Author: bryan@bmeyers.net (Page 68 of 101)

Friends of Haiti,

An update on Terry: Her stem cell transplant will take place on February 5th after two days of chemotherapy, six hours a day. The transplant itself will take about an hour if all goes well. After that we have 30 days of waiting to see if it’s successful. We did find out that 90% of people who have this form of treatment spend some of that 30 days in the hospital. So we’re going to pray it goes as well (except for the pain) as it has so far.

A few months ago we sent you a picture of the work Beaubrun had been doing on his school. This month we want to share a picture of his “pre-K” classes. Several years ago he started his school in a two-room house, maybe 10×20 if that big, and he has worked very hard to see it grow to 150 children now. They are 150 children who cannot attend a public school due to the cost involved. They are at school because of your giving, those who give specifically to the schools, or those who buy for the schools. This is what it goes for.

Bryan, our friend in Montana who does the posting on our website, will spend two weeks in Haiti during February. It will be his first trip back since the 2010 earthquake. All of us need to remember Bryan for a good trip there and back, and his wife Sandy for peace of mind while he’s gone.

As always thank you for you continued prayers and cards to and for Terry, all you do for us and our friends in Haiti.

Serving HIM together,

Steve and Terry

Friends of Haiti,

Happy New Year everyone!

A brief medical update: Terry’s transplant had to be delayed because of the amount of pain she is having in her legs and feet. They felt it in her best interest to find the cause before proceeding. By the 31st of December she will have had a nerve conduction test on her legs, the 5th of January see an orthopedic doctor, the 8th a neurologist and then back to the cancer doctor the 13th and we are hoping by then we get the go ahead on the transplant.

During our first trip to Haiti, some 20 years ago, the country was in turmoil over the president being deposed by the Army. President Bill Clinton had just send 20,000 troops there to help restore order. Fast forward 20 years and the country is again in turmoil, but this time with the people wanting the president to resign. The protesting to date has been fairly peaceful. Promises of prosperity have not happened and the people of the country say they can’t wait for the next election in 2016.

Except for what ministries such as ours have provided over the past 20 years, there is very little difference, then to now. 20 years ago we said, Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere, now, in an article written by Jacqueline Charles in the Miami Herald December 11 2014, 6.3 million Haitians out of 10 million are still unable to meet their basic food needs and another 2.5 million are even worse off because they live below the “extreme” poverty line.

There has been progress, it would be hard to deny that, especially in cell phone sales and expansion, but according to a U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization report in December, “almost 60 percent of the population live on $2 a day and the richest 20 percent of the households hold 64 percent of the total income in the country.” Much still remains to do.

However, we can only do what God allows and we feel with us all working together for the past 20 years, we have touched and provided for many. And just as the situation remains the same, 20 years later, so does our passion to help.

Thank you for all you do for our friends in Haiti.

Serving HIM together,

Steve and Terry