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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The threat of Tropical Storm Isaac, which could be a Category 1 hurricane when it is forecasted to hit Haiti on Friday, may force the postponement of our monthly seminary scheduled for this weekend. Please pray for those in Isaac's path.
Haitian missionary Miguel Rubén Guante returned from another successful visit to Mare Pitre. “My trip was good,” he reported. “I contacted some of the first group (five families that accepted Christ on the initial evangelizing visit two weeks previous) and I met others.&rdqu...
On Thursday, missionary Miguel Rubén Guante traveled 206-kilometers south of Jimani to another Dominican border town, Pedernales, to make his way back into Haiti. He has been blocked from crossing the border in Jimani, where he lives, by a Dominican official on a power trip. “I thanks G...
Pastor “Blanco” speaking today at church at Jimani.
There was joy at the Monte Pou Kris (Climbing For Christ) church in the Dominican border town of Jimani today as Pastor Emilio (“Blanco”) Setoute attended worship for the first time in two months. Blanco is being trea...
Work on the front of the church at Gentilhomme.
(Photos by Milus Jesilus)
The church at Gentilhomme has been busy rebuilding the front of the 6½-year-old building we constructed as part of renovations we are doing on the original Monte Pou Kris church. In addition to improvements ...