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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In late October 1994, Steve Smith came out of a surgical suite carrying a hand full of supplies that had been opened but not used or contaminated. A nurse, coming out of an adjoining room did the same, asked him what he was going to do with his and he told her he saved them for organizations going to and working in other countries. Although no longer sterile, there is a great need for supplies like these as long as they are clean.

She asked if she could give his phone number to a group making plans to go on a mission trip that could possibly use some of what he had. Twenty four hours later, Steve had been invited to make his first missionary trip and to Haiti. This came three days after a prayer group at their church had prayed God would open a door to the mission field for him.

After spending the last week of 1994 and the first week of 1995 in Haiti, Steve and Terry, along with their pastor and three friends, sat down on Saturday the second weekend of March 1995, set the ground work for the ministry, and gave it its name: Haitian Islands Ministry, or as it is known now, HIM. Steve says, “I wish now we could take credit for the name but that was our pastor’s idea and I guess in hindsight it sounds better than my name: Haitian Outreach Project, or HOP — although around Easter that might sound okay.”

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