Ingala Encourages Northern Kentucky to Help

Despite the adversity he faced in Haiti from Jan. 22 to Feb. 13, David Ingala is proud of the time he spent working as a sometimes nurse and pharmacist at the permanent clinic of Nehemiah Vision Ministries, an international organization focused on transforming the lives of Haitian people through education, health and spiritual development...more

Steuben County, NY - Couple Recently Returned from Haiti

The Avoca couple are nurses, and found a clinic just outside of Port-au-Prince that needed help. When they got there they didn't see the injuries they were expecting to see... more

South Bend Tribune Article on Dr. Randy Kline's Visit to Haiti

Two years ago, a man from Haiti visited Oak Creek Community Church in Mishawaka.
The man, Esperandieu Pierre, had worked as a linguist for the United Nations before working as a Christian missionary in Africa and eventually in his home country in hopes of making a difference there, according to Dr. Randy Kline, who has traveled to the Caribbean nation to provide medical treatment both before and after the recent earthquake... more

One of the Oldest Patients

A man came into the clinic today. He was 95 years old. Yes, 95 years old. He was a sweet old man. He was complaining of blurry eyesight, and was a bit stiff and weak. As one of our nurses began to get his story...read more

Grace CC : TeamOne Update

Two things were striking. First, as the team was just arriving and getting set-up, a post-earthquake tremor took place. People were sitting in the waiting area at the clinic on benches, and a few down the halls waiting to be seen in the rooms. As soon as the earth start to shook...

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Grace volunteers packed 440,856 meals with Kids Against Hunger

Thanks to everyone who supported this event, from those who gave sacrificially as part of the special offering for Haiti to those who gave hours of your time over the last two days to package the Kids Against Hunger food. This food will literally save lives of people in Haiti who have nothing to eat.

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Grace CC : TeamOne

It is was a full day, and hard to capture fully in words. I will try and just relay what we did. Everyone on the team is in good health, and in good spirits.

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Update : GAiN Canada

GAiN Canada gave out over 800 food packages in an area in Haiti yesterday morning. These packages consisted of rice, beans, cooking oil, sandals, along with some clothing, which normally feeds a family of 5 for about 7 days. The team also gave out nearly two pallets of much needed baby food and formula.

GAiN's medical team just finished orientation in the Dominican Republic and is now headed to Haiti.

TeamThree Update - GAiN Canada

There was a lot happening over weekend and last couple of days. On Saturday the team was able to distribute food to 600 out of the 1000 families staying in the national stadium, with the remaining 400 families receiving food packages on Sunday morning. These packages contained enough food to feed an entire family for one week. There was security at the food distribution but there were still some tense moments for the team distributing the food.

“The stadium had nearly the ideal set up to do such a distribution with this number of people, with fencing, gates and walls, forming a controllable wall point of distributing the food. When they started handing out the food though the people began to get anxious and began to press against the gates with a large mass of people.”

The Jesus film was also shown both inside the stadium and outside with an estimated 6000 people (the population of the camp) attending the showings.

“On the first day that the Jesus film showed the film at the stadium the team informed us that they had attendance of 3000 people with 100 people making a commitment to God, at the second showing outside on the back of the stadium, they also had a attendance of 3000 and had 50 people come forward making a commitment to God.”

There were also showings on Saturday evening at a clinic across from the national palace as well as 2 showing in another IDP camp where we have been working. We’ll be getting numbers from these showings and passing them on as soon as we’ve received them.

On Monday, a water filter training and distribution occurred as schedule at the church in Chambrun. The families that were receiving the filters had been chosen in advance as representatives that would use the filter as an opportunity to witness to their neighbors about Christ.

“We had prepared the church by finding out how many families there were and selecting one out of ten families to receive the filters. We had pre-determined that we were going to distribute seven water filters. The church/community liaison, one interpreter and 7 women came….. They were all very interested and I talked about to them about the filters not belonging to them, but it belongs to God and that they were just stewards of the filters. We talked about them being missionaries since they are to share it with 9 or so other families and that they were to take the time to invite their family, friends and neighbors to use the filter and share with them the good news about Jesus Christ. I showed them how the filter works, filtering some of the water that they took out of a cistern, ran it through the filter and drank it, telling them that even a white man with a very weak stomach could drink it. They laughed but really opened their eyes as I did this.”

-Dave Kenega (GAiN)