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MIA BlogSpot | January, 2010

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January 25, 2010
Posted by Steve McGee

Roland Joynes returned from Haiti on Friday and gave us an update on the situation there. Roland has led teams for MIA for the past 20 years, many of these teams for natural disasters. Roland took in supplies from the Bahamas via chartered jet. He was able to give them to Christian leaders on the ground there. We had a staff meeting to plan and organize relief in Haiti:
• Hyacinth and the Miami office staff have sent into Haiti by air cargo, supplies of water, food, medicines, clothing, etc. to The Littlest Angels Orphanage.
•Dr. Silvia Martinez, MIA Missionary in the Dominican Republic, has been traveling across to Haiti and working in the Jacmel area. She makes trips back to the Dominican Republic to purchase supplies that require a doctor’s prescription.
•Dr. Silvia Martinez will lead a caravan next week - a medical team (from Santo Domingo) carrying relief supplies and medicines, accompanied by security provided by the Dominican Republic security guards.
•Dr. Steve Wolffe, CEO of the Indiana Regional Hospital, and member of Graystone Presbyterian Church, will supply us with some much needed 24 and 25 gauge Jelco IV needles (needed for children).
•MIA has arranged for the accommodation of medical teams in Port-au-Prince at the Guest House (which was completed and used by MIA as such in the past). We plan to also use our project in Cotin (between Port-au-Prince and the Dominican Republic) as another point of operation. Many people are moving out of Port-au-Prince to unaffected areas in Haiti (i.e., Aux Cayes, Conin (off the mainroad to the Dominican Republic) and other communities that are accessible to our teams.
•Nurse Joan Page-Bain is on-site in our clinic at Guichard, and will network with the multitudes of ailing Haitians who have returned to Aux Cayes from Port-au-Prince seeking help at Hospital Lumiere on the compound where MIA began its work in Haiti 40 years ago.

How You Can Help: We have requested the pastors of several churches (in the U.S.) to ask their members to bring to church unopened (not outdated) OTC pain relievers such as Advil, Tylenol, and Aleve, as well as antibiotic wipes and creams, which they will send to our office in Miami for shipping to our medical teams. All the churches we contacted were enthusiastic in their response. Donations in kind help us to stretch our dollars in this worthy cause.

In the next two weeks, Roland, Bresile and possibly Pastor Kevin will meet with six Haitian pastors in Port-au-Prince, who have been involved with us in our ongoing ministry in Haiti. These godly and dedicated servants of Christ will be involved not only in our relief effort, but will also give leadership, together with our staff and missionaries in our recovery effort in the future. Kathryn Stephens, our director of Medical Missions, is developing a short and long-term strategy and proposal.

Praise God with us for the generous response from our friends for funding for this God-honoring opportunity. Don’t miss out - you too can give and pray and go.

January 19, 2010
Posted by Steve McGee

The news coming out of Haiti is still fluid. Roland Joynes, an MIA associate who leads teams into Haiti, is flying into Haiti today from the Bahamas. Roland will try to make contact with our missionaries in Port-au-Prince and visit the Oasis Guest house. Our goal is to find adequate facilities to house medical teams and work teams to provide immediate help.

The senior staff of MIA had a meeting with some US Air Force Personnel from Homestead AFB to see if MIA can ship supplies to Haiti through Homestead AFB and to see if they can help with field tents in order to set up medical facilities and housing.

Right now we are partnering with two other mission organizations - Haiti Great Commission Alliance and Double Harvest. Both organizations need Medical Personnel. If you are a health care provider and are interested in helping out in Haiti, please contact MIA and we will put you in contact with one of these organizations.

A big thanks to all the Miami staff of MIA who have been working so hard over the past week. We are all mentally and emotionally drained. Please keep up all in your prayers and please continue to pray for Haiti!

January 16, 2010
Posted by Steve McGee

We have received new information regarding our personnel in Haiti:

Pastor Solange Joseph (MIA Missionary, Church Growth) and his family are fine.
Nurse Joan Bain (MIA Haiti, Medical): She and her family are fine.
Pastor Eneck (MIA Missionary, Church Growth) and his family are safe and sound!
The medical clinics and guest house are fine.
Sam Rice a former MIA missionary is fine. His home is not damaged.
Pastor Bresile St. Germain's family is fine.
The medical clinics in Guichard and Dariol are fine. We are still waiting for information from Flamand.
The Oasis guest house built by MIA in Carrefour is fine.

Please pray that roads will be opened soon so that supplies can be quickly routed to the earthquake victims. Pray for quick recovery for those still trapped in debris and for civil stability.

January 13, 2010
Posted by Steve McGee

We are deeply saddened by the news that hundreds of thousands of lives were potentially lost in yesterday’s earthquake, located outside Port-au-Prince. One of our Miami staff members has received word that a member of her family was killed. We are still awaiting word concerning the well-being of our own missionary families.

MIA has established a dual goal where Haiti is concerned: We will meet the immediate physical needs. Once the initial crisis has subsided, we will meet the long-term physical, medical and spiritual ones.

We are actively soliciting immediate donations of food, water, and clothing. We have already been in contact with other reliable, reputable mission organizations in the US to ensure that these donations are quickly transported and immediately available to churches in Haiti. Roland Joynes, who is our MIA associate and leads teams for us to Haiti, will be in Haiti this weekend, making a firsthand assessment.

Bresile St. Germain, our Haitian director, is contacting pastors and churches that MIA has established a working relationship with in the past. We will also be working with his son, who is a pastor in Haiti, and other mission organizations.

Our long-term goal is to work with churches and church leaders in helping their members rebuild their homes. Through Project Ebenezer we will assist these churches in establishing social transformational projects, empowering them for long-term sustainability.

MIA is doing all it can to bring relief to Haiti quickly. Please make any special donations to MIA with a notation that it is for the Haitian Relief Fund.

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