Greeting in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ!
We trust all is well with you. We want to thank you once again for your financial contributions and prayers for us and the people of Haiti.
Much is still the same. They are continually clearing rubble and working slowly on establishing refugee camps (glorified tent cities). It rained hard last night which was a mixed blessing. The country needed the rain, but many thousands of people were soaked.
We thank the Lord that we have already rebuilt one of our pastors homes and his family is out of the rain. Yet, we are sad knowing that two of our other pastors in New Life Mission are still camping out in tents.
For one week we have had three teams staying with us, a total of 25 people. Several pitched tents on our flat concrete roof. The city stopped piping water into our house over a week ago, as a result our water tank went dry and the team was without water for three days. We had to do a bucket brigade each day from a neighbors home who still had water in his tank. We eventually got a truck load of water that we had ordered two day previous to this.
The teams have been great! They have done food distribution, evangelized in the tent cities, preached in our churches, and blessed our people with many needed things. Also, they worked very hard on the foundation of New Life Church of Croix des Mission which is pastored by Jeanty Osnac. This was the first church that we planted in the mission.
Part of the team worked on pastor Sauveur's house that was severely damaged in hopes that they could repair it. In the end they realized that it could not be resurrected and resigned themselves to the fact that the two story structure had to be torn completely down.
Pray for safety for all our brothers and sisters in the Lord as crime is on the rise due to the destitute situation in the country. Pray for the hundreds of thousands of people who are still homeless. The need all around us is overwhelming, but we take one step and one day at a time as God allows us to help the people of Haiti. We could not do this without your continued prayers and support.
May God richly bless you in every way!
Roger & Margaret Clark
