Pastor Peti Noel’s school.

Dear Friends in Christ,

  Today ( Monday) Micah visited both of the schools that O.S.M. helps with their feeding programs. Micah and Lussade left the Vision Forum team and tap-tapped down to Petionville to visit Pastor Peti Noel’s school first. There were about 120 children there. After spending some time with the children, they left and went down to Pastor Marc’s school. By the time they got to the second school some of the children had left to go home, but Micah said about 20 children were still there. Three-fourths of the children have lost either a parent or a sibling. One child even lost both parents in the earthquake. Some of the school children are living in tents now because their family lost their home. Many are sharing a home with relatives, which is a blessing.

  After finishing at the 2 schools Micah and Lussade rented a motorcycle tap-tap and visited a school that we used to help when we lived in Haiti. The school asked for our help to feed 120 children. Since we still don’t have full sponsorship for the 2 schools, we have had to decline. Please, pray with us that God would meet this need. For most, if not all of these families this one meal a day allows them to keep their families together. Many families who love their children have to give up their children to orphanages because they cannot provide food and care for basic needs. The Haitian people had a very difficult life before the earthquake, now things are worse. Also, the beginning of April will bring the rainy season to Haiti, which will be very hard on all the families living outside under tarps and tents. Living conditions are very sad.

  We are very grateful for your continued interest and prayers for Haiti. Micah plans to visit the Petionville school again tomorrow (Tuesday) before he travels back to the states in the evening. Please keep the team, the school children, their families and teachers, Lussade, both pastors and their families in your prayers. If you would like to send a gift to Haiti, please designate your gitf and send it to:

Only a Servant Ministries,Inc.

P.O Box 700155

San Antonio, TX 78270

Or contact us at (830)980-9609

 Thank you so much!!

Blessings in Christ,

Debbi      

Beans, Rice & Grains are available at the Port-au-Prince market.

Pastor Peti Noel and Micah.

  We are excited to share that the feeding program for Pastor Peti Noel’s school has been going fine. Monday the feeding program will begin again at Pastor Marc’s school. Because his school is in a more dangerous area, it has taken a little longer to get started.  

  After living in Haiti, we came to realize what a huge blessing a meal a day for their children can be. This meal is often the only meal a child will get all day. Because their children receive a meal, it helps enable the parents to hold their families together. These children and teachers are very grateful and blessed for it. This is sad to say, but sometimes this meal is all the pay the teachers may receive.  

  Please pray with us that all goes well tomorrow with both feeding programs. Pray that the children arrive safely and enjoy the meal and their time at school with their teachers and the other children. And pray for the teachers as they minister to the children. We are very grateful for your prayers and continued interest in Haiti.  

Children playing soccer

Sewing at the Dorcas House.

  Saturday night we picked Micah up from the airport in San Antonio. We praise the Lord for his safe trip and the many opportunities He gave Micah to help minister to Haitians and Americans. Through these weeks of working in PAP, he has been forced into situations that were out of his comfort zone.

  Micah helped John Leininger with a great deal of paperwork for the orphan children’s release to the US. He spent several days helping make files, check spelling, and handwriting documents from the American Embassy’s required paperwork. While at the orphanage, he took time throughout the day to hold and play with the children whenever he could. Sometimes he would hold Neemie a baby girl who had pneumonia and needed to be held upright for hours at a time.

  Micah helped Lussade host the Vision Forum team which was a first and definitely not what Micah had envisioned himself doing in Haiti. The team stayed in Lussade’s home. They were there to make videos from a Christian perspective about what is happening in PAP. If you would like to see some of their documentaries go to www.visionforum.com and then click on ‘Doug’s Blog’.

  Another “new” experience Micah told us about was having two grown men break down on his shoulder. Both men are close friends of ours and had seen some very sad and disturbing things after the earthquake. Pastor Etean was in Cayes when the earthquake hit. He immediately loaded his car with supplies and drove into PAP. As he was driving into Port, the roads were filled with debris from the buildings, and dead bodies, sometimes blocking the road so that he would have to wait to get by. He gave out his supplies to people in need and helped where he could. Later as he was relaying his story to Micah, he broke down on Micah’s shoulder.

  Another dear friend, Whistler, a Haitian medical student, was in PAP with his family when the earthquake hit. He went to a medical clinic in Cayes and was busy right away caring for victims. When he saw Micah at the orphanage, he broke down and let it all out. 

  Micah hugged, talked to and prayed with both men. He felt ill equipped to handle this but we told him that he did all that he could do. It’s hard to know how to minister to men who are emotionally spent, but a hug and prayer are always a blessing and an encouragement. We realize that along with the physical rebuilding for Haiti, there will a need for lots of hugs and prayers over the next several months. So many people have lost so much, only the Lord Jesus Christ will be able to bring true healing and comfort to Haiti.     

 Hi Dad and Mom, I’m writing another Haiti update:

  Today we went to the embassy for half of the day and they basically said that they were still reviewing the adoption papers. Which means nothing is being done yet. A little discouraging. And we have been going to Deli-Cat and Mr. Barry is doing fine and still has the best, if not the only Ice-Cream in Haiti. (Deli Cat is where we exchange money and Mr. Barry is Iranian) 

  A few days ago, we were driving into Carrefour and we were approaching a large crowd. At the front of the crowd there was a man covered in blood, and people were beating him with clubs. Directly in front of us, there was a Police truck, but he just kept driving on. Later we learned that the man had stolen a CD player that he was actually still holding it in his hand.

  Another time we were driving through downtown P-A-P looking at all the destroyed buildings. There was a crowd stoning and beating a man with clubs while he was on the ground. It was so sad to see. But Jean Fritz told us that the prison where 4,000 of Haiti’s worst criminals lived was totally destroyed and all the prisoners escaped into P-A-P. He said that now it (Haiti) is ruling by the people. Kinda scarey.

  We have a 13 year old boy named Rood staying here at the orphanage. Doug Phillips’ team found him in a tent city. He told us that he had lost his Dad, Mom, Sister, and Brother after his house collapsed on top of them. He had to have his arm amputated after they pulled him out from under his home. He said that his Mom held him and put her head into his chest to protect him. He was buried for 5 days, in that time his Mom died and he was still holding on to her body. So he has been through a lot to say the least. And tonight Dr. Whistler was changing his dressing that is around the amputated arm and Rood passed out for about ten minutes. We think that he passed out because of the pain and that he was dehydrated also. But we started an IV on him and gave him some Gatorade and an antibiotic so he is happy and doing fine now.

  Tuesday morning Pastor Peti-Noel and Pastor Mark are coming so that I can talk to them about the schools and beginning the feeding programs again. Well I am not feeling very good again but I hope that it is just a small cold. If I think about anything else I will send it to you. I love you all and covet your prayers continuously. Let me know if I need to do anything to help you.

Micah

  Since Micah wrote this, he and Ken (through phone) have now talked to Pastors Peti Noel and Marc. The Pastors feel that it is safe enough now to begin the feeding program for the school children again, praise the Lord. Thank you for your prayers for safety for Micah, Lussade and the children when the food arrives and is served during these desperate times in Haiti.