Finally!

We have finally found an internet connection! We are resting today at a hotel here in Mireblais and enjoying some rest and relaxation, after two very long days of caring for more than 400+ Haitian men, women, and children. We set up our clinic in a church on the side of a cliff in a very rural and isolated area several miles outside of town. We treated some people who had walked for many hours to get there. Some were carried in and were very ill and some just took advantage of the opportunity to get a check up from a real doctor. We passed out vitamins to everyone we saw, most especially the children and the throngs of expectant mothers. The Great Commission Alliance (GCA) has built a comfortable guest house and is caring for us well. They have made it very comfortable for servant-hearted people to come and serve the people of Haiti. We have also been helped by college students who have been displaced by the January earthquake. They have served as our very capable translators for Bible teaching, medical services, and crowd control. In conversations with them their love for the country of Haiti is evident. They were studying towards a variety of liberal arts degrees in Port Au Prince including linguistics, history, sociology, and literature. I saw several of them put the needs of the people at our clinic before their own as they gave their food away to hungry ladies who had been standing in line all day. Currently they are living in tents by the river and are not certain what their future holds or how they will return to classes. Their campus buildings are in ruins and many of the faculty members were killed or displaced as well. Tomorrow we are setting up shop at an orphanage and will try to meet the basic medical needs of children and the mamas that care for them. The GCA has recently sponsored this orphanage as they have been relocated from Port to Mireblais. After the earthquake the children were without any food or clean water and the GCA came to their immediate rescue. They have continued to support them and supply them with food and water. The future plans are to provide them with beds, better living quarters, educational opportunities and financial support. Pray for us as we continue. Some of our team is struggling with allergies, injuries, and various gastrointestinal issues. Still we persevere and are happy to be serving this beautiful country and people. For the team...beth hendry

4 hours and counting

With only a few hours before we begin our journey, I sit up and think about Haiti and I ask myself how can a land with so much chaos, unrest, and strife be so beautiful. How, better yet, why is it that I look forward with great anticipation and joy. The only answer is the presence of God. Due to the limited resources and the raw way of life that we will call home for 7 days, God's presence can be seen, heard, and felt. So the passion I have for Haiti is because it is in Haiti that my soul is refreshed and my heart is strengthened (1 Thesssalonians 3:!3).

There will be 21 men and women who will bring the love of Christ to the orphans, widows and people who have just lived through one of the most horrific events ever to strike the Western Hemisphere. Yet those who call themselves Christians, know that we have a loving God. A God who is always with them and who will never leave them or forsake them.

Please pray daily for the team as we work hard to bring medical care to those in need. But we are not there only to serve the physical needs but also the internal, spiritual needs of the people through daily studies from God's word. We will share God's word from the days of Adam and Eve through the life of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Haiti, the Land of Mountains, is a beautiful land but in the land Satan roams like a roaring lion. (1 Peter 5:8) Voodoo is real and Satan will attempt to do everything in his limited power to keep us from doing our job, so please pray for God's covering over us. We will need the full armor of God 24/7, so do not cease in your prayers.

The team is as follows:

Kal and Beth Hendry, Brandon Wells,Ben Bordy, Kelley Hinterschied, Patia Modia, Mariana Caro, Vinnie Ciccone, Bobbi Comeaux, Ed Boheric, Rich Blatz Joel Kohnert, Paul Alfonato, Jon Ballard, Andrew Nichols, Lindsey Whiddon, Jim Lyndon, Dr. Gil Gutierrez, Erin Malenke, Jerry Miller, Matt Weissman

Blessings,

Matt