November 2011 PRAISE and PRAYER

PRAISE for the start of a new church plant near Grace Center in Bon Repos.  We are getting great reports of progress in this ministry.  Praise the Lord for new believers and new members.

PRAY for teams we are anticipating for next year; possibly two medical teams, and some work teams.  Details are still in the works for these teams.

PRAY as we anticipate progress in the ministry in the next year.  We face some challenges, but we know God is able to guide and provide.

PRAY as we work to finish Grace Center.  We hope to have a dedication of the building sometime next year.  PRAY for the provision of needs for Grace Center.

PRAISE that John and Lindy Mahon as they have returned to Grace Center for a couple more months.  They are involved in the new church plant near Grace Center.  Lindy is anticipating involvement in the medical ministry at the Bertin clinic.    Please PRAY for strength for them, and for God’s grace, as they continue in the ministry there. 

Check out the Grace Center website: http://gmthgracecenter.webplus.net

PRAY for the needs of Grace Mission, particularly in the area of financial needs.  We face difficult economic times in our country, but God is able to provide.  Please pray for the provision of our needs in Haiti.

You can now give online with a checking or savings account, or credit card. 

Go to the mission website- www.gracemissionpage.org  or to the link below:

 https://secure.etransfer.com/GraceMissionHaiti/donate.cfm

Find GMTH on www.goodsearch.com and help support Grace Mission as you search the web.

From John Mahon:

From Pastor Beril:To all board members of Grace Mission to Haiti & faithful supporters:Greetings in Jesus lovely name.

PRAY for John and Lindy Mahon as they make plans to go to Haiti for three months, possibly as early as March.

PRAY as we work to finish Grace Center.  We hope to have a dedication of the building sometime this spring, or fall.

PRAY for teams organizing this year: a medical team in late March; a medical team in June.

PRAISE that appliances were purchased and installed at Grace Center.

PRAISE for an electrical team that was in Haiti in November to complete the electrical work at the conference center, and install the last lights and ceiling fans.  The water pump was connected and started pumping water, to the joy of the team and especially the Haitians.  A team will return in February or March to complete the electrical work.

PRAISE for the roofing teams that went to Haiti in January and put roofs on a school at Doriol, and the school and church at Gode.

PRAY for carpentry teams forming now to build bunk beds, tables and etc.

PRAY for the situation in Haiti.  Things are a bit unstable at the moment but we are trusting it will improve as things progress.

PRAY for the needs of Grace Mission, particularly in the area of financial needs.  WE face difficult economic times in our country, but God is able to provide.  Please pray for the provision of our needs in Haiti.

Plan to be at our annual banquet in 2011.  Next year will be at Shady Maple Smorgasbord on September 24, 2011, at 12 noon.  Make your plans now!

Note: If you would be interested in a representative from Grace Mission visiting your church to update the ministry, please contact the mission office.

You can now give online with a checking or savings account, or credit card.

Go to the mission website- www.gracemissionpage.org  or to the link below:

https://www.donation-net.net/GraceMission/donate.cfm

Your support to the work of Grace Mission to Haiti is such a blessing and is impacting lives.

January 2011 PRAISE and PRAYER

We received the following email from Pastor Beril, with the subject of “SPECIAL THANKS”:

Dear fellow co-workers , Friends & Supporters in the USA.

This is the end of the year 2010. It is a time to share good wishes and testify recognition to all of the friends and supporters of Grace Mission field Haiti.  The national board of Haiti in the name of board of leaders of the field  would like to express our gratefulness to American brothers and sisters. We express
thanks and greetings at Christmas to you all.

Special thanks for being so supportive to us throughout the struggles and tragedies of 2010. Thanks [for helping] us restoring  most of our church and school buildings and homes. Thanks for helping us rescue several hundreds of people with food and supplies. thanks for prayers and financial supports.

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011.
Jean Beril Pierre-Louis
National director

PRAY as we work to finish Grace Center.  We hope to have a dedication of the building sometime this spring.

PRAISE that the painting at Grace Center has been completed and looks beautiful.

PRAISE for an electrical team that was in Haiti in November to complete the electrical work at the conference center, and install the last lights and ceiling fans.  The water pump was connected and started pumping water, to the joy of the team and especially the Haitians.

Pray for three roofing teams planned for mid January 2011, to put roofs on the school and church at Gode and the school at Doriol, and for carpentry teams forming now to build bunk beds, cabinets and etc.

PRAY for the situation in Haiti.  Things are a bit unstable at the moment but we are trusting it will improve once we get into the new year.

