Update from Door of Hope!

Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

1st Qtr Haiti update: March 2011

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Faith is when you don't know where you will get your next meal for your family and you take in 4 orphans or widows because God told you to.

Where is your faith walk with God? Are you willing to take a step of faith when God says to GIVE, GOor DO? Are you willing to scarifice your time, money or yourself for others?

The Haitian christians walk by faith every moment of every day. Sometimes they don't know where there next meal will come from and they take orphans and widows and elderly in and feed them too. They DON'T have regular access to bibles, schooling, houses that don't leak or have floors, food, water etc. Some walk for miles to attend church and are very faithful.

Because you have been faithful to give over the past few years the christians of Bethlehem Baptist Church have been able to grow gardens, collect water, receive bibles and songbooks, start a goat and garden ministry, help young ladies learn a sewing trade, reach out and help young pregnant ladies, elderly, widows, orphans and the lost with the gospel; also send us to help disciple and evangelize. Many have come to Christ because you have given sacrificially.

Galatians 6:9 and 10 Let us not be weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity , let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

Terry and I are going to Haiti the last of May for about 6 weeks. We believe God is sending us back for a longer stay to help the church with evangelisim and to do more needed discipling. Also while we are there we want to begin working on their church and school buildings. The shape they are in if we don't get them finished and/or repaired over the next couple of years, they will start to deteriorate.

We have scheduled a golf tournament for April 16th, noon to 4:00pm at the Meadowlake Country Club Golf Course in Clinton. ALL PROCEEDS GO TO HAITI. If you know someone that likes to play, we need 18 teams of 4 per team for a 4 person scramble. Please help us get 18 teams or hole sponsors for each hole. We are setting the fee at $300 per team (which includes the cart and green fees) but if you come up with more awesome. You could ask for sponsors to help you raise your fees. The hole sponsor fee is $25 per hole or $400 to sponsor all 18. We will put a sign with your name or business name at each hole you sponsor. Please pray about giving sacrifically to help us raise $15,000 needed for our trip in May to:

*pay off the motorcycle

*begin work on the buildings

*expenses for the trip (while there will be discipling, evangelizing, equipping, helping share the sexual purity in schools because they school thru June, the pregnancy ministry, soccer evangelism, vacation bible school and whatever else God opens the door for)

Quote: "The Bible was not meant to fill our minds with a lot of biblical facts but to change lives."

For the glory of God

Terry and Carolyn

One Year Later

Today, a quarter of a million people died. The foundations of the city of Port Au Prince and the surrounding towns and villages trembled as the magnitude seven quake violently shook the ground beneath them as people fled to the safest place they could. Over the next few weeks, more than fifty aftershocks hit the decimated cities of Western Haiti.

Although immense amounts of aid has been provided, the carnage continues as Cholera, malnutrition, and exposure continue to assault this already impoverished nation. A nation teetering on the edge of Anarchy fosters more misery as women are subject to increased incidents of sexual assault. Fr the most part, things have not gotten better.

What has been done has not been enough, yet the Church seems hesitant to do more. Have we forgotten the injunctions of our Lord, and of his brother James that what we do unto the least of these, we do also to our Lord? that if we know that good that we ought to do and do not do it, that we are sinning?

Oh Lord, use my heart, and my hands to alleviate what suffering I can, to preach and speak the Gospel to a people seemingly broken beyond repair.

Amen.

Famine, Rape, and Cholera

This just in this morning from MSNBC

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40930866/ns/health/

In the midst of near anarchy, the specter of rape has arisen to torment an already desperate people. There are so many problems in Haiti that one cannot imagine the situation ever improving, but there is hope.

Let us continue to carry both bread, and the Bread of Life to these suffering people.

Dear Haiti

I have not forgotten you, the time is getting nearer, I can feel it.

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Medical, student teams headed to Haiti
Feb. 25, 2010

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The placement of Southern Baptist volunteer teams in Haiti is beginning to accelerate as new sites for involvement continue to be identified.

A medical team from Nebraska, a student team from Georgia, and a medical team with professionals from various states will be working in different locations around Haiti in the coming weeks, said Jim Brown, director of the U.S. office of BGR. The team from Nebraska will be first to arrive in Haiti on Feb. 27.

"Southern Baptists have responded to the crisis in Haiti in a powerful way through their giving and now through their going," Jim Brown said. "As we look to assist the Haitian population through medical assistance and community development, the projects we identify meet short-term needs with a big-picture perspective. Our approach is to have a tangible answer to the needs of the people - now and in the months and years to come."

