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Haiti Earthquake Relief

THANK you for your generous gifts to the Haiti Relief Fund. Needs continue. All funds donated in January through EBM for Haiti Relief has been sent on for the work that is right now going on at Double Harvest. 

Currently additional February funds are going down with EBM missionary Pierre Cadet who is in Port au Prince working with the church in developing a plan to help meet the needs of the congregation while also ministering the love of Jesus to those in need around them. 

On January 12, 2010 the earth shook, buildings crumbled and tens of thousands of men, women, and children lost everything, and some even lost their lives in and around Port au Prince, the Capitol city of Haiti. Over the years, EBM has developed some very strong partnerships in the ongoing ministry in Haiti. These partnerships are now effective avenues by which to direct aid to the enormous devastation and resulting needs that the recent earthquake have caused.

One such partnership is the ministry of Double Harvest which has been operating in Haiti for many years. It has become a center for evangelism through agriculture, greenhouses,  an elementary school and as well as a vocational school and a clinic/hospital. Double Harvest occupies a compound of 200 acres about 10 miles east of Port-au-Prince. For nearly 20 years, EBM has worked closely alongside this strategic ministry, providing personnel, teams from churches etc. To learn more about the Double Harvest Project, visit http://www.doubleharvest.org/ 

Double Harvest is well situated to have a strategic impact in the relief efforts that will at the same time communicate the love of Christ. There are right now on site:

  • Generators to supply 20,000 watts of electricity;
  • Water pumping capacity of 400 gallons per minute;
  • Heavy duty equipment: tractors; front loaders; back hoe;
  • Buildings to house people and provide recovery after surgeries;
  • Currently medical teams rotating in and out of Double Harvest from various hospitals in the US

Much of the medical, food, and water needs of the local community surrounding Double Harvest have been and are being addressed.  Double Harvest is also supplying potable water from their wells to points in Port-au-Prince. Click to see pictures of the help that is going on now at Double Harvest click here

In Port-au-Prince, EBM missionaries who have led the church there have reported minimal damage to the church and to some of the church members’ properties.  Presently EBM missionary Pierre Cadet is Port au Prince working with the church in developing a plan to help meet the needs of the congregation while also ministering the love of Jesus to those in need around them. 

PRAY for our Haitian brothers and sisters.  PRAY for the witness of the Gospel to be clear and that Haitians would look to Christ for salvation, help, and hope.  

A fund has been set up at EBM for HAITI relief.  Designate online giving to  050027 "Haiti Relief Fund"   Click on GIVE for on-line giving with your credit/debit card. 

Checks can also be sent to EBM, PO Box 781438, Indianapolis IN 46278, designated for 050027 "Haiti Relief Fund."  For additional information or to learn about opportunities to work in Haiti, contact rhudson@ebm.org 


 

 

SPECIAL NOTE:  A team from Purdue University has travelled to Haiti for the past 16 years.  The team shares the love of Jesus with Haitians by working alongside them in various work projects on the Double Harvest Project and in the village, Coupon, which surrounds the Double Harvest project.  This May a team is forming to go to Haiti to build (rebuild) Homes for Haiti. 

EBM campus missionary Marty Dittmar serves as a Chaplain for the Purdue sports teams.  He  will be leading 2 teams of athletes who want to share Christ's love and their "muscle" to help.  You can help by giving online  to Purdue Haiti Team ( account # 041111) or by sending your check to EBM, PO Box 781438, Indianapolis, IN 46278.