Barbie’s Evangelistic Program Updates: God on the Move in Haiti
Posted By Amy Wolf on July 22, 2010
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Dr. Bob’s July 2010 Report
Posted By Amy Wolf on July 20, 2010
Gentlefolk:
It is now roughly six months (27 weeks)post-earthquake in Haiti. Millions of dollars of aid are at long last pouring steadily into the country for ongoing relief efforts through USAID, UNICEF, WHO, Red Cross and literally hundreds of other smaller organizations;( most of which are faith-based as is our own MOL). And yet, it is a frustrating and baffling fact that many warehouses of these various missions are jam-packed with items the suffering populace are in terrible need of, but somehow are not being efficiently distributed. I’m here to tell you that our warehouse at Jolivert was virtually emptied within two weeks of the boat’s arrival with tons of donated and purchased relief items. Across the country food programs are still hugely in need, as are rebuilding projects, temporary shelters, and medical interventions from a variety of sources. Many of the volunteer medical personnel have gone home and left Haiti with a crucial shortage of desperately needed health care. As I mentioned in an earlier report, our clinic at Jolivert has become a staging center for many of these efforts and our staff is busily serving ever-growing numbers of refugees and overburdened locals whose meager households have become overwhelmed with relatives and friends left homeless or jobless by the earthquake. What has become very clear is that widespread hunger and disease are still rampant throughout Haiti.
The good news is: MOL has played a crucial role in this terrible disaster by having provided tons of relief supplies; including several pallets of meals-ready-to-eat, medical supplies and dressings, and about 130,000 packaged meals for children. I have just ordered an additional 130,000 meals which will be distributed later on this summer, and if funds are provided, for months to come as the effects of the earthquake will be felt for months; even years ahead. Just yesterday a 2 ½ ton Army surplus truck (donated by the kind folks at Crossroads Church in Evansville, IN) arrived on the dock at Gonaives. It’s packed to the brim with additional tents and tarps and assorted other relief supplies including thousands of garden seed for the local farmers. This truck will be leaving for Port-au-Prince right away where we continue to employ our dwindling earthquake-related funds in several areas of need. I’m also pleased to report that MSPP (the Haitian ministry of health) has provided our clinic with a full-time physician with the fiat that we pay a portion of her salary. Our share will be $300 US per month. We are also in full partnership with the MSPP nowadays with HIV/AIDS testing and ongoing immunizations, and will receive much help from WHO and others with lab supplies and testing materials. Betty (my wife, an RN and chief operational officer for the mission) will be leading a surgical team during October to perform many hernia repairs and other elective surgical procedures for the first time ever at Jolivert. I also spoke by phone today with a Navy lieutenant aboard the USS Iwo Jima who informs me that a large Navy medical team will soon come ashore at Port-de-Paix (only 20 miles north of our clinic) to make a huge medical intervention in that area. So please be assured the work goes on, God is still in charge, and I can see a much brighter future for Haiti emerging from the rubble of this horrible catastrophe one day.
On the evangelical scene, we’re supporting our group of Haitian men evangelists, the Soldat Valiant, in their efforts to build a new church in Bel Air. This extremely remote and inaccessible mountain community has no church and the people must walk five hours to attend a church. We’ve provided Soldat Valiant with tarps, food,clothing and a small generator to use for their ministry. They are providing help for the people of Bel Air. Soldat has to walk five hours to do this ministry, as there are no roads. I wonder how many of us would be willing to walk five hours each Sunday to spread the gospel? Our secretary, Pat Duarte, will be leading an evangelic team in on August 6th, where a pastor’s seminar will be held at our conference center with around 100 pastors attending. A revival will also be preached by Rev. Darrel Cook of Evansville Ind. These seminars have been extremely popular over the years, and we try to have one every six months or so. One of our director, Dale Breedlove will be teaching one this winter on the Holy Spirit.
