Building Homes

We are in the midst of re-building homes for pastors in our mission who lost them during the earthquake. We have built pastor Jeanty's home, partially built pastor Sauveur's home and practically finished with pastor Jose's home. Attached you will find pictures of pastor Jose's home with his family in front of it. We are presently building pastor Nelson's home.

Pastor Dody's Shelter

The next home we want to build is for pastor Dody Duverseau. When his home collapsed, he and his wife barely made it out alive. Their whole household is still under the rubble, and unsalvageable. He had two foster children, one of them died in the earthquake and the other lost her arm. It is heart breaking to hear their story.

We have five more pastor homes we want to build. I ask you to put yourselves in their shoes. Imagine being in a tent or make shift shelter 10 ft by 10ft covered with tarps for 10 months with what little worldly possessions you have left. Imagine being in there with temperatures over 100 degrees; imagine at night when it rains, water comes through the cracks or runs across your floor and you have to stand up all night; imagine no kitchen, no bathroom, no shower; imagine basically living outside and doing everything outside, going inside only to sleep.

We can build a home for one of these pastors for $12,000. We are unable to continue building homes without your help. What better Christmas present could we give our fellow laborers in Christ who give their lives daily caring for God's flock? Won’t you help us give these pastors a home for Christmas?

Perhaps you can only do a portion of a house. Perhaps only a few blocks, or a door, or a few pieces of tin for the roof. Don’t think that you have to do it all by yourself. In Haiti we have a saying, “Anpil men, chay pa lou.” (With many hands the load is not heavy.) If we each give a portion we can achieve much for the Lord and in the lives of these pastors.

Yours in Christ,

Roger & Margaret Clark

You may send your gifts to Elim Fellowship, 1703 Dalton Road, Lima, NY 14485. Please mark them "preferred for Roger Clark - Pastor's homes".

In the Thick of Things

Greetings in the name of our Lord!

We are still in the thick of things. We had a group recently from Virginia who worked on one of our pastors houses. Pictures of this house will soon be coming. Today, we have sent our Haitian foreman to begin building another home for another pastor in our mission. There are still 1.5 million people homeless. With your help we will build one home at a time. It doesn't seem like much in the scheme of things, but it means a lot to those who now are out from under their tent. I can't imagine living in a tent for 9 months.

Our Bible school is open and going full speed ahead. We have over a hundred students attending. Please pray that God supplies for their schooling. You could help us provide a scholarship for a student by giving $25 a month or a one time donation of $300.

Pray that God continues to give us strength and wisdom as we serve the Haitian people. Pray for the elections that will take place on November 28th.

August Update 2010

Dear Friends, Family, and Ministry Partners,
We greet you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ! We thank God for you all, and pray that He will bless you in every way.
We thank the Lord for the group that came from Abbeville. LA. Their church is part of WME. They truly had servant’s hearts and were a blessing to many. Most of the people on the group were very skilled. They accomplished more than we thought they would on our church building. Lord willing the next group will do the remaining pillars and begin on the walls.
This week we received some food aid for our churches and will be distributing it in the weeks to come. So many people are desperate. Still about 1.5 million people are displaced and living in tents and shelters covered with tarps. Yesterday, we had a hard rain and high winds. Many of the tarps and tents were torn.
We have built two homes and one room of a house for one of our pastors so that he can get out of his tent and the rain. As funds come in we will continue on this pastor’s house. We hope by the end of the year to have built 8 homes.
We continue to make minor repairs on our home and Bible school building. Bible school will open on September 6th; pray that God sends many students who are zealous for Him.
There will be Presidential and Parliament elections in November. Pray that God raises Daniel's and Nehemiah's to lead this nation in the way of the Lord. Haiti needs a strong Godly leader who will not miss manage all the aid being given for Haiti 's reconstruction.
Thanks once again for your prayers and financial support of our ministry.


Yours in Christ,Roger & Margaret Clark

Update July 24th 2010

Dear Friends and Family,

We want to thank you all for your prayers and support of us and the Lord's ministry.


Soon after we got back to Haiti we began to prepare for our next work team which arrived on July 8th. It was a group of 12 Full Gospel Community Church in Warsaw NY. They worked very hard on our New Life Church in Croix des Mission and accomplished much despite the 100 plus degree temperatures. We thank the Lord for their service to His kingdom.


The past twelve days have been tough for Margaret and I. Margaret had a relapse with her back and has been in bed all day except for short intervals where she walks around the house with the help of a walker. On top of this, our missionary chiropractor has left for a month vacation. Yet, God is helping us. He sent a visiting chiropractor just a couple of days ago who gave her one treatment. Also, a missionary friend has loaned us a portable traction table which we are using daily to decompress Margaret's back. With this and prayer she is improving. Believe together with us for Margaret's complete healing. Pray as well for me, as I have a lot of aches and pains in my legs and knees.


