Haiti Update July 2010

A few weeks ago, we shared with you a very pressing need – many of our brothers and sisters in the churches in Haiti were still without food and basic necessities.  After speaking with Pastor Wilner Louissaint, who oversees the churches there, we felt a good solution would be to find a vehicle that we could fill with food and supplies and ship it directly to Haiti.  We were excited to hear that Pastor David Triplett and the Eagle Bend Apostolic Church of Clinton, TN were willing to donate a school bus for this effort.  A young man from Pastor Triplett’s church drove the bus from Tennessee to Miami.  I met Pastor Louissaint in Miami and we took the bus to a wholesale food distributor where we filled it to capacity with rice, beans and other supplies.  Pastor Louissaint and I then drove the bus to the port in Miami where we made arrangements for the bus and its contents to be shipped directly to Petit Guave.

The bus should be arriving in Haiti any day now.  After the food and supplies are distributed, Pastor Louissaint and the churches will get a lot of great use out of the school bus.

Thank you so much for your support and prayers.  We appreciate all the ALJC churches and pastors who made this part of our relief effort possible.

I just received word today that a team from Global Panel Solutions will be arriving in Haiti this week to begin construction of Phase 1 of the rebuilding of the Petit Guave church facility.  GPS has agreed to donate both the material and labor to rebuild the headquarters facility.  This is a tremendous answer to prayer and will be a huge blessing to the people of Haiti.  When completed, the building will not only have space for the church, but also space for a medical clinic, community training center and school.   We will keep you updated as to how the construction process is going.