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The Jewel of my Christmas Season

1/2/2013

Mark, my husband, and I served the community at a local church. I personally heard stories of a young single mother with her two children who were burned out of their home currently living at a motel supplied by the local Red Cross; a fifteen year old girl representing her family because her elderly grandmother was unable to come for assistance. I watched another single mother try to pacify three young children so that they could receive probably their one and only Christmas gift. The expressions on the faces and the mutual trust of our Lord Jesus Christ for provision and love was thrilling.

There were several men around my age, early sixies, who were obviously humbled my their inability to provide for their families; but, not so humiliated that they did not understand the need for a savior and speak grateful admission of their belief in Jesus.

The absolute honor of praying with and for these individuals presently suffering in the physical sense was staggering. The Lord knows the truth in each of our hearts and can use even my effort to further His Kingdom. The satisfaction and fulfillment of praying the "sinner's prayer" with several of these individuals made my Christmas Season!
I Samuel 16:7b "For the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."

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Nina Haines received her Bachelor of Science from the University Of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences in 1978. She completed her Masters and subsequently her Doctorate of Divinity from Shalom Bible College and Seminary in
August of 2010.

Nina voluntarily worked in the “Kairos Prison Ministry” for fourteen years and served on the local board. Mark, Nina’s husband and she served for five years in the “Second Chance Prison
Ministry”.

She has served on the worship and prayer ministries in five
different churches and on the ladies’ board at a non-denominational church. She has taught courses on prayer and
spiritual growth and in Sunday school classes. She was trained as a Stephen Minister at a large Methodist church and served as a prayer minister. She served as the praise leader at a weekly prayer and healing service for one year.

She was a member and leader in Lydia Fellowship International and served on the “Walk to Emmaus” and “Faith Walk” retreat
organizations.

She was a chaplain at her local YMCA in a pilot
chaplaincy program. She was on the board of a local prayer ministry, Celebrate Life.

Mark and Nina have been favored by the Lord to make four short term prayer walks to Israel and China. In several different organizations Nina has prayer walked Germantown High School, the University of Memphis, Germantown, Seattle, Washington, Washington D.C., Atlana, Gerogia, Nashville, Tennessee, and Chicago, Illinois.

Mark and Nina currently worship at City Hills Church. Mark and Nina hold services once a month at Morgan County Correctional Complex under Lonnie Greg from Trinity Community Church. Nina has a prayer group in her home the second and fourth Fridays of the month following the Christian Healing Ministries of Jacksonville, Florida under the leadership of Francis and Judith MacNutt.

Robert Anthony Haines is a structural engineer and
resides with his wife, Erin in Knoxville, Tennessee. They welcomed Grady Armistead and Coley Marie into their family January 28, 2017.

Mark and Nina live in Knoxville with Grace Jon's first cat.

Nina completed the Christian Healing Ministries Internship Program Nov. 7-11, 2017.

"An Odyssey of Deepening Prayer and Praise" is completed and under copyright. It is a 365 day devotional book of insight from the Lord.

The Jewel of my Christmas Season

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