Haiti Update

I wanted to share with you about our latest trip to Haiti. We hit the ground running and pretty much ran all week. It is one of the few trips where we were able to do everything on our agenda. The small MAF plane that flew us all over Haiti to our mission bases was the same plane that Debbie and I flew in many times in the jungle. It was not the one we crashed in, that one is still in the bottom of the Padamo River. This one was part of the Venezuela MAF program. When the Venezuela program shut down, this plane was relocated to Haiti. I felt right at home! One of our board members, Dr. McCarthy, was there with her medical team and saw patients from all over, but most important they saw 49 precious souls receive Christ. Another board member, Mark Cleland, and his daughter Casey along with my sister Donna were on our team. I was honored to preach a little and we were able to help some with the feeding program, the school staff and medical program; but our goal was to get to know better and encourage our wonderful missionaries that struggle day in and day out all over Haiti.

I think the most touching time to me was when a small boy brought his infant brother to the medical team asking for help. He had been taking the little fellow to the voodoo witchdoctor for a while but the baby was no better. When the doctor looked at the baby she realized that he probably had only hours to live. He was blind with gonorrhea in his eyes and his mother had just died from aids so he probably had it also. He was also very dehydrated. The last we heard about little Lavinsky was the family decided to leave him with the missionary and he was improving. (Lavinsky is the baby pictured.) It made me realize once again how fortunate we are here in the states and how needy people are all over the world.

Thank you for your prayers and financial support as we work to take the love of Christ to the utter most parts of the world.

For more information about a mission trip to Haiti,
please contact Jim Hambrick at (904) 704-8715, or
Email: Jim@christianlightfoundation.com
Mark your calendars! Our next scheduled trip is November 10-15.

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you may mail your checks to:

Christian Light Foundation
P.O. Box 23881
Jacksonville, Florida 32241-3881
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