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EMERGENCY NEED FOR TENTS IN HAITI !The Haitian rainy season is approaching and 1,000,000 Haitian people are without shelter. The Atlantic hurricane season begins June 1. Click here for details on how you can be involved in providing tents for the shelterless of Haiti |
Friday, March 5 , 2010
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MNA Disaster Response is working to assist PCA Pastors Dony St. Germain and Brian Kelso as they lead ministries among the Haitian people. These men are MNA Senior Staff members and have been working in Haiti for many years. In order to determine how best to help these men and their ministries, MNA Disaster Response sent three assessment teams, including MNA Disaster Response Director Arklie Hooten, with pastors St. Germain and Kelso into Haiti very soon after the quake. While in Haiti our teams made contact with various ministry sites to determine how best to stage MNA Disaster Response Volunteers to respond to this terrible disaster
Please note that many phases of the response plan above cannot be fully implemented until consistent flight operations resume into Port-au-Prince and volunteer housing and other facilities are fully developed to provide a base at Carrefour for work with El Shaddai led by PCA Pastor Dony St. Germain, and similar facilities at Mirebalais for work with Great Commission Alliance led by PCA Pastor Brian Kelso.
El Shaddai, led by Dony St. Germain: Working with Church Plants, Schools and Orphanages
Currently MNA staff members are working with 42 church plants which had started prior to the earthquake and are ministering to 16,000 Haitians on a regular basis through these churches. Most of the churches have a Christian school associated with the church. Currently there are 6,000 students enrolled. They are also working with 13 orphanages that house 2,200 orphans as a ministry of mercy and outreach.
Many of the 42 church plants are in cities outside of Port-au-Prince. Because of the intensity of the destruction concentrated in Port-au-Prince the Haitian government has stated that 1,000,000 are now homeless and have fled that city in search of a more stable place to live. This large movement of people has caused many of the outlying cities to more than double in population, with no increases in infrastructure – infrastructure that was also affected by the earthquake. This has caused depletion of almost every type of resource that a city or town would normally afford.
Two Sites are currently under development to provide bases for long term work…
Working with El Shaddai, led by PCA Pastor Dony St. Germain: MNA’s initial assessment is complete and will be assisting as stated below.
MNA Disaster Response First Responders are setting up an earthquake response operation at Carrefour, a city near the epicenter of the quake. We are moving deliberately and as quickly as possible with presbytery teams rotating in and out over the next four weeks. Oasis, the facility in Carrefour being prepared, will become the headquarters for ongoing operations. We are currently gathering and shipping materials and supplies to Carrefour in advance of the arrival of the First Responders, which begins March 10th.. We expect this phase to take up to four weeks to complete. Once the Oasis volunteer facility is secure and the airport resumes consistent operations in Port-au-Prince, MNA will mobilize teams to assist in the rebuilding efforts, beginning with 30 homes of members of El Shaddai mission church members.
Working with Great Commission Alliance led by PCA Pastor Brian Kelso: MNA’s initial assessment is complete and we will be assisting as stated below.
MNA ShortTerm Missions is mobilizing short term missions teams to Mirebalais to assist with food distribution and to establish a transitional tent village for those who have migrated to the community seeking safety. Pastor Kelso is working jointly with Mirebalais’ Mayor to provide these resources to a community in desperate need. Pre-quake Mirebalais was 125,000 in population and is now approximately 300,000 according to the local government.
Updates:
MNA Is Preparing for Your Next Disaster, and We Need Your Help!
MNA Disaster Response is growing as we help all local PCA churches prepare for disaster events. As a part of this preparation, we desire to establish a critically needed, centrally located disaster response warehouse for the pre-positioning of supplies and equipment for our disaster response teams. Please click here to read more and see how you can help.
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