Number one, I want to be very, very clear with everybody out there. Very clear. I'm not here for the needs of the Haitians. I'm not here to empower them. I'm here to give them Jesus Christ who will give them eternal life, which is a lot better than what I can give them. I want to be very clear about that. First and foremost, it's the gospel. But like I said, they need to be alive to hear the word. So when I went to the mountains, I saw such a huge need. I was the first white guy they'd ever seen. We got 20 missions in town and none up there. Now, to give you an idea, we go up at that time on my motorcycle for two and a half hours, and then we had another three hour donkey ride to get to this area. They had never seen a missionary. And the primary religion, if you want to call it religion, It's voodoo. It's not a religion. It's a cult. 95% of the mountain people practice voodoo. They don't even know anything about Jesus because there's never been a missionary up there. So when I went to the schools, the director, Emil, had said, Tony, we have a big problem. We can't pay the teachers. At that time, the teachers were making $15 a month, U.S. But because of this country with all its disasters, the droughts, the hurricanes, the earthquakes, they couldn't pay the teachers. The people that send their kids to school are supposed to pay for that, but they're so poor they couldn't. And God led me up there. And I'm listening to the teachers complain about not getting paid, not getting paid, and I said, hmm. All right, I said, okay, I can see a need here. They need to be paid. But I can see a bigger need. I mean, I want these kids to have an education, but I'm into a higher education. So I was really taken back when I asked the children about Jesus. And I asked them, do you know Jesus? And they were like, who's that? And they said, do you mean Jab? And it's the first time I heard Jab. And I asked the mayor's director, I said, Jab, I said, what is Jab? Oh, Tony, that's the devil. That's the devil in Creole. And I said, well, why are they saying that? He said, Tony, you're in the land of voodoo. And I go, voodoo? I didn't even really know about it. He said, these people all practice voodoo. They don't know the Lord. And I just right instantly, I said, now I know why you got me up here, Lord. So the deal was, what I would do is pay the teachers, but first and foremost, the kids had to hear the gospel every morning before they started school. So at 9 o'clock, 8 o'clock, they heard a Bible story. And it would be 20 or 30 minutes long, and they heard Daniel and the Lions, Jonah and the Whale, and so on. And that is how I started to disciple the mountain kids. Now, the problem with the mountains is there's a lot of difficulties. Number one was fighting the voodoo, you know, because the voodoo people didn't want to hear about this Jesus. The parents were mad that this is being taught at the school. They got all all the voodoo people were mad They would come to the school. What is this? What's this jesus stuff? Well, what are we hearing my kids coming home and telling me about jesus and all they were complaining, you know But the teachers didn't mind because i'm paying them. I started to pay them. I gave them Actually were making ten dollars. I gave him a five dollar raise. So from the money I was making from the coffee sales I was paying the teachers and I told the parents their kids could come for free they wouldn't have to pay oh they loved it the teachers loved it you can come up here and do whatever you want so up here I got free rain but I had a real opposition from the voodoo people and they were mad at the at the school for doing that well you know what when the children went home they were different after about it took about a year and a half before I saw really good fruits but now these little children are going home And their voodoo parents are catching them praying in the morning. Praying at night. And they wanted to know what this was all about. The women, the mothers, were really curious. What are these kids doing? They noticed their kids weren't fighting with them anymore. They noticed their kids were actually listening to them. They weren't being desert, as they call it here. They weren't being crazy. They weren't going and stealing out of gardens anymore. And the mothers would ask them, and they would say, Oh, Jesus. He doesn't like us to do that. We're not going to do that. And I can remember because the Haitian people are very aggressive with their children. Life is so hard up there, they got to take it out on somebody and they take it out on their children. You can't imagine, they've never been loved. And they would be getting beaten. And they would say, I forgive you, mom. I'll never forget the testimony of the children. And so the mothers, they couldn't take it. I say mothers because the dads are gone all day. doing gardens. They're all farmers. And what happened was, the mother started to come to school in the morning. They wanted to see what was going on. I'll never forget it. And the school director, Emil came down, he said, Tony, I want you to come to the school tomorrow at eight o'clock in the morning. I want you to be there. I want you to see what's happening. And I said, okay. He had the donkeys waiting for us and I took my motorcycle up with the director of the mayor's office and we went up there and we rode up the donkeys and got to the top and the whole school was surrounded by women and I went whoa look out you get a pack of Haitian women together you don't go near that crowd you got the tiger by the tail but this was different and what they were doing was the mothers were looking through the boards They were looking through the books. These schools are like barns. I mean, you wouldn't even keep pigs in them, as Stephen is going to see tomorrow. And they were looking through the boards, and they were listening to Jonah and the Whale, Daniel and the Lions. And when I went into the school, the mothers actually had the books. And the mothers were holding the books, and the little kids were sitting there. The mothers had never heard this in their life. And it's Haitian culture. They don't read to their children. Don't ever think a Haitian child is tucked into bed and said good night. I love you never they work till they can't stay awake anymore And then they drop down into their bed, and they're up at 4 in the morning And they're walking two hours to get water before they go to school So I mean you can't imagine how wild these kids were Steven you can't imagine Yeah, they would throw stones at at each other. I mean, the mothers would whip them with barbed wire. I mean, we're talking 18-inch barbed wire, rigged right down the back of their little girl till the dress is ripped right off. The aggression here is unbelievable because, Stephen, we deal with good and evil, okay, our culture. We deal with good and evil. Not here. There's no such thing. Here, it's strength and weakness. Strength and weakness. What is strength in Haiti? Aggression. Loud. Fighting. What's weakness? Compassion. Love. Forgiveness. That's weak because in the voodoo circles everything is about power. Who's the most powerful man in the mountains? The witch doctor. He curses people. He kills the kids. He's got the power. They all want to be like him. And so these mothers are there and they're holding on and they're listening to these stories and the next thing you know the mothers are getting saved because of children's books. And to give you an idea, 70% of the mountain people can't read or write. So you can't give them a book without reading it to them because they can't read it, but they love the colored pictures, you know. Next thing you know, the moms are getting saved. They're going home. They're talking to the husband. The husbands are mad. They're coming to school. What are you going to teach my kid about this? And boom, before you know it, they're coming to the Lord. The little kids actually got their folks saved. And then after that, We had to build a church. I don't even plant churches. What I like to do is equip the Haitians so they'll plant their own church. I'm not a church planter, but we had to because I had the school full. We turned the school into church on Sunday, but it was full and we planted our first church. It was just unbelievable. All through Daniel and the Lions, little kids books. And I knew that's why God had me up there. And that's how we reached the mountain people, through those little books. Through those little books. It's amazing.