Saturday, April 11, 2015
Shooting Today
It has been a quiet couple of weeks with shootings. Today, at around 1:00pm we heard 3 gun shots. We rushed out to the street to see who had been shot. A man had been shot 3 times, had tried to run away and collapsed on our street. He was still breathing. We put him in the back of the pickup truck and rushed him to Bernard Mevs Hospital. Unfortunately, once the medical personnel had moved him into triage he had already died. He had a gunshot wound in his chest, left side and left elbow. The doctors think that the gunshot to the chest hit his aorta. We searched his body and found an id card with the name Orlando Cesar. The police came and sent a justice of the peace to the hospital. We had to make a report at the police station. People are scared. Nobody will say anything to the police about what happened today, making it difficult for them to do their job. Pray for the family of Orlando Cesar and for security in the Delmas 31 area.
Friday, April 10, 2015
Delmas 31 Ravine - Wall Demolition - April 7
Tuesday was when the most work was done. 40 young men were hard at work busting up the wall. Church on the Rock put a work crew together to work at preparing a foundation for a new retaining wall. It has been a blessing that we have had no major rainstorms this week. Church on the Rock is a large church led by an American missionary, Jay Threadgill. In a plea put out by their church in a news article they estimate the repair costs at 100,000 US$. The Haitian people have a strong Christian faith. Churches are full on Easter mornings. In the article the Sunday church attendance was 8,000 people. In spite of all the damage people still worshipped the day that Jesus arose from the tomb. Please keep the repair work in prayer.
Church On The Rock - Brevard Missionaries To Haiti Seek Help
The latest crisis hit last week. A strong rainfall on Easter Eve posed a new threat to Church on the Rock at Delmas 31 where the couple serve as senior ministers.
Since the Threadgills began their ministry at the church it has grown from six people to a weekly attendance of more than 6,000 people, the couple said. They also run the adjacent Morning Star Christian Academy.
“We had a huge rain. Inches and inches in a very short period of time. Flash flooding was everywhere in the city,” Jay Threadgill said. “Water was running through our campus until it was four feet high. Then the unimagined happened. The rivers of water undermined our retaining wall at the church, washing away half the wall and almost taking the new building. Never in a million years did I ever think that wall would go, but it did.”
Despite the damage, more than 8,000 came to worship Easter morning, Threadgill said.
Now, he said they need immediate help to secure and reinforce the church building, and are seeking donations.
Pastor Don Luszczewski of Palm Bay serves as communications director for Threadgill’s Fishers of Men Haiti Ministries. He was in Port au Prince during the initial rebuilding of the church which was destroyed during the 2010 earthquake. Luszczewski also spent time in Port au Prince this spring. He described the situation as urgent.
An engineer has been contracted to assist and meetings have been held with specialists to preserve the retaining wall. Workers have begun shoring up the building to hold it until further work can be done.
Threadgill estimated the cost at around $100,000.
How to Help
Donors can participate in the online You Care fundraiser at http://www.youcaring.com/emergency-fundraiser/emergency-church-repairs-in-port-au-prince-haiti/333564.
Donations can also be sent to the Fishers of Men Haiti stateside office: P.O. Bx. 410953, Melbourne, FL. 32941 or you can give via PayPal on our web site, www.fomhaiti.org.
Since the Threadgills began their ministry at the church it has grown from six people to a weekly attendance of more than 6,000 people, the couple said. They also run the adjacent Morning Star Christian Academy.
“We had a huge rain. Inches and inches in a very short period of time. Flash flooding was everywhere in the city,” Jay Threadgill said. “Water was running through our campus until it was four feet high. Then the unimagined happened. The rivers of water undermined our retaining wall at the church, washing away half the wall and almost taking the new building. Never in a million years did I ever think that wall would go, but it did.”
Despite the damage, more than 8,000 came to worship Easter morning, Threadgill said.
Now, he said they need immediate help to secure and reinforce the church building, and are seeking donations.
Pastor Don Luszczewski of Palm Bay serves as communications director for Threadgill’s Fishers of Men Haiti Ministries. He was in Port au Prince during the initial rebuilding of the church which was destroyed during the 2010 earthquake. Luszczewski also spent time in Port au Prince this spring. He described the situation as urgent.
An engineer has been contracted to assist and meetings have been held with specialists to preserve the retaining wall. Workers have begun shoring up the building to hold it until further work can be done.
Threadgill estimated the cost at around $100,000.
How to Help
Donors can participate in the online You Care fundraiser at http://www.youcaring.com/emergency-fundraiser/emergency-church-repairs-in-port-au-prince-haiti/333564.
Donations can also be sent to the Fishers of Men Haiti stateside office: P.O. Bx. 410953, Melbourne, FL. 32941 or you can give via PayPal on our web site, www.fomhaiti.org.
Team Broken Earth - "Solitary Sparks"
Team Broken Earth from Canada does great work here in Haiti. They have helped us out with a few surgeries at Bernard Mevs Hospital. The next team arrives April 19th. We hope that a couple more of our patients will get selected for a surgery. Please keep their efforts in prayer. Here is a video of their team in action at Bernard Mevs Hospital.
Karen
Karen
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Flooding - Tabarre
Monday was a cleanup day on the streets of Port-au-Prince which had been flooded. Canals, full of garbage overflowed onto the streets and into people's homes. Tabarre for the last few years has had floods even during minor rainstorms. Drainage is not prepared for very well. The canals that are there are full of garbage. People living near the large drainage project by the State Vehicle Insurance company vented their frustrations by erecting barricades of burning tires. The project is not finished yet. The Haitian news said that the government is preparing to take back private land for the canal to be finished. A half-finished drainage canal doesn't work. The CIMO riot police put out the burning tires and spent the day on-site to stop people from barricading the Tabarre Road. Near the burning tire site is the MOD supercentre. It is great to see larger businesses set up stores in Haiti. This was the first time we were there and we went through the store looking at what was available. On the way back home we hit a major traffic jam snarl at the Clercine intersection. We had to divert and find another way home. Backhoes were at work removing mud from the road. These photos show the situation in Tabarre.
Flooding - Video
Here is some video footage of this weekends flooding. The poorest people here in Haiti live very sad living conditions. These sewer canals are already full and when it rains they overflow and flood surrounding areas. The worst hit area was in Cite Soleil. Please keep the people of Cite Soleil in prayer.
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Wall Demolition - Easter Monday
Wall Demolition - Easter Monday. Navals' work team got to work on the wall. We sent food and drinking water for the workers. Some women in the ravine cooked the food. People in the ravine spent time cleaning out their homes that had been flooded and drying out things in the sun. It was good to see demolition work being started.
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