Haiti
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.
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Dr. Mike explaining medicines to Mattanie Paul a nurse in Port-Au-Prince
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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.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.
Haiti Clean Water Well Drilling Update
December 13. 2017
Haiti Clean Water Well Drilling Team
As of November 2017, the well drilling team has drilled 32 wells at area churches!! The team has also installed a portable water filter system at these churches, which eliminates 99.9 % of all harmful bacteria from the water.
As of November 2017, the well drilling team has drilled 32 wells at area churches!! The team has also installed a portable water filter system at these churches, which eliminates 99.9 % of all harmful bacteria from the water.