HAITI Update ~ A note from Greg Prairie, Executive Director

February 1, 2010 ~ The devastation in Haiti continues as relief efforts remain very difficult and challenging.  Many people around the immediate area of Port au Prince have yet to receive any aid.  We have joined together with a pastor, Rev. Roger Wilson Charles, from the Eglise Communion De La Manna Evangelique D'Haiti, WI (Manna Fellowship Evangelical Church of Haiti, WI), a non-denominational, Bible teaching church in Petionville, which is about 20 minutes outside of Port au Prince.  Pastor Wilson and his 1100+ member congregation have planted 6 satellite churches, with schools, in some of the most remote and impoverished areas of the country.  Three weeks after the earthquake there has still not been any U.S. Military presence in this area, and the only aid that has arrived has been air dropped by helicopters which becomes a free-for-all and very chaotic. 

The needs among this congregation were mind-boggling before the earthquake.  Now, with such turmoil, injury and damage, they desperately need our help.  Their 3-story church building is still standing, but was severely damaged in the earthquake and is no longer safe for them to return to. Many people are still scattered and most have lost their homes.  Their satellite churches need supplies, food, wells drilled, etc.  There were plans to build an orphanage before the earthquake in one of the locations, which now has become an absolute necessity.  We are committed to providing as many resources as possible to assist Pastor Wilson in meeting the needs of his congregation.

We are currently making plans to send a group team in May, as well as a college aged team in July to assist Pastor Wilson.  We are also working out details on how to send him much needed finances.  Won’t you pray with us about how YOU can be a part of God’s work in rebuilding what so many have lost through this overwhelming disaster? “May God encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word.” 2 Thes. 2:17  

If you would like further information about any of our teams going to Haiti, please contact us at haitirelief@touchtheworld.org.  If you would like to contribute financially towards the relief and rebuilding, please send your check payable to "Touch the World" to: Touch the World Ministries, 1 Maple Street, Allendale, NJ 07401 ATT: HAITI Relief

Isaiah 43: 18-19
"Forget the former things; do not dwell in the past.

See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?

I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland." (NIV)