Thanks once more for your faithful support and I pray you will be moved to continue your prayers and financial support at this crucial juncture for MOL and the Haitians we serve to the glory of God. The fact is, our monthly operational costs have nearly doubled and we need more than ever many supporters willing to send a small check every month. I’m praying for more churches to come on board with monthly donations of $100 or more; and remember, individuals can become a ministry partner for only $20.00. Be blessed!
Dr Bob, Hartford, KY, 12 July, 2010
Faith and Prophecy Pastors & Leaders Conference & Revival Aug. 5th-13th
Posted By Patricia on July 10, 2010
If you feel that God is calling you on the mission field to teach His Word, now may be the time you are looking for. There is still time for the Aug. 5-13th trip. Over 100 Pastors and Church Leaders will gather at the Jolivert Conference Center. These are amazing men and women who will take the Word and travel miles into the mountains of Haiti to serve Jesus and start new churches. If you would like to be a part of this conference and like more information please call me at 270-779-4033 or 270-275-2555 or stop by and talk to me at 11 Boling Rd , Utica KY…call first make sure I am there. We will be leaving out of Nashville on the 5 th and leaving for PAP on the 6 th and returning to Nashville on the 13 th. You must have a current passport.
(Go , and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, – Matthew 28:19)
Our Condolences to Dr. Bob and his family with the loss of his mother Ezma Johnson.
Posted By admin on May 30, 2010
Ezma Johnson
Published: Sunday, May 30, 2010 12:12 AM CDT
HARTFORD — Ezma Johnson, 98, formerly of Owensboro, passed away Friday, May 28, 2010, at her home at Dogwood Retreat. She was born the daughter of the late Thomas Jefferson and Hatha Smith Dunagan on Sept. 24, 1911, in eastern Kentucky. She was a member of Buena Vista Baptist Church in Owensboro, had worked as a clerk at Dawson Shoe Store for a number of years and was a LPN. She was preceded in death by her husband, J. Lewis Johnson, in 1980.
Survivors include two sons, Dr. Robert (Betty) Johnson of Beaver Dam and J. Lewis (Sue) Johnson Jr. of Calabash, N.C.; eight grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and a sister, Sula Kellner of Horse Shoe, N.C.
Funeral services will held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Bevil Bros. Funeral Home in Beaver Dam. Burial will follow in Rosehill Cemetery in Owensboro. Friends may visit with the family from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. The family requests that expressions of sympathy take the form of contributions to Missions Of Love, P.O. Box 292, Hartford, KY 42347. Online condolences may be sent to bevilbrosfuneralhomes.com.
Asa & Jean March 2010 Report
Posted By Amy Wolf on May 22, 2010
Photos are uploaded from Asa and Jean’s Trip – view them here.
The Lord will guide you always; He will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. Isaiah 58:11
Now that we’ve recovered from the ordeal of the airlines (22 hours without sleep) and have achieved a modicum of order in our lives again, we want to share a story of what some would call coincidences, but we prefer to call “God appointments.” You may know that our trip was postponed for almost two weeks due to a wind storm that hit the East coast on February 25 and 26. We had driven to Washington D.C. in preparation to leave for Haiti at 6 A.M. on the 26th, when we heard the news and checked to find all flights canceled for the following morning. They could reschedule us to go to Miami on the 27th, but no connecting flights to Port-au-Prince were available until March 10. We were frustrated, but forced to say “there must be a reason,” and went back home.
The people who were going with us were able to change their schedules to the new time, March 10, and one more was able to join us that hadn’t been able to make the February 26 date. A couple of days later, we got an e-mail from Steve Edwards, who had been the pastor of the congregation we had been a part of thirty years ago at then Parkland Christian Church in Tacoma, WA. We had been transferred to another area, and had lost contact with him since then, though we did exchange cards and e-mails with his mother, Margaret. He had met a Haitian man at the NACC the previous summer who was a doctor and a preacher in Haiti. This man contacted him after the earthquake, needing help for the people he served in Haiti. Steve wanted to help, and was talking to Margaret about it. She told him that we were going to Haiti regularly and might know how to help. Steve then e-mailed us, and Asa answered him to get more information. We found out that two members of our mission board had taught this doctor in a Christian college in PAP some years ago. Asa talked to them, and they spoke very highly of this Doctor Sule, so Asa e-mailed him to find out what his circumstances were. His church had been damaged, and the people he ministered to had lost homes, loved ones, and were struggling to survive.
