Annual Update - 2024
February 01. 2025
There are three Benevolent groups that GCF has historically helped. Once again, in 2024 our efforts were directed to Haiti, India, and nonprofit organizations here in the U.S., especially locally.
Since then, Haiti’s President was assassinated, their government shut down, police killed or went into hiding, and the vast majority of missionaries left the country. Roads were blockaded by the gangs, people randomly pulled from their cars, homes, or business and shot or extorted for ransom from their families. The poor people go hungry, sheltering in place fearing for their lives. The prisons get broken into and criminals escape, leaving nothing but chaos.
HOWEVER, God puts a blessing before us even in the midst of despair! The people and Christian organization that we worked with, side-by-side for 10 years, is still alive and getting the gospel out and aid to the hurting.
LIVING WATER CHRISTIAN MISSIONS, in Gonaives, founded and led by Salonique Adolphe and his family, though in constant danger, are still operating. God’s blessing is that GCF, in that ten years, was able to establish long-term wonderful relationships, thereby setting the stage for the situation now. That is, we can’t physically go but we can still send funds to sustain their efforts for Jesus.
Efforts include: Main Church of over 1,000 membership, 4 area church plants with schools, a radio station reaching over a million people, a medical clinic, a farm to raise food for the people, a vocational training school, a recently completed orphanage for homeless/orphaned kids, and a bible college training and equipping new pastors for the Lord.
We also continue to help our missionary brothers who assisted us in well drilling, Looko and Jean, in Port au Prince, while they are restricted by the chaos and violence in Haiti and unable to make a living.
ALL this, with your support, enables GCF to send funds to support these benevolent efforts for the people of Haiti. This past year we sent funds for food, medicine, school and orphanage support. GCF partnered with other U.S. churches to pay to build the wonderful orphanage in Gonaives, a safe refuge for children. All done for the GLORY OF THE LORD! (check out GCF website)
2023: The orphanage leadership of LWCM has started taking in disadvantaged and orphaned children.
HAITI:
I don’t have adequate words to describe the condition in Haiti these last 4 years. In 2020 during our last medical trip to Haiti, our team had to escape in the night to get to the airport because the gangs were going to shut down the capital city the next morning. They did shut down Port-au-Prince the next morning and we have not been able to go back since. It breaks our hearts!Since then, Haiti’s President was assassinated, their government shut down, police killed or went into hiding, and the vast majority of missionaries left the country. Roads were blockaded by the gangs, people randomly pulled from their cars, homes, or business and shot or extorted for ransom from their families. The poor people go hungry, sheltering in place fearing for their lives. The prisons get broken into and criminals escape, leaving nothing but chaos.
HOWEVER, God puts a blessing before us even in the midst of despair! The people and Christian organization that we worked with, side-by-side for 10 years, is still alive and getting the gospel out and aid to the hurting.
LIVING WATER CHRISTIAN MISSIONS, in Gonaives, founded and led by Salonique Adolphe and his family, though in constant danger, are still operating. God’s blessing is that GCF, in that ten years, was able to establish long-term wonderful relationships, thereby setting the stage for the situation now. That is, we can’t physically go but we can still send funds to sustain their efforts for Jesus.
Efforts include: Main Church of over 1,000 membership, 4 area church plants with schools, a radio station reaching over a million people, a medical clinic, a farm to raise food for the people, a vocational training school, a recently completed orphanage for homeless/orphaned kids, and a bible college training and equipping new pastors for the Lord.
We also continue to help our missionary brothers who assisted us in well drilling, Looko and Jean, in Port au Prince, while they are restricted by the chaos and violence in Haiti and unable to make a living.
ALL this, with your support, enables GCF to send funds to support these benevolent efforts for the people of Haiti. This past year we sent funds for food, medicine, school and orphanage support. GCF partnered with other U.S. churches to pay to build the wonderful orphanage in Gonaives, a safe refuge for children. All done for the GLORY OF THE LORD! (check out GCF website)
2023: The orphanage leadership of LWCM has started taking in disadvantaged and orphaned children.
