I love the fact that we have a great relationship with the Northwest Haitian Christian Mission! I love that we send people to help with this ministry, not just money. I love the we know some of the workers and those who come to the mission for aid on a first name basis. I love that I have a postcard hand painted by a man there at the mission. This card reminds me that our church’s influence is bigger than Bowling Green. We recently received an update from Kathie Perkinson, one of our regular short term missionaries, and I wanted to pass it along. Haiti has been in the news lately and is experiencing a great unrest, this update helps to make their situation and our connection there a little more personal:
Please ask people to pray for the mission and the Haitian people. The political situation is still not good and the mission is having to cut feeding programs to be able to buy diesel fuel. It is very hard to find and they are only finding two or three barrels at a time–they need about 25 per month @ $9.00/gallon. How does one not feed the elderly who only got one meal a day before (and that from the mission) and now just are not eating at all? The prices of food and EVERYTHING have skyrocketed and they struggled before. We are safe and working on a limited scale because our food and supplies are in Miami in customs and the shortage of fuel limits generator use and thus the surgeries and other mission activities and supplies — like water for the mission as well as the community. Be thankful to be an American — except by the grace of God, we could be living here!!!! Those of us Americans who are here get to return home — the Haitians have no jobs, no way to find one and no way out!