Well, we had ready to take with us the money that had been sent to us specifically for the relief of the earthquake victims, so we arranged to meet Dr. Sule Jean Marcel at the airport in PAP when we finally flew in on March 10. He was there right on time, and we had a short conversation to get acquainted. He is a very humble, soft-spoken man, with a heart for his people, and we gave him $500 for immediate needs and arranged to send him a barrel of medicines and supplies, and to meet him again on the way out. We are sending you a report of his work. Isn’t it amazing how God works? (more…)
Dr. Bob’s April Report
Posted By Bob and Betty on May 16, 2010
Palm Bay, Florida, 8 May, 2010
Gentlefolk:
My apologies for the huge delay in getting this report out to all our supporters. Fact is: I became quite ill while in Haiti during April and remained so until now, at which time I’m finally beginning to improve. Actually, three of us became ill (Nancy Bukovnik, my wife Betty and myself – apparently a flu-type virus, and undoubtedly related to the fact that we were all exhausted and stressed out after a MOST productive trip to both Jolivert and Port-au-Prince).
The Haitian people never cease to amaze me. I know of no culture or people on Earth with more resilience, resourcefulness, or just downright raw courage in the face of disaster of such unspeakable proportions as the recent earthquake and its terrible aftermaths. Returning after six weeks following the medical teams we led in on February 1st, we found the rubble still piled high, bodies still being extricated, tent cities of thousands of homeless with the worst sanitation and toilet facilities imaginable. And yet there was a huge difference. The rubble, hand-shovelled and hand-carted in wheel barrows to discrete piles throughout the city are now being slowly but steadily removed by huge endloaders lent by other countries . In its place the streets are being neatly swept, and even in the tent cities there is an order and sense of cooperation and compassion for each other that brings me to tears.
The pulse of life beats on, as the streets are teeming with tens of thousands of vendors, hawkers, and roadside cookeries who just keep on “keeping on.” Yet the disaster is far from over, as diseases such as diphtheria, colera, and other waterborne illnesses continue to take a high toll of life. Open air living on the streets with its attendant lack of protection against mosquitos has led to massive outbreaks of malaria. Intense and ongoing medical interventions will be needed for many months to come, and sanitation becomes a daily worsening concern for us all. Kudos to University of Miami who operates a huge tent hospital at the airport and continues to shuttle medical volunteers in and out by air every few days. Food and water is finally being distributed at several centers by the larger relief organizations. (more…)
Encouraging Words From MOL Supporters
Posted By Patricia on April 30, 2010
Submitted by Patricia Duarte
As Secretary and Treasurer of Missions of Love, I receive all the mail for the mission. I love to open a letter and find not just the much needed donation, but the encouraging notes and prayers. During the last few months of the earthquake disaster I have received many notes, some I have passed on to Bob & Betty. Today as I pray I feel led to start sharing these note’s with all of you who work so hard in the mission or are faithful supporters.
My daughter, Rachel, celebrated her 6th birthday on February 3rd. she had a big party and invited all her friends, but rather than asking for gifts, she asked that they all bring a $5.00 donation to Grandmother’s orphans in Haiti. She raised $150.00.