INDIA:
GCF helps two native Missionaries there, both of which our team worked side by side with, when training and equipping them for hand water well drilling. Charlie Abro, for decades, has been evangelizing and training up disciples for Christ. Paul Joseph, has gone out on his own, and is church planting and evangelizing in the southern jungles of India. GCF is the single support of Paul Joseph’s work. With a budget less that $20,000 a year, he tirelessly goes out working for the Lord. (See GCF website for details and pictures.)United States incl. Local:
Our funds flow through to help Samaritan’s Purse, Food for the Poor, and others for disasters and other needs. Annual support is given locally to many service organizations like Mission of Hope, Team Challenge, Help Build Hope, Stillwater Life Services, Our Daily Bread, Mobile Meals, and more.Annual Update - 2023
December 19. 2023
As we move quickly to the close of 2023 it gives us a chance to share what has been going on with GCF. COVID and world unrest have dominated peoples and countries like no other time in our lives. Here is a timeline of what Global Compassion Foundation has helped with over these last 13 years thanks to your generosity and faithfulness to help God’s people:
2010: Earthquake relief. We served on teams from Stillwater, our church and our area for years to provide assistance to orphanages decimated by this tragedy.
2013: Clean Water. GCF team was trained, procured equipment, and established a hand water well drilling program, whereby a trained Haitian team has to-date drilled 35 wells at Christian churches, providing clean, safe drinking water, and the gospel to many desperate people.
2017: Living Water Christian Ministries (LWCM). Global Compassion Foundation began working with Pastor Salonique Adolphe, helping to spread the gospel and provide help through his multi-faceted programs: 5 Church/school plants, farming, medical relief, Bible College, radio station, feeding programs, vocational training program.
2018: Medical Clinics in Port-au-Prince and Gonaives, Haiti.
GCF started taking medical teams and medicine, for providing care to the people in need around the cities of Gonaives and Port-au-Prince. This continued until 2019 when at that time, all missionaries had to leave the country due to violence and unrest.
2019: Orphanage built in Gonaives by LWCM. Global Compassion Foundation (GCF) partnered with LWCM and other U.S. churches to start building a Christian orphanage. Funds were raised and it was just completed this Fall 2023.
2023: The orphanage leadership of LWCM has started taking in disadvantaged and orphaned children.
2017: The native India well team leader Paul Joseph started his own ministry reaching the rural impoverished people groups in the country’s southern area. GCF is the sole provider of funds to carry out his ministry of sharing the gospel and benevolent efforts to those living in the most remote areas of India.
Because of conditions beyond our control, most of these needs and situations are complicated, desperate, and never ending. God leads us not to solve these problems, but to be obedient in his service to help those in great need!
HAITI:
Our support projects and the people there, have taken hits like no other time they can recall! To refresh your memories, to-date the following is what GCF has assisted with.2010: Earthquake relief. We served on teams from Stillwater, our church and our area for years to provide assistance to orphanages decimated by this tragedy.
2013: Clean Water. GCF team was trained, procured equipment, and established a hand water well drilling program, whereby a trained Haitian team has to-date drilled 35 wells at Christian churches, providing clean, safe drinking water, and the gospel to many desperate people.
2017: Living Water Christian Ministries (LWCM). Global Compassion Foundation began working with Pastor Salonique Adolphe, helping to spread the gospel and provide help through his multi-faceted programs: 5 Church/school plants, farming, medical relief, Bible College, radio station, feeding programs, vocational training program.
2018: Medical Clinics in Port-au-Prince and Gonaives, Haiti.
GCF started taking medical teams and medicine, for providing care to the people in need around the cities of Gonaives and Port-au-Prince. This continued until 2019 when at that time, all missionaries had to leave the country due to violence and unrest.
2019: Orphanage built in Gonaives by LWCM. Global Compassion Foundation (GCF) partnered with LWCM and other U.S. churches to start building a Christian orphanage. Funds were raised and it was just completed this Fall 2023.
2023: The orphanage leadership of LWCM has started taking in disadvantaged and orphaned children.
