Work has begun on the roof on the church at Malasi as supplies — purchased with funding provided by Climbing For Christ supporters — arrived today.
Truck with supplies for Malasi: food and roofing materials.
Climbing For Christ has purchased materials to replace the roof that Tropical Storm Isaac blew off the church at Malasi. Those materials — wood, tin and nails — along with food for the people are being transported Thursda...
Food was delivered to the people at the churches at Gentilhomme and Thoman on Sunday. Missionary Miguel Ruben Guante reports that Milus, a church leader from Thoman who serves with us, “told me the people are very happy.”
Children in the Gentilhomme church, above, keep an eye on t...
More than US$15,500 has been raised to help with Haiti storm relief and to pay for cancer surgery for Pastor Blanco of the Climbing For Christ church at Jimani. Blanco is scheduled to undergo surgery next week.
In the meantime, food has been purchased as the first of three stages of assistanc...
Pastor Vilcuis reported from the church at Malasi that 90 people worshiped the Lord despite having a building that lost its roof in the winds of Tropical Storm Isaac.
“I'm very happy to know much people were worshiping today under the sun,” missionary Miguel Rubén Guante sa...
It was as if Satan had punched me in the stomach. I felt suffocated and I wanted to cry. It was painful to see the photo of the roof stripped off the church at Malasi – the second we were blessed to build just 2½ years ago. That was Wednesday evening (see “Mission Moment” be...
Tropical Storm Isaac peeled back the tin roof of the church at Malasi like a can opener, leaving the contents exposed. Original reports of damage done by the storm were not exaggerations. Haitian missionary Miguel Rubén Guante was sent to report on the aftermath in villages where Climbing...
UPDATE (3 p.m. Eastern time): Bad news from Malasi, where Pastor Vilcuis of the Climbing For Christ church reports damage to the roof of the new church, his house, the missionary house, the house of teacher Derisma, and the homes of many of those who have assisted the work God has shared with us the...
The Soliette river, which flows from the Chaine de la Selle mountains in Haiti, churning after Isaac. This river produced a great flood in 2004, killing thousands on both sides of the border. Often, before the hurricane season, it runs dry.
Tropical Storm Isaac blew across Haiti in the ov...
Tropical Storm Isaac gained strength on Friday while spinning south of Haiti. The National Weather Service issued this alert Friday evening: “ISAAC TEMPORARILY SLOWS DOWN...BUT STILL EXPECTED TO MAKE LANDFALL IN HAITI TONIGHT.”
Isaac's location, south of Haiti, at 8 p.m. Friday.
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