Baptist partners from Haiti and the Dominican Republic are coordinating with Southern Baptist relief workers to identify project locations and places for volunteer teams to use as a base of operations, said David and Jo Brown, BGR directors of the relief efforts in Haiti.

A large portion of BGR's focus will be to displaced Haitians living in temporary, makeshift camps. According to a recent report from the United Nations, the number of people who have left Port-au-Prince since the Jan. 12 earthquake has increased to 597,801 people from the previous figure of 511,405. An estimated 160,000 persons have come from Port-au-Prince to the border area with the Dominican Republic.

At one camp in Haiti's mountainous region, "People were blocking off small quadrants with sticks, stones and tape, and small stick frames were being tied together for very small houses," Jo Brown said. "The whole mountain is full of people setting up houses. Tarps, tin, sheets, whatever is available is being used and they are burning the fields to create more room."

The Browns returned four days later with Haitian and Dominican pastors and found the camp had tripled in size. "This type of settlement is repeated over and over in Haiti," David Brown said. "Most, like this settlement, have not been engaged by any relief organizations. This is the ideal location for BGR to establish community development projects."

BGR volunteer medical teams will work from the facilities of Love a Child, a Christian humanitarian organization and orphanage located 30 minutes from the border with the Dominican Republic. Injured Haitians flooded to the facility following the earthquake, Jo Brown said.

"Outlying hospitals are still transferring patients to Love a Child," she said. "They have surgery suites in full operation and a large number of pediatric patients, many without families. Families of other patients have set up a tent city on the grounds of the property. The two medical teams we have coming to Love a Child will be a tremendous help."

Tangible needs for relief and development at BGR project locations are being met through the distribution of $255,000, which will be used for food distribution and shelters.

According to David Brown, the project involves BGR and the Dominican Republic Baptist Convention (CBD) partnering with four Haitian Baptist churches in Port-au-Prince to extend emergency aid and assistance to empower 16 other Haitian Baptist churches to minister in their respective communities.

This project involves six food distributions, personal hygiene items and supplies for temporary shelter over three months. Each food distribution will provide food to feed a family for about two weeks.

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GREAT news from Haiti!!!!

Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ

AWESOME report we received just last night, the President of Haiti has accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and public telling he is a Christian even on the radio station. Also a church we have worked at in a Port Au Prince suburb had around 2,000 people there last Sunday. Before the earthquake had been averaging 150. God is on the move and it is exciting watching Him move and humbling to be a vessel He wants to use.

It has been a month now since the devastating earthquake and we continue to pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ there plus those that are lost without Christ.
The earthquake did not cause any physical damage to the area we lived and continue to work in but Port au Prince is their lifeline for food and supplies. Trucks and buses traveled that way once or twice a week and since January 12 there has not been any. The main bank in the country has been destroyed and the few grocery stores also.

We received an SOS call from Jespert saying "if we don't receive some help to get food we will not survive". That was a difficult day with many tears and feeling helpless. But God answered their prayers and ours and made a way for us to get money to them to purchase food. January and now February we sent the regular support for the sewing class (which started back up just last week) plus extra dollars for food. Thank you to those that helped with that emergency. We have been able to send $1300 so far. We will continue to do that each month.

Also a group out of Florida, Heart of the Bride, which we have worked with for several years and they also minister in the NW in the same village where we minister, they too have been an answer to prayer. They left on Friday with a chartered plane with 13,000 pounds of food and clothing to help those in the NW but also the thousands of refugees that have fled from Port AU Prince to there. We will keep in contact with them and if they do that again see how we can help.

We will continue to send money to help where we know it will be put to good use and will wait on the report from Heart of the Bride after they return from that area to asses and hear from God what to do next. We will continue to trust God to make a way to finish the sewing classes and make a way for us to go sometime this year to present sewing machines to all the girls. But we also realize that their priority is survival and our priority is obedience to God's leading.

Please note: Our email has changed to : carolynrouton@yahoo.com
The old email address will still be accessable for a while too.

In Service together for our KING,
Terry and Carolyn Routon
503 Price Ln
Clinton MO 64735
660-924-3344
or
Good Hope Baptist Church (tax deductible donations)
806 SE Hwy 7
Clinton MO 64735
Mark on donation: for Routon's Haiti fund