23. February 2010 by admin.

Tuesday 2/23/10

Greetings Friends –

Well it’s been a busy time with us and Grace Mission to Haiti…..here’s the latest –

George was scheduled to leave Saturday, 2/20 for Haiti along with Jesse Nelms, the Missions Pastor at our church here in FL, Jim Laidlaw with Global Partnership and about 14 other men.  They all had tickets to fly SpiritAir from Ft Laud to Port au Prince.  We kept checking with Spirit because they were scheduled to begin flying to Haiti the 19^th.  George spoke with someone at Spirit on Thursday and they still said the flight was a go.  Well, when we got up Friday AM, we went to the Spirit website and discovered that the flight was cancelled.  The first thing I had to do was contact our son-in-laws brother Matt, who was to fly from Syracuse to West Palm around noon as he was to be part of the team.  Thankfully, we caught him before they left for the 2 hour drive to Syracuse. 

George met with Jim and had a few phone conversations with Jesse and it was decided to try to fly in to Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic and then get to PAP.  They were able to book a flight with JetBlue from that left Ft Laud around 2:30 PM on Saturday.  There are a total of 7 men on the trip.  One of them, Ben Loyer, spent 21 years in Haiti as a missionary and is fluent in Creole which is a huge help.  Another man is fluent in French which is very good.  Jim know French and Spanish and another knows Spanish so that was a help in the DR……God always provides.

They arrived in the DR and were picked up in a vehicle that had 2….yes 2, tire blow-outs on the way to the hotel!!!!!  They checked into the hotel, a lovely Clarion; walked down the streets to a Wendy’s and had supper.  (It is so amazing how different the 2 countries on this one small island are)  After a good nights sleep they had breakfast and the hotel shuttled them to the bus station where they boarded a lovely air-conditioned, movie showing bus that even provided food and beverages.  After about 6 hours they arrived in PAP and Pastor Beril picked them up at the bus station to take them to the hotel they are staying at.

George said that it was very strange because there were places along the Carrefour Road that is normally steaming with people and vendors that was basically deserted.  When he asked Pastor Beril about it he said that thousands and thousands of people are moving out of the city and into the country to get away from the devastation.

Here is a HUGE praise – 2 weekends ago there were 40 people saved at Pastor Beril’s church and this past week-end there were 20.  He also said that he and many pastors in the area have been having evangelistic services in the evenings and MANY people are coming to the Lord.

When asked about the schools he said that the ‘government’ says schools will resume on March 15 but he doesn’t see how that will be possible due to the damage to the buildings.  His school in Carrefour is damaged too much to be used and that is true for some of our other schools.

George said that he woke up from a dead sleep at 4:30 AM yesterday morning by a strong tremor and there was another strong one (said to be about a 6) later Monday morning while they met with a group of pastors about the upcoming medical/counseling team that is going in on March 6^th.  This team is primarily made up of students and staff from Palm Beach Atlantic Univerisity here in West Palm.  The counseling part of the team is very important as our Haitian brothers and sisters try to cope with all they’ve been through.  After lunch, they had an opportunity to meet with a team of our regional directors.

Plans are for them to continue to survey needs to be met by teams we will be forming in the coming months and, yes, years.  They hope to get out to Grace Center and also go to Kelly Fleury’s orphanage near Leogane to survey the damage there.

Thank you so much for your prayers and concerns -

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26. January 2010 by admin.

Monday, 1/25/10

Praise the Lord with me….George and Jim arrived in Fort Peirce this afternoon at 4:30!!  Thank you so much for the many of you who have been praying.

The supplies sent from SC have been delayed a bit due to a blown engine on the MFI plane.  They were hoping to have it fixed late today.  They are also hoping for a C130 to come available to use to fly in larger amounts of cargo.  They expect the pallets to be in Haiti by the end of the week and the group of Pastors in Carrefour have a plan for the disbursement to the folks in the community.  PLEASE pray for MFI and their staff.  This is a huge undertaking for them and they are meeting the needs of so very many people.  Pray also for the Hendricks MotorSports team who are flying 2 planes in and out of Haiti each day and have committed to do it at least thru the end of this month.

Louise did not come to the states as we were originally told.  She is doing OK and I think she feels the need to be there at this time, ministering and meeting needs beside her husband.

There is so much to share and I will be posting pictures on Facebook but they will both take place tomorrow, after I have time to sort out everything.

Please continue to pray for Haiti.  The needs are so great.  Please pray also for wisdom for Pastor Beril and the Haitian board as they determine where we start 1^st to rebuild what was lost so the Gospel can continue to be proclaimed.

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29. June 2009 by admin.

The time has finally come to try to update this blog… or rather, to start it, I guess.  Time is always the biggest problem, of course, but if I am going to keep this going, then we must stay on it.

Much is happening in Haiti, and with Grace Mission.  To try to bring you up to date since January, here we go.

In January two teams went to Haiti.  One was a construction team which went to begin the process of refurbishing our Bertin dental clinic.  The second team was actually a team of one, or two, depending on how you count it.  Pastor David Nelms joined me in Haiti to teach at our Grace Mission seminary, where he taught on homiletics for a week.  He did a fantastic job and was very well received.

In February I accompanied a roofing construction team from Georgia and Maryland, led by Pastor Butch Lee, also the vice president of our Board of Directors.  We went to Doriol and put on a roof in record time.

In March, Nancy went to Haiti with a medical team led by Dr. Steve Cook from Banner Elk, NC.  It was a large team and ended up being divided into two teams.  One team worked at the Bertin medical clinic, and the other at the Riviere Froide church and school.  They saw just over 500 patients in the week.

In May, I, along with Bruce Bassett, one of our Board members, went to Haiti to meet with our Grace Center engineer to finalize plans for construction, and then met an Exploratory team from Jim Evans church in North Myrtle Beach, SC.  They are considering the possibility of partnering with one of our churches.

In June, I traveled again to Haiti for our Bible Institute graduation.  We saw 20 students graduate from the Bible Institute to begin moving out to serve the Lord in several ways, or go on for further training at a seminary.  I also met a medical team, led by Dr. Rob Martsolf that was staying through June 26 to conduct a medical clinic at our Williamson church and school.

That brings us up to the present.

It is with great excitement that we are letting you know that our 13^th ANNUAL Grace Mission to Haiti Celebration Banquet is scheduled for Saturday, September 26^th, 2009 at the Shady Maple Smorgasbord near New Holland, PA.  We are doing things a bit different this year as the banquet will be starting at 11:00 AM.  Many of the folks who like to come to the banquet travel quite a distance so we thought this would enable them to make the trip during daylight hours.  The meal will be buffet style.  More details will be coming, but we just wanted you to set the date aside so you can join us and rejoice in all God is doing in and through GMTH.

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22. November 2008 by admin.

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