Haiti Earthquake: Statement from The Global Orphan Project
The Haiti Relief Fund: A Call to Action.
At the outset, so many of you are calling wanting to help. Let us address that first. There are three things we are asking:
- Pray – James 5:16 states, The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Prayer is not a throw away. It’s primary. God can do more through your intercession than we can imagine.
- Stay Informed – We will continually update you on our blog. We encourage you to go to our site and sign-up for email updates to make things easier. You have our word that we won’t clog your in-box. We’ll simply provide meaningful updates as life unfolds.
- Give – We have set up our Haiti Orphan Relief Fund. You can mail in donations or give on-line, here >>. Note: “Haiti Relief Fund” with your donation. We commit to use 100% of these funds for our emergency relief needs and the fallout from this disaster. And we will do so with care.
The Heart of the Matter:
In our ministry – all of you here who’ve rallied to these children around the world – there is no “we/they” thought when it comes to the kids. We are a family. You, our partners in the field, and especially our children: we are a family. We have more than 2,000 children in our family in Haiti who’ve been through an awful lot. Loss of parents. Abandonment. Scraping for survival. Hurricanes. Now this.
Our family is hurting today.
You’ve no doubt heard the news from Haiti. You can follow our personal updates on our blog. Our hearts break right now, because we simply don’t know what is happening with many of our little ones and their caretakers. This morning brings another day of peace here, and growing chaos there – but no new news for our family. Commucations out of Haiti are little to none.
The early information we’ve received is that our children and partners everywhere except the Port au Prince area are OK. We don’t know this for certain at every location, but are optimistic this is the case.
We have 106 of our children and their caretakers in Carrefour, the epicenter of the quake. No word on them. We have 109 children and their caretakers in Croix de Bouqet, about 15 minutes from PAP. No word on them. We have our dear brother and Field Director, Moise Vaval, in the heart of the destruction. No word from him or his family. And we have bright, excited new employees for several business start-ups who were readying to go to work to make money to pay for orphan care. No word from them. I ask that you pray for God’s mercy on these family members.
What won’t we do here?
We won’t wring our hands and shrink back. Neither will you. We’re stepping up by the power of God.
What are we doing now? Our focus is on our family.
First, we will continue firming-up what we believe will be “all’s well” news in all locatons for all children, outside of the above.
Second, Dony St. Germain is flying to the Dominican Republic this morning, and then driving to PAP. He and Doudou will be going to the trouble spots. God willing, we will receive great news from him today.
Third, this morning we will start the process of buying additional food for our children in areas outside of PAP, and storing it in the depos we set-up last year for such a time as this. Food prices will skyrocket in the coming days. We need to move quickly on this. And we will, as circumstances allow.
Fourth, a small group of us will go to Haiti to assist, support, and assess our partners on the ground. We will do so as logistics and sound judgment dictate. Our hope is to get there on Friday.
Fifth, by God’s grace and provision, we will meet the emergency needs of our family in Haiti, whatever they are.
Sixth, we know from the hurricanes that the Lord will direct children with no one else and nowhere to go to us. We will welcome them into this family with open arms, trusting in God Almighty.
All is not lost! We stand on our Rock, Christ Jesus, and we praise Him in this storm. He has never changed. He never will. Even now, He is in control. We turn to Him, strong, and let Him do a work though us for His glory.
Faithfully yours,
Mike, Beth, Joe & The GO Project Family