Haiti Relief
January 13, 2010 by Christian H
Filed under Haiti Relief
I’m sure all of you have heard the news regarding a 7.0 earthquake that has hit Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere. To say that this is a massive humanitarian nightmare is an understatement. Millions of people … mothers, fathers, children … are all directly affected. Before we discuss how to help, I’d like to ask that you take a few minutes and pray. Ask The Lord to move in a supernatural way to bring relief to those affected.
The first step in disasters like this is to get food, water and medical attention to the victims. There will be hundreds of organizations that will be involved in providing these essentials. One that I am aware of is Compassion International. They have a presence in the area and are mobilizing. They have a webpage set up for donations located here. If you know of other Christian organizations that are present in the area, post a comment to this thread.
The next step will be providing short and long term assistance such as housing, clothing, etc. If your LifeGroup is interested in creating a temporary Impact Group to help in this area (such as collecting clothing donations) let us know and OKCLeaders will promote your efforts.
The task is daunting, but nothing is beyond our Lord and the Body of Christ. Discuss in your LifeGroup how you can help and pray for the victims and the rescuers.
“Back to Christ” Lifegroup would like to give a clothing donation. We need to know where we can take this donation. Please let us know. We are all very interested in helping provide relief to these victims.
Clothing and other items like that will be needed soon. I’ll keep everyone informed of what I know. What would be great is if there is a LifeGroup willing to collect items like that for when we find an avenue to deliver them.
Here’s a comment that was posted on NWOKCLeaders.com:
Jim Pierce says:
January 14, 2010 at 9:56 am (Edit)
Steve Hollingsworth runs His Healing, Helping Hands International Ministries (4H.I.M.), a missions organization based here in Oklahoma City. He sent me the following email this morning:
Hello Friends,
4H.I.M. is a member of TECH (Technical Exchanage For Christian Healthcare) , an association of ministries. This is an email from one of our partners in Haiti.
Dear Danny,
Dear TECH members,
Dear Pastor “Wallace,
Thank you very much for your good words and for your thoughts with regards to the earthquake that badly hit part of Haiti.on jan 12. I was still at the Mission when it happened.
Believe me, it has been quite an unpleasant experience for us all. From the strength of it, we anticipated that the Misssion’s hospital ‘Hopital De Fermathe” would have to assume the responsibility to take care of the population in the Fermathe area. Indeed, within hours, the hospital started receiving the first patients. In no time, we were overwelmed by the importance of cases coming to us crying for help. People came from Delmas, from Petion Ville, from Kenscoff and from Fermathe.
As we were concerned about their number coming to us, with only two doctors present at the hospital and the nurses on duty, God sent 16 medical doctors and their staff to help us out.They were missionaries on their last day in country. They also had medication which also helped. We did respond to the need the best we could
and we have taken care, during these two days, hundreds of patients. All our 84 beds were taken and people were on the floor, at the OR and at the emergency room. It was 2am when we stopped receiving patients on the first day.We had no idea of the importance of the dammages in other part of the country and in particular in Port-au-Prince, Leogane and Jacmel area.
The cases we received today were among the worse and we could not address all of them.
We did release those who didn’t have severe injuries, after treatment, and kept a more than we could handle
in our facilities.
It is only today that I realize that CNN was not exagerating in saying that the number of death will reach well over 100.000. We are finding dead people everywhere.
We could address this problem because we have been always supported by friends of the Mission and by many TECH members who have always helped the hospital. Thanks very much to you all.
We still need plaster, bandages, antibiotics, SAT injections, sutures, orthopedic hardware,
anesthesia, and any other immerdency items etc.
Dead people are being found here and there and the number is rapidly increasing. Many big buildings colapsed and we will not find the bodies.
Unfortunately, Dr. Gerard Agenor, the Director of the Community health’ proram has been killed with the colapsing of his residence, One of our devoted driver, Rogen, also died under the same circomstances. Dispite all that, the Fermathe area has suffered much less than those in Port-au-Prince.
The chimney and a wall at the dining room of the Mission are gone but we didn’t suffer much structural dammages.
We thank God who saved us and our families and we pray for the family of those who didn’t make it.
In Christ,
Jean Angus
Until all have heard,
Steve Hollingsworth, President
4 H.I.M.
2410 W. Memorial Rd
Suite C #133
OKC, OK 73134
405-473-3214
okc4him@yahoo.com
http://www.4-him.net