Ministry Update

Cindy and I, along with Leah and Kayla, thank you for your faithful prayers during what has been a very trying time. Cindy’s health battle has been really tough. First, she contracted TB. She’s been treated and is now cured. However, she is now being treated for degenerative disk disease, bulging disks, and fibromyalgia. And then there’s the ongoing problem of melanoma.  Cindy is going to continue to need medical care here in the U.S.

Through all of this, God has shown me that we should make the U.S. our base of ministry operations. God has confirmed this in our hearts in so many ways, it is amazing!

The orphanage has been transferred to the direction of fellow missionaries, Drs. Leo and Mary Tago. The children are in excellent care. If you are supporting orphans, we can still continue to forward your help on to Cambodia for their care.  The same goes for supporting church planters in Cambodia. 

We will now be working with indigenous Native American Indians . We trust that you will continue to support us as we continue to serve our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Sometimes we wonder why things happen the way they do, but it’s during those times we truly learn what Romans 8:28 means!  We put a lot of hard work into Cambodia, seeing over 2,000 souls saved in our ministries, not to mention the over 10,000 we’ve witnessed come to Christ through the cooperative efforts of our missionaries in youth camps, conferences, and sports outreach programs!  We will miss Cambodia.  Please continue to pray for us and continue to support us as we take the gospel to a neglected people group right here in our own backyard:  The tribes of Native North American Indians. 

Why Native America?

Some may ask, “Why Native America?” God makes no mistakes.  As the Bible says, “This is the Lord’s doing: it is marvellous in our eyes.”

Isaac McCoy, Baptist missionary of the 1800s, took the gospel to the Potawatomi Indians in Indiana and Michigan.  My relatives were saved under his ministry at the Carey Mission.  He lead them to Kansas and Oklahoma.  

Billy Haas, born in Shawnee, Oklahoma.

I grew up around Native Americans as a young boy in Oklahoma,  Witnessing alcoholism firsthand in the lives of some uncles placed a burden on my heart for their spiritual plight. 

Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma

I am a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma.  Through God’s Word, the leading of the Holy Spirit, the peace of God, and a series of events that God brought to pass, we believe that God has called us to take the gospel to our Native people in North America.  An urgent need was presented to me by Bro. Bob Williams regarding the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.  I will be working with and assisting him in the Choctaw mission for at least one year.  During that time, we will continue to pray and seek the Lord’s will about future work among Native Americans.

The Spiritual Need of Our Native Peoples

Many Native Americans are leaving their reservations in search of jobs and a future in our nation’s megacities.  There are almost 100,000 Native Americans in Los Angeles, California.  There are over 40,000 in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex.  Other cities with large Native populations include:  Denver, Phoenix, Minneapolis-St.Paul, Chicago, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Seattle, Portland, Houston, San Diego, and San Antonio. 

We need your continuing prayers and support more than ever before!  We have the call of God, years of experience, and the approval of our pastor and sending church.  Please continue to help us get God’s truth to the spiritually-darkened world of Native America!

In Christ,

The Haas Family

Billy, Cindy, Leah, and Kayla