Missions of Love

April 14, 2010

Greetings from Jolivert!

We have 12 here in Haiti on this 10-day post-earthquake work team. We will be staying from April 13 – 23.

By name team members are: Dr. Bob and Betty Johnson, MOL Founders
Directors: Nancy Bukovnik, Terry Anderson, Dale Breedlove, Greg Seelig, Joe Greene, Ralph and Barbie Porter and MOL Sec/Treas./Dir, Pat Duarte, and other team members: Scott Searcy and first-timer, Warren Mattingly.

Our pre-breakfast meeting on Wednesday, April 14 included our Haitian friends and co-Workers: Pastor George and our poster child for the MOL music program, Esdras.

Dr. Bob opened with a warm welcome and an inspirational devotional called, “You are the Light of the World” that encouraged us all to “feed the wild bluebird of your heart on the wild berries of this life.” It was followed by a brief testimony from Pastor George.

This is what he shared:
“What I used to do, I did because I didn’t know what I was doing,” said Pastor George. “But He showed me the light… that things I was doing was wrong.

“When I lived much long in Bahamas. I drank and smoked, cigarettes, the Haitian pastor continued. “I tried witch craft to stop drinking. It no worked.

“But, the day I asked the Lord as my Saviour,” he said with a wide smile, “I stopped drinking.

In the Word I read, I will hide the word in my heart. The word is the light, my light. After I knew the Lord, a big change came in my life from darkness to light.

Doc, Betty and Pastor George shared their stories about Port Au Prince, the post-earthquake trauma and the change of attitude of the Haitian people – full churches and the three day call to prayer and fasting.

“I’ve never witnessed anything like the Three Days of Prayer and Fasting,” said Dr. Bob. “Tens of thousands of people all wearing white, in memory of their lost loved ones. People were in the streets, singing, praising the Lord. I never seen anything like it in my life.”

“They took fasting serious,” added Betty. “You couldn”t even buy food in Port Au Prince anywhere.”

Told how they spent around $60,000 in PAP for food, feeding the hungry people. How Jolivert has been an extension of the earthquake relief, aiding more than 1,000 refugees with medical attention, food and clothing and how Joe Judges tent ministry is going well and tents are being distributed. .

Our list of what we hope to accomplish on this trip:

Tour of all the Mission buildings on the compound checking for structural damage.
Decide where to place solar panels.
Hope to complete solar power grid, so we use of generator/diesel fuel.
Inspect diesel generator.
Rat proof kitchen in conference center.
Prepare surgical space for arrival of surgical team in October..
Build hood and heat light for blood chemistry machine.
Need a half-refrigerator in lab on all the time to keep medical supplies safe. Possibly on that runs on solar power?
Need solar powered freezer in kitchen in conference center.
Attend baptism,and Sunday service at Mouratier/
Finish sorting barrels, pallets,and distribution.
Look into school situation, to make sure students are back in school and prepare for 2011.
Purchase beans and rice for clinic distrubtions in Jolivert.
Purchase more Feed My Starving Children meals.

Submitted By Barbie Porter

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