Friends of Haiti,

Christmas 2011 is much different than our first Christmas working in Haiti. Then, we had no idea how things were going to turn out. How we would ever do the things we felt God wanted us to do or, really, how to even begin to do them?

As we said last month, some of you have been with us since that time. A family near Kansas City first, then a family in Maryland Heights, Mo. And not long after, friends in the Denver area, then Colorado Springs, Texas, Arkansas, southern Missouri, North Carolina, Montana, Indiana and the list could go on. But God knew then, just as He knows now, what lay in store for us; and He knows now who and what He will lead to cross our path in the future. If only we had some idea what lay in store for Haiti next. That, of course, is firmly in His hands; and whatever it is, we feel we are in those plans to help.

In the beginning, as with anything, you wonder if you are doing the right things, but after all this time and years, we no longer wonder if it’s “Gods will” that we do the things in Haiti all of us together are doing. We are sure it is.

Over the years we have seen a seed that was planted to provide medical care to the poorest of the poor in Haiti, grow to what it is now; one that provides not only health care,  but churches, education, nutrition, clean water to cook and drink, and counseling on many things. Some of you have provided rent money for different people who had no homes. Some have provided money to buy sewing machines for them to work and provide for themselves. One person even gave to buy a hog for a woman; she used it to raise others and supply her with meat to sell and eat. There have been so many things each of you have done or prayed about over the past seventeen years that we could point out. Space does not allow us to do that, but you and God know.

All of you have been a blessing in so many ways, this past year and in the years that have gone by. Just as we don’t have the room to say all you have done, we don’t have the room to recount all the blessings you have been to this country simply because each thing you do … each sacrifice you make for them … each dollar you give … or each prayer you offer for them … is a blessing.

With that thought in mind, we pray, as we have said many times in the past, that at Christmas this knowledge will be a blessing to you — as much of a blessing as you are and have been to Haiti.

Serving HIM together,

Steve and Terry