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Friends of Haiti,

Beaubrun and family

This is Beaubrun and his family. There are two other children but this is such a good picture of him and his wife, we decided to use it anyway.

Beaubrun has been working with us longer than anyone, starting in the summer of 1996. At first, like Joe, he acted as translator for us and those who came with us or on their own. He was also enrolled in Port Au Prince Christian Bible School, then a four year school. HIM helped him with costs, books and whatever we could provide to help. At one point, we bought him reference books that caused his grades to go up so much and so quickly that one of the teachers thought he was cheating. That’s something we still laugh about.

Because of his knowledge of the Bible, Beaubrun is the person we place with those who come to work with the churches or those doing Vacation Bible school in the villages. He also oversees the school in Bayelle, helps with the feeding programs, and preaches in different churches.

Like Joe, Beaubrun has become much more than just someone who works with us; he is a very good and faithful friend. To say he is protective would be an understatement. He is always watching out for us and those who come to work.

Beaubrun, like Joe and others, have no other means to earn a living or support their families besides working in missions. And HIM, like so many ministries, depends on men and women like this, who are as involved as they are and who want to help those in need.

We don’t know what we would do without friends like this helping us, and we surely couldn’t even begin to do anything without your help and prayers. We and they appreciate all you do to help.

Serving HIM together,

Steve and Terry

Friends of Haiti,

Haiti Joe This month is Joe’s month.

Joe began working with the ministry in 1997. At first he worked as an interpreter for me and the groups that come down to work with us. He has an excellent command of the English language, and speaks Spanish as well and French and Creole.

Joe’s real name is Pierre Louis Joseph Edmond, but to all of us he is Joe. He and his wife Wislene have three children: a son who is 17, a daughter 14, and another son who is 10. The daughter and youngest son attend his school in Delmas, which is a suburb of Port Au Prince.

Joe is one of those people who can “get it done,” and if he can’t he knows someone who can. He’s a person who can’t sit still and doesn’t accept the statement, “Well, this is just the way it is.” Besides that, he has become a very good and trusted friend. I’m not sure I have a better friend than Joe.

Currently Joe oversees the school in Delmas, taking care of things when I’m not there, He relays information about needs there and in other areas we work. Without the help and oversight he provides, it would be very hard to keep things running as smoothly as they do.

Joe and his family, like so many in missions in Haiti, depend on the monthly sponsorship giving for his school and from working with us to live. He also has an elderly mother he cares for, and all the needs of a man with a family in one of the poorest countries in the world. He has told us many times that without the ministry he is not sure how his family would live. Knowing him as we do, he would find a way, but God has placed him in our ministry and lives, and we are thankful for the provisions we can supply for them.

If anyone would like to send a gift for him or his family, we know it would be a blessing to them and as always, we appreciate the sacrifice you make each for the schools, the feeding program and the ministry.

Serving HIM together,

Steve and Terry