Commissioned Beyond Borders

Published on Feb. 25, 2010 by Ted Lyke and tagged haiti, relief work, reports

As the large News Agencies coverage is tapering down regarding Haiti, the USA Ministries and Churches are continuing to step up.

Missions Without Borders works in partnership with many different organizations to optimize relief funding and distribution efforts.

Thank you to the many individuals and organizations which have contributed financially towards the following initiatives:

• Feb 20th Engaging Life in Umatilla, FL, pastored by Shawn McCracken, and MWOB held a workday to pack 125 buckets with water purifiers and medical supplies. Tarps, tents and power tools for concrete demolition were also included and placed on a shipping container bound for Haiti. 71 people worked on the project and interestingly 41 of them came from the local community thanks to (Disney’s, Give a Day Get a Day Project). Family Bible Church of Eustis, FL also purchased tents and made financial contributions towards shipment costs.
• Feb 23rd We have confirmation that the shipment of 30,000+meals that Christian Life Fellowship got from Kids Against Hunger (Thank you Steve Popper) arrived at the distribution center just north of Port Au Prince at a ministry called Global Outreach. Another USA based ministry that we partner with called Living Waters Haiti led by Fred Chalker, has one of their pastors, Etienne, present at the center coordinating the delivery and distribution of the shipments. Pastor Luc, a leader of the local ministerial association was on site today picking up the first shipment of food which will be distributed through local churches.
• Josh Neese from On The Go Ministry in Nashville reported they have acquired 200 of the water purifiers, along with other medical and housing materials to ship into Global Outreach ASAP.
• Feb 27th Buddy Walker of MWOB will be going into Haiti for 5 days, this is an advance trip with Dr/Pastor David Wilson of Cornerstone Fellowship to plan for the arrival of medical and ministry teams during the month of March. Arrangements for the making of a documentary video of how Haitian churches are ministering to their local communities will be made through the help of Dynamic Church Planting Int. and Youth With A Mission.
• March 6th at Christian Life Fellowship in Cape Coral, 3 teams of 300 people will come together to pack 285,000 meals purchased from Kids Against Hunger and volunteers from several other MB Fellowship Churches in Florida with the help of many other churches from SW Florida. The container will start its journey with food, tents and other supplies to Haiti on the 8th of March.
• March 13th the next large team of 70, led by Dr David Wilson will travel to Haiti. Some of our friends from Keith Cooks’ On The Go Ministry will be on this trip as well to start planning trips in May – Aug 2010

What you can do:

• Continue to pray for Haiti and the people of Haiti. May 1st the hurricane season starts and they will need protection.
• The top requested need right now is tents for some of the 2+million homeless to live in for the near future.
• Maybe your family or you along with a few friends could come up with a way to buy and send a tent as a love gift to Haiti (Best recommendation is 8+person tent)
• Think big and search for corporate contributors on line that could donate things like dump trucks, front end loaders, other tools for demolition or big circus type tents that churches can set up to meet in for the next few years while they serve people first and build buildings later.
• Look for a place to lay down your life by giving of your time Like March 6th at CLF packing food.
• Contribute money to help with the Shipping and purchase of food, medical supplies and tents for Haiti.