Earthquake

Bernie on March 1st, 2011

Dear Friends,
My last day in Haiti last month was spent in Port au Prince making the rounds to our house projects.  It was encouraging to finally see the results of months of preparation to get this project started.  The earthquake left rubble that had to be cleared away in order to begin rebuilding.  We now [...]

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Philip on September 2nd, 2010

Dear Friends,
Thank you for your prayers!  Bernie, David Morley, and I arrived safely and without any complications in Haiti on Monday morning.  And after a couple of brief stops in Port-au-Prince, drove two hours north to Gonave Bay for the Pastors’ Conference that Starfish Ministries sponsors each year.
As I shared last month, this year’s topic [...]

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Philip on May 14th, 2010

Bernie called from Haiti this afternoon.  He sounded upbeat and energized to be back ministering to and with many old friends.
He had a window seat on the plane as he flew into Port-au-Prince Wednesday.  As the city came into view, the thing the struck him most was all the blue.  Blue?  As they descended, he [...]

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Philip on May 4th, 2010

Dear Friends,
In an email/website update on April 21, we shared a bit about how we’re moving into the next phase of earthquake relief, as we begin the process of helping families rebuild homes.  And we wanted to expand a little more on how we are approaching that.
Our philosophy in all ministry is to support and [...]

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Philip on April 21st, 2010

Dear Friends,
We wanted to take a few moments and share with you where we are in our disaster relief efforts in Port-au-Prince and how we have been using the resources you’ve helped to supply.  As Pastor Diogene indicated in our update Monday, we have supplied food to approximately 10,000 people since the earthquake in January, [...]

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Philip on April 5th, 2010

Dear Friends,
We recently published accounts of the January earthquake in Haiti by two young men who have been friends and partners with Starfish Ministries for many years.  Daniel teaches in an English-speaking elementary school in Port-au-Prince.  Mickenson is in his second year of seminary, also in Port-au-Prince.
The striking thing about their reactions to this tragedy [...]

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Philip on March 1st, 2010

Dear Friends,
The Port-au-Prince earthquake has faded from the headlines, and Haitian relief is not quite the cause of the day it was a few weeks ago.  Hollywood has finished its fundraisers and gone back to giving each other awards, and the pundits and bloggers have returned to debating healthcare.  But the work in Haiti is [...]

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Bernie on February 5th, 2010

I was able to get through to Pastor Diogene this morning.  He sounded more rested and energetic — thank you for praying for him. 
As president of the UEBH (Union of Evangelical Baptist Churches of Haiti) Diogene had an office in a STEP Seminary building.  That building was destroyed in the earthquake.  All the UEBH offices and [...]

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Bernie on February 3rd, 2010

Glenn arrived in Tricotte last night and will be spending the next few days there.  Tricotte is about 120 miles north of Port au Prince and is the location of our orphanage.   Most of our 33 elementary schools are in that general area.  Glenn will be traveling to many of those school villages in order to [...]

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Bernie on February 1st, 2010

Doug is on his way home — his family has given a great deal these past three weeks — and we thank them for that.  Doug’s work in Haiti has been so timely.  I am encouraged, watching how God has used Doug.  The gifts that Doug used during these past three weeks are an example of [...]

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