Sabrina Free
“Dear Missions of Love Our youth collected the enclosed checks this past weekend. They went without food for 30 hours! Our prayers are with you and your ministry. Sheila”
“Dear Dr. Johnson: Thank you for your wonderful volunteer efforts and interest in the Haitian people and their health care. Gary D. Fairman-Ely Rotary Club”
“Dear Pat, I’m sending a check to MOL for Earthquake Relief from money gathered by Traverse Heights Elementary School children and families in Traverse City, MI. I am the school nurse there, and they know that I have been going to Haiti over the past 11 years so they wanted to help! One of the teachers, Ms. Denise Elmi, coordinated their fundraiser. These little kids brought in their pennies, nickels,dimes and quarters to equal $192.70! For these kids and their families, this is a huge deal and I’m so tickled that they wanted to raise money to help Haitians. MaryEllen Sanok”
“From Joe & Hawana Green- A group of fifth-graders at Rockport Elementary decided to raise money after seeing the many Haitians injured in the earthquake. In over a week.s time, the group raised $600 from students and faculty. The students are; Aundrea Morris, Madison Milton, Laura Kirkpatrick, Brice Stuteville and Diego Parsley.”
“Hello! Your Mission came to me thru an email coming out of Sonlight Academy in Port de Paix. I visited Haiti in “04 and cannot even describe how much I love that place and yearn to go back. I know this box isn’t much, but I had to do something! I’m a teacher, not a Dr. and stuffed animals were not on your list…but if youcould please give them to the babies and children. Thank You! God Bless you and your future work in Haiti. Leah Lee”
P.S. Leah I personally gave them out to Babies and children while there last week, the children loved them….thank you.
“Dear Dr. Bob and MOL team- Though it has been a decade since I traveled with you to Haiti (with the Buena Vista Church group), Haiti still remains in my heart. When I learned of the earthquake, I immediately thought of the work you’ve been doing for Christ in Haiti. That put me on a search, and on Facebook I reconnected with Joe Sanok, and on the MOL website I was relieved to hear nobody on the MOL team was hurt. Please pardon my delay in helping out,but what at first I was compelled to send…..God has urged me to send a larger amount. He said you need it, and you know where it more desperately need to go. All I know is your work for the Kingdom is blessed and very important. Thank you for helping those poor children (of all ages) in our Lord’s name. Yours in Christ….Bill Ware”
“Thank you for what your are doing in Haiti. Some of the larger relief institutions seem to be fast in solicitations and slow in delivery.We know that a donation through you will go there quickly to do the most possible good. Fran and Randy Miller, Alameda Ca”
“Thank you for “being there” for our brothers & sisters in Haiti. Sending our love, Carl & Sunny Dahlquist”
From time to time I will publish notes from our wonderful supporters that encourage us with their prayers.
God’s Blessings to All
Pat Duarte
Report from Barbie & Ralph Porter
Posted By Amy Wolf on April 27, 2010
Dear Prayer Partners,
We just want to thank all of you who prayed for us while we were on our 10 day mission trip to Jolivert, Haiti for Missions of Love. This trip was unlike any other.
Although Jolivert is over 120 miles away from Port-Au-Prince (PAP), the epicenter of the January 12th earthquake, the rippling effects has deeply affected this area. Allow me to explain…
Jolivert is a small area located about five miles away from Port-De-Paix ( a 30-minute across-water-flight from PAP). However, over the past three months nearly 1,000 PAP refugees have flooded this tiny area seeking shelter and refuge. The refugees are without homes, any earthly possessions, food and clothing, and many are ill. During good times, Jolivert has few jobs, relying mostly on gardens and small entrepreneurship of roadside stands or market spots. However, for the past three months, there has been a drought in this mountainous region, rendering gardens fruitless and money scarce. The situation has resulted in more and more people and animals who are becoming thinner and thinner and more diseased.
In an attempt to help, The Missions of Love Medical Clinic has been serving 60 – 100 patients per day, charging minimal or no fees and giving free medical treatment. The clinic as also become a medical distribution site to other area hospitals and clinics. And, in the meantime, Missions of Love (MOL) has also been distributing, beans, rice and oil to 300 of the poorest of the poor families on a bi-weekly basis, while the Mamba program (a highly nutritious peanut butter mixture comprised of locally-grown peanuts, sugar and formula for under-nourished children) has also expanded its outreach.