pass through last season, however the crop was still enough for the needs...


We have just purchased a second field for rice and vegetable gardens, the first crops should go in the ground in the next few months.


Our fish ponds are now complete. The home will be able to produce several thousand fish at a time.



OUR NEW JUNIOR SCHOOL is being built. This is a great outreach as we will have access to the homes of 120 students, mostly from un-churched backgrounds.


The Facility must be open for the beginning of the school year in July. We have begun the work of renovating the old buildings however need help with finances for the re-build and fit out. We estimate that it will cost 30,000 dollars to complete everything… Please contact us if there is any way you can help…

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James 2:14-18
“What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but doesn’t have works?
Can faith (alone) save him?
If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food
and one of you says to them “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled” but you do not
give them the things which are needed for the body, what does that profit?
In the same way also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
But someone will say “You have faith, and I have works”.
Show me your faith without works, and I WILL SHOW YOU MY FAITH BY MY WORKS”.
 
THE PROBLEM OF “DEAD FAITH”
 
Can faith be dead? Can spiritual truths become “dead”? Yes. 2 Cor 3:6 says that “The letter KILLS, but the Spirit gives LIFE”.
Even the most glorious truths from the Word of God can become religious and legalistic.
Faith also, without the Spirit and without genuine expression can become lifeless and nothing more than a religious bondage.
I’ve met people who will argue over doctrine, but have never met the need of others! Never told another soul about Jesus! Never taken a basket of food to a desperately needy neighbour. I consider this to be “Dead Faith” (faith without works is dead). Not that we sit in judgement of one another. But James had definitely got sick and tired of the self- righteous attitude of his day.

 
Living Faith is pro-active. A manifestation of the love of God in us.  “Faith working by love.” Galatians 5:6.
 
So we give evidence that we stand in faith BY LOVE AT WORK THROUGH US. This privilege is so easily missed in this present age where faith becomes the method to get what we want!
We are often taught to express “faith” to become wealthy or privileged above others.
Faith is God’s way of using us to BLESS. To resource us with enough of God’s supply to express His great love.
Do you have that kind of faith?
 
Authentic faith expresses Christ. He is the foundation stone of faith and the pattern of the “new man” that we all should become in Him.
As we express authentic faith, it is as though Christ is being expressed through us, to the world. (1John 4:17) (2Cor5:17-21). God working through us.
 
So why not live the best faith?  The authentic faith. That faith which lives to express the love of God to all.
As for me, I will show you my faith by my works.
 
This is a foundation stone. This is authentic faith.
 
Your friend and brother,
 
Steve