Submitted by Philip Lykes

Haven of Hope Teammate

The greatest joy to us is to

share the fruit God blesses
us with as we serve the
families of Ukraine. We
thank you for your dedicat-
ed prayers and support that
open opportunities to share
Gospel and hope with the
families of our country in Volume 8, Issue 5 June 30, 2018
spite of war in the East of
Ukraine, divorces, fights Letter from Mark
and misunderstandings.

Our last semester was dedi- $$$ & Sense

cated to learning to mentor
In 2008 Pat & I believed, and still do, that the Lord called us to
for married couples. We
noticed that mentoring is serve the “Worker Couples” living in Turkey. The Lord
one of the most effective was gracious to us and made raising support very easy
methods of-
sharng the gospel and because of the relationships that Mark formed with
building, spiritual move- churches in Austin and, Cedar Park, Texas. We began
ments among families.
This year we brought a new our journey in Jan of 2009 with 5-supporting church-
resource to Ukraine that es and a $10,000-dollar individual donation. We
offers healing to broken
marriages. The Great Com- lived in a small home in Turgutreis, Turkey for 10-
mandment message, pre- months of the year from Jan 2009 to July of 2012. We
sented by Haven of Hope,
resource is a powerful went home for the holidays in November and December
course that we provided to to spend time with our family. During the 10-month pe-
families of pastors and
church leaders during the
riod, we averaged serving two couples per month in our
first weekend of April. We home. A couple would travel, at their expense, from
were happy to serve 20 cou-
ples from 8 regions of
their home and stay with us 4-nights. We provided a
Ukraine. Unfortunately room and meals and 3-full days of what we refer to as a
70% of church leaders do
not live in peace with their
“Marriage Intensive” at no cost to the couple. At the
spouses. There’s a lot of very most, we would average serving 2-couples per
emotional, verbal, spiritual month or 1-couple a month and a 2-day Marriage Work-
and even physical abuse in
Christian families. And shop at a church in Turkey. In 2010 we received anoth-
Ukrainian churches are not er $10,000 donation from a couple that we helped work
able to provide support to
such families. Intimate Life through infidelity before we departed to Turkey.
resource was translated
from English into Ukraini-
an and is designed to heal
relationships among hus-
bands and wives. Our goal
is to serve 100 couples who
go through difficult circum-
stances till the end of the
year of 2018.
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When we returned home our plan was to return to return to Turkey for 2-months each year, and to begin to
contact Mission sending agencies one of which is in Richardson Texas.
2013 2-couples joined our team as we traveled to Adana, Hatay, Ankra, and Sakantepi, Turkey.
2014 established a home base in Selcuk, Turkey. We rented St. John’s, 5-bedroom, House for 8-weeks serv-
ing 20-couples .
2015 St. John’s House 16-couples served
2016 St. John’s House 18-couples served,
2016 Air B & B Romania served 12 Family Life Leader couples.
2016 Hotel in Romania Served 2 Romanian Church Leaders.
2017 Hotel in Antalya, 7-Couples Served, Sibu, Romania, Cluj, Romania
Zagreb, Croatia 15-Couples served
2018 Hotel in Istanbul, 10- couples served
2018 Kiev, Ukraine 17-Family Life couples served, Portoroz, Slovenia 20- Family Life couples served.

We have been blessed to have couples with a heart to serve married couples both home and abroad join our
team. We now have 5-couples that are trained and accredited by Intimate Life Ministries in Cedar
Park, TX.
2 couples have lived in Tukey 20-plus years, and 1 of the couples are taking the marriage resources to the
Turkish Church.
1 couple have been in private practice for over 30-years and live in Michigan and serve couples in their
home since retiring from their practices last year.
1- couple lives in Florida and serve couples from their home.
1-couple lives in Austin, TX. Prior to returning to Austin, TX, they served with Family Life in Budapest,
Hungary and are the connection to Eastern Europe.
1-couple lives in Cedar Park, TX , They serve in Relational Care Ministry at Northwest Fellowship.
1 couple from Hong Kong was able to shadow me in Istanbul for 3-consecutive weeks in March 2018. They
have a desire to become accredited to teach in Hong Kong.
All our Mentor/Facilitator couples pay for their own travel expense and lodging.
1- couple has paid the expense for food and lodging of one of the Eastern Europe Intensives for the past 3-
years.
Between 2012 & the end of 2016 we have lost 4 out of 5 supporting churches.
In 2016 Haven of Hope received a $5,000 grant, because a missionary couple that we offered a “Marriage In-
tensive to said they would write a grant request.
Last year as I prayed about the output of money verses income, I heard the Lord say that you have enough
money in the bank for this year. It has been an exciting journey since we began in 2009.
What does not make Sense is that the $$$ support for Haven of Hope has dropped from our major donors even
though we have served more couples abroad since our return to the U.S than we did during the time we
lived in Turkey with the exception of our home church and the faithful, 6-10 friends that have supported
Haven of Hope since day 1. I feel like we are at a critical place financially for planning for 2019. The first
thing we ask you to do is pray for $$$. Second, we have lived in AZ for 8-months, and if you know of
Churches that would love to partner with a ministry like ours, please give us any suggestions and an intro-
duction if possible. If you know of any Grant writers that could help us, please let us know. Lastly if you
have any suggestion, please feel free to email mjuarez45@live.com. Thank you.
 Marriage Intensive in Nova Scotia!
This month we flew to Nova Scotia to do a Marriage Inten-
sive with a couple working in the bush with the Acadian peo-
ple It is a hard yet rewarding mission field for them. We left
them with some new communication tools and feel we have
made some great friends.

We now have a Website if you would like to

maybe share with others.
havenofhopeinternational.org
Contributions can be made to:
Haven of Hope
Also for your convenience anyone can go online
13427 Pond Springs Rd. Austin, TX.
78729 to make a donation.
Or Online Donations 1. Go to this link http://
1. Go to this link http:// www.northwestfellowship.com/ media-
www.northwestfellowship.com/
media-center
center
2. Select Give on Line 2. Select Give on Line
3. Go to drop down box and select
Haven of Hope.
3. Go to drop down box and select
Haven of Hope. Haven of Hope.
mjuarez45@live.com
patjuarez1@live.com
U.S.A. Phone Number!
512/573-8400 Mark