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

April was a very productive month! It was also a very rainy month but productive first.

You surpassed the goal of $3000 needed to buy Bibles by $1274! What a blessing you are being to the children! When we reached the goal, Steve began buying and distributing them at the schools. We wanted to wait until we had enough for everyone before we started buying them. The business we are buying them through is located in downtown Port Au Prince. Its building was destroyed in the earthquake and now, like so many others, works out of a tent. Because of that, their stock or supply is limited. So we can buy 40 or so, they reorder, let us know, we get those, and so on. With this newsletter, we have posted pictures of the Bible purchase.

All of the kids were very excited to receive their own Bible, and during school breaks, you could see them sitting and looking at or reading them — exactly want we wanted to see! Before passing them out Steve had them promise him they would read some each night.

Then there’s the rain. It poured during April and did so even to the end of the month. During the last week of the month several were killed in areas close to dry river or creek beds, and many living in the tent cities were forced out of their homes by flood waters.

This will be a continuing problem as long as there is no other place for still almost half a million people to live. With hurricane season almost here, that threat hangs over them daily. Please remember to keep these families in your prayers.

Along with pictures of the Bible program, and the flooding, we’ve included some new pictures of one of the feeding programs.

(Click here to see more pictures.)

Thank you again for going well beyond the need asked for to buy Bibles. By doing that, you’re helping us buy more for others outside the schools and spread the Good News. We appreciate each one of you, for everything you do to help our friends in Haiti.

Serving HIM together

Steve and Terry