Plan to be at our annual banquet in 2011.  Next year will be at Shady Maple Smorgasbord on September 24, 2011, at 12 noon.  Make you plans now!

Note: If you would be interested in a representative from Grace Mission visiting your church to update the ministry, please contact the mission office.

You can now give online with a checking or savings account, or credit card. 

Go to the mission website- www.gracemissionpage.org  or to the link below:

 https://www.donation-net.net/GraceMission/donate.cfm

In August there was a trip to Maryland for a board meeting, then a trip to Haiti for our annual Leadership Conference, and some time spent at Grace Center, then out to Gode and Doriol to prepare for roofing teams in January.  This took us into September and a trip to Pennsylvania for meetings and to prepare for our annual Celebration Banquet at Shady Maple Smorgasbord, near Lancaster, on September 25.  The banquet was a wonderful time of celebration, food and fellowship.  Another banquet in western Pennsylvania took place the following weekend in October and indications that banquet was a great success as well.

October 23-30, I returned to  Lagonave with a team from Barefoot Church.  They were a wonderful team, endured a fairly rough trip to the three churches on Lagonave, painted, had fellowship with the believers at the churches, and saw 22 people come to salvation in Christ in the days we were there.

November found me back in Haiti at a pastors’ conference in Carrefour with four men with C3 Global.  The two day conference was a tremendous encouragement to the pastors of Carrefour.  We had between 150-200 pastors gathered at Pastor Beril’s church for the conference.

Please pray for the people of Haiti.  They endured the earthquake in January, then a major storm in November, and now are suffering with an epidemic of cholera.  Elections are to be held at the end of November.  The ministries of Grace Mission have weathered the disasters rather well, but please keep praying for our pastors and mission leaders as they deal with all these things, and try to meet needs with limited resources.

Clothing:
Approximately 150 boxes have been prepared and distributed to the 27 church
under Grace Mission and well as other locations that have expressed need. Each
box has several items for men, women, and children (age range of newborn to
adolescent), also included are linens for beddings, towels, hats, belts, shoes
as well as toys for the children.

Food and House products:
Also distributed in accordance to the need of the people have been boxes of food
and toiletry items. These food included cereals, milk, peanut butter, flour,
beans, rice, cookies, and canned products. Also included n these boxes were
toiletry items such as soap, shampoo and conditioner, toothpaste, hand
sanitizer, bathroom tissue and paper towels.

Tarps:
Have also been given out to help make tents and protective coverings for
schools, churches and other living quarters.

Medical Supplies and Medicine:
Boxes of medical supplies have been distributed to many clinics in the
surrounding areas. Especially our clinic in Bertin as well as medicine given to
the doctors at Samaritan Purse.

The people of Haiti, have received these supplies with much gratefulness of
heart. It has been a joy to see so many needs being meet. May the Lord’s work
continue and may all who have given be richly blessed.

In His Service,
Pastor Beril

The partnership idea, as we are looking at it now, is an old idea with some new features.  The church partnership program is intended to provide for some of the needs of the Haitian churches, but with a greater emphasis on outreach to be more effective in reaching people with the Gospel.  Physical needs of the churches is certainly a part of it, but we recognize that the spiritual needs are even greater.  Barefoot Church has a serious burden for the unsaved and wants their partnership to be an evangelism tool, more than anything else.  This is the model I hope we can duplicate in all our Haitian fields.  Please pray with us as we work to that end.

 Things continue to progress in Haiti.  We have faced some frustrations with getting things through customs, but over all we have been able to get supplies in.  Over the last several weeks we have had supplies come in from Banner Elk, NC and from several churches in the Baltimore, MD area, plus some from the Pittsburgh area.  Two large shipments have been processed and sent on to Haiti.  This included tarps, tents, clothing, food and medical supplies which are all needed in Haiti and will go to meet the needs of our people.

 I have had the opportunity to go to Haiti three times since the earthquake.  Once in January to try to get some supplies shipped in from Barefoot Community Church in North Myrtle Beach, SC, then with a team in February to do some survey on getting other teams in, and then with two teams in March.  The two teams were combined in a medical team and a work team.  About half the team was work, and helped with some clean up and other things related to the earthquake.  The medical team was made up of primarily of students from Palm Beach Atlantic University, some nursing students and some pharmacy students.  They held several medical clinics, helped out at a couple of orphanages, did some food distribution along with the work team and helped out at a mission hospital near Port au Prince.  These teams did a great job and worked hard to accomplish much good.

 We continue to work toward getting the needs met in Haiti, especially after the earthquake.  Some funds have been transferred to Haiti to our Haitian leadership, to begin rebuilding, but we have a long way to go.

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 -