We have been working on making repairs and improvements on our home and Bible School building. We thank the Lord for our engineer (construction manager) who comes to supervise all our construction teams.


Besides, our church reconstruction. We are in the process of rebuilding one of our pastors homes. We hope he will be able to move in within a couple of weeks.


Pray for the many Haitians who are still living in tents and make shift homes. It has been raining almost every night and hurricane season is fast approaching. Pray that God gives the Haitian government and international community wisdom in rebuilding this nation. We know that God is on the throne and He will do great and mighty things for this nation.
Yours in Christ,

Roger & Margaret Clark

Home

We are glad to be back home in Haiti. It has been a good 25 years. Wow!

We came back. Hoping to see some improvements, but sadly there is very little change. The Haitian and international governments seems to be doing very little. If it wasn't for the non-profit organisations and mission groups and all those who have been coming for almost six months now, things would be much worse. There is still rubble everywhere, no large housing projects to get people out of the tent cities, and very little construction. Those who are building are doing it without permits because the government is still unwilling to give any permits. In some cases they are stopping people from re-building their homes and businesses.

We have a team coming from Warsaw, New York to help us continue building the mother church of our mission (New Life Church of Croix des Mission) that is pastored by Jeanty Osnac. We know that they will be a blessing. Also, in the near future we will begin to re-build two other churches in our mission.

After they leave, we will continue to re-build peoples homes. We have already re-built two complete homes and helped others repair their homes. 

Pray that God gives us wisdom and strength. We thank all those who have been praying for us and giving towards us and the Haitian people. We will not be dismayed because our help and hope are in the Lord.

Update - June 12th,2010

For those who are following this blog, we wanted to give you a little up-date. We left Haiti May 6th to Florida where we spent a few days and picked up our  daughter at South Eastern University. We then went from there to Plano, Texas to  spend some time with my family. We  spent a week there and then returned to Florida and sent our daughter off to Burkina Faso, Africa. From there we went up to Lima,NY.

Margaret and I have been in New York for several weeks now. We have been visiting freinds and churches. Also, we attended the Elim leadership conference. The first day of conference, Margaret's back went out so she could not attend the rest of it. She has been seeing a Chairopractor and improving with prayer.

Now some say, have you had any rest. Yes! We have believe it or not. We are enjoying the missionary apartment that Elim provides for the mission.

We will be returning on June 26th to Haiti.

Haiti Update April 25th

Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ! He is still on the throne.

Haiti is slowly on the way to recovery. Many of the primary and secondary schools have opened. Most of them are meeting under tents or in temporary wooden shelters. Even those which have not sustained any damage are not meeting in their building because parents are unwilling to send their children to a school that has a concrete roof out of fear that another quake will come.

Once again this month we had two groups simultaneously here with us, 9 from New York, and  6 from Mexico. Originally the one from Mexico was going to go out to our country church to begin building, but we were unable to get the materials on location before they arrived. Therefore, we put them together with the other group to work at our New Life church in Port-au-Prince. This is the second team that has put their efforts to this important task. The first team put in the footers (the base for the pillar). The second team which just left Thursday prepared forms for five pillars and poured three. This is very hard work in temperatures of 100 degrees and high humidity.

The Mexican team was God ordained. We had been wondering how we were going to open our school in Demier because the building was destroyed in the earthquake. A few days before the team came; we were given a 40 by 60 ft. tent for the school. We wandered how we would get up to Demier, and who would put it up since we had never done anything like this. When the Mexican team came, we found out that one of them put tents up for a living. Wow! God has everything in control. Therefore, we sent three of them up with the tent to install it. You must realize, this is no easy feat. The tent was large and had to be transported in our new long bed truck. This required three hours on mountain roads, one of these were over very bad roads. When we arrived at the end of the road, we dropped off the tent tarps, and poles which had to be carried in on foot for 3 hours. The church people met the group of three visitors, and hauled the tent in. The tarps were so big and heavy that it was carried by two men who had a pole on each shoulder and the tarp on the posts between them. The team of three Mexicans went in one day, set up the tent and walked back out the following day, talk about intense physical exertion. Praise the Lord! The school is now opening and functioning under the tent.

We want to thank all those who have come since the earthquake. They have been a blessing to many and made a great difference. Also, we could not do what we are doing without the prayers and support of the saints.

We will be leaving for the States on May 5th for a much neede break and a time of visiting family, friends and churches.