Commissioned Beyond Borders

Published on Jan. 30, 2010 by Buddy Walker and tagged details, haiti, relief work

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Haiti Update: In the midst of widespread devastation and pain, another story seems to be emerging: a story of unwavering faith. BBC has reported on thousands of people participating in open air church services. Though churches throughout the capital city have been destroyed, worship services are in motion everywhere.

MWOB Relief Efforts:

• Funds have been wired to Pastor Luc St. Felix and Pastor Ignace Augustin (leaders of local ministerial associations) for immediate aid to refugees. (Some supplies can be purchased in country but are expensive and we will continue to assess the best use of available funds)
• We partnered with two ministries, [Kids Against Hunger](](http://www.kidsagainsthunger.org/) and Living Waters Haiti that had room on a container for 26,000 fortified rice and protein meals which were shipped to Haiti to be distributed through local churches.
• Ted Lyke VP of MWOB will be leading a small team to go into Haiti, to Peition Ville, on Feb 3-7. He will meet with Pastor Luc and with the Pastors of the Peition Ville Ministerial Association to assay the damage and assess the best way to carry out long term support.
• We have acquired 150 water purification systems that will each deliver 300 gallons of safe drinking water per day (Each purifier can keep 600 people alive) and will be good for 1 million gallons each. The first 50 will be delivered to Pastor Luc when the team arrives in Peition Ville. The remainder is being packed into emergency relief buckets to be shipped in the next few weeks.
• Visions Beyond Border has donated 2000 lbs of powdered Baby Formula and we need funding to pay the shipping from Wyoming to Haiti ($1,200)

• Feb. 20 a relief bucket packing day at Engaging Life in Umatilla, FL. Buckets will be pre-drilled and packed with a gravity fed water purification system, first aid and hygiene products. For more information contact Shawn McCracken at 352-551-0010 or shawn@engagelakecounty.com.

• We have set the date of March 6th at Christian Life Fellowship in Cape Coral to pack a 40’ container with 285,000 meals.

• If you would like to contribute to the $40,000.00 net cost to pack and ship this, you can give online here.
• If you have a team that wants to come to Cape Coral and help on March 6th contact Christian Life Fellowship at 239-283-2299 and get signed up on the help list.
• March 13th, preparations are being made for Dr. David Wilson of Cornerstone Fellowship in Oneonta, Alabama to bring a medical team to Haiti.
• Family Bible Church in Eustis, FL has expressed a desire to help fund and organize the packing of another 40’ container of food as soon as a date can be set with Kids Against Hunger.
• Opportunities to assist with team outreaches are being planned.

Be sure to ask your relatives, friends, co-workers and people you do business with if they have done anything to help the people of Haiti yet, if not, recommend that they give online. 100% of designated Haiti relief support is used to provide resources for local Haitian pastors and churches to minister to those in greatest need.