INDIA:
2014: GCF’s team, went to that country, through Missionary/Pastor Charlie Abro, and trained a crew to establish a clean water program. Multiple wells have been drilled there.2017: The native India well team leader Paul Joseph started his own ministry reaching the rural impoverished people groups in the country’s southern area. GCF is the sole provider of funds to carry out his ministry of sharing the gospel and benevolent efforts to those living in the most remote areas of India.
United States incl. Local:
We continue each year to support other nonprofit organizations that are setup and in place, in order to provide services like disaster relief, humanitarian crisis situations as well as other charitable needs, as they are brought before the GCF Board of Directors.Because of conditions beyond our control, most of these needs and situations are complicated, desperate, and never ending. God leads us not to solve these problems, but to be obedient in his service to help those in great need!
Annual Update - 2018
December 31. 2018
HAITI:
GCF is involved in the kick off of an all new project. In addition to the well drilling program and conducting medical clinics, GCF has joined Living Water Ministries in Haiti in developing a new orphanage in Gonaives. The land has been purchased and plans are being drawn up. We will keep you updated on this exciting project as it develops.In February 2018 our team, led by medical doctors Doug Wilsey and Mike Kelly, conducted four medical clinics around Gonaives and Port-au-Prince, serving over 600 patients desperately needing medical care. (See prior post here) For many this is the only chance they have to see a doctor. Depending on funds, the doctors want to start going twice a year in order to give these people consistent medical care.
GCF also continued supporting our water well drilling and purification filter systems installation program. To-date, the Haitian team has drilled 45 wells at as many Christian churches. To God be the glory as his gospel goes out to those drawn in by pure water.
INDIA:
You may recall that about 3 years ago our GCF well drilling training team went to Vijayawada, India and trained a team there on using the Water4 manual well drilling equipment. Since then they have drilled multiple wells through Charlie Abro missionary and founder of Light India Initiative.GCF also established a woman’s sewing training center and annually provide funds for cloth purchase for the trained women there.
We also provide funds on a monthly basis for food to a small Christian orphanage in Vijayawada that houses approximately 15 children.
MEXICO:
Over the years several of our members have done mission work through Sunnybrook Christian Church in Piedra Negras, Mexico. GCF continued to send monthly financial support for the Casa de Paz Orphanage there.LOCALLY:
GCF continued to support local organizations including Salvation Army, Mission of Hope, Wings of Hope, Meals on Wheels, and Our Daily Bread food pantry just to name a few, in addition to different benevolent needs of people in our community.Reflections on Haiti
February 14. 2018
Mike and I just returned from another medical mission trip to Haiti. The last two trips, we have worked mainly in the area around Gonaives (3 hours from Port-Au-Prince) with a church called Living Waters. We usually do 2 or 3 clinics there and then one in Port-Au-Prince the day before we leave. This year Mike and another doctor saw 787 people in the week we were there. Mike and Dr. Wilsey had to turn some away because we had to stop about 3:30 or 4:00 to get back before dark on the days we worked out from Gonaives.
Julie Kelly
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Dr. Mike explaining medicines to Mattanie Paul a nurse in Port-Au-Prince
Julie Kelly
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Haiti Medical Missions Update
December 21. 2017
Haiti Medical Missions
GCF has created a relationship with Pastor Salonique Adolphe of Living Water Ministries at Gonaives, Haiti. By the grace of God, over the last many years Salonique and his family have developed a large church, Christian school, medical clinic, and bible college in Gonaives, Haiti. This ministry already has two church plants in the area and earlier this year they started a new Christian radio station broadcasting the gospel. In 2017 GCF took a medical team to Haiti and conducted 3 medical clinics with Salonique at the church plants, and will be taking another medical team in January 2018 to do 4 medical clinics.
GCF has created a relationship with Pastor Salonique Adolphe of Living Water Ministries at Gonaives, Haiti. By the grace of God, over the last many years Salonique and his family have developed a large church, Christian school, medical clinic, and bible college in Gonaives, Haiti. This ministry already has two church plants in the area and earlier this year they started a new Christian radio station broadcasting the gospel. In 2017 GCF took a medical team to Haiti and conducted 3 medical clinics with Salonique at the church plants, and will be taking another medical team in January 2018 to do 4 medical clinics.