First, thanks to everyone again for being a part of buying Bibles for the kids. You’ve given a total of $4334 and we just can’t say thank you enough. It is one thing to watch one of the feeding programs, but another to watch them reading a Bible someone here bought for them. It truly is a good feeling.

Another good sign is that an electric power company from Pittsburg is investing $250 million dollars in a plant to turn the trash in Haiti into power. A report on bizjournals.com said the company has signed a 30 year agreement with the Haitian government to collect and burn trash in a 30 megawatt power plant, creating 1,800 jobs. That doesn’t sound like much to us, but there, if you ask a person what they would like to have if they could have anything, one of those things is electricity.

May 18 was Haitian flag day; they have a history of their flag, similar to ours and the day is a national holiday. This year we were able to send several of the older school children and teachers to the area and events concerning the day. This is the first time we have been able to do this and are thankful, as they were, that we could.

On a completely different note, the Pan American Health Organization has said the cholera in Haiti, which has never gone away, could strike 200,000 to 250,000 people this year. It has already killed more than 7,000. Many of the aid organizations that had been working there have left and others still there are short of medicine. But it gets even worse: The Center for Disease Control and Prevention released a report during April that said the cholera strain there is evolving into two strains, suggesting the disease would become much harder to cure or stop. Let’s all pray this year’s hurricane season will be easy on Haiti.

Again we want to thank everyone for being so faithful, especially in light of the way things are here at home. Thank you for the sponsorship giving, the general fund giving, the feeding programs and certainly the Bibles. What a great feeling that is. Thank you.

Serving HIM together,

Steve and Terry

Buying Bibles

These first three pictures show where we are buying the Bibles. They were located inside until the earthquake and now, like many others, they work out of a tent. They had just 40 to start and we ordered more. When we pick those up, they will order more. The first shows Joe in it.

Passing Out the Bibles

The first picture shows Joe passing out the Bibles.

Feeding Program

We took some new pictures of one of the feeding programs, including some of the extra kids who regularly show up.

After passing out Bibles, Steve bought snow cones for all the kids. They wouldn’t all fit in the picture, but you can see they enjoyed the treat.

April Showers Bring Floods

On the way out of Port au Prince, we happened upon these flooded homes. It’s hard to believe that just an hour and a half from Miami, people have to live like this.

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