Marlene gave me a recent report on their workers in Haiti. Gary, one of their 8 boys they raised was missing. He has been found and also their missions director, his family and 2 more of their workers are all alright. God answered prayer! Their other boy, Rico is back from the Dominican Republic working long hours to salvage all of the office equipment from the collapsed mission compound. Bill & Marlene are sending large cargo every two weeks through Agape. They are sending hundreds of love bags with personal hygiene needs which arrive in Rico’s and the missionaries hands in less than a week to be distributed to the Haitians. The prison is completely destroyed leaving the prisoners loose on the streets. Because of this, it is very dangerous for the women living in tent cities. Please check out the above website for more details on the situation in Haiti for Faith In Action.
I received an interesting article written by Harry Gruits from Rhema International stating he met a man on the plane while going to Haiti before the earthquake hit to check on the hospital his mother, Patricia Beall Gruits founded. The man worked for United Nations and told him the history of the Creole language. Creole is a mixture of French and African. It was used by the slaves so the French slave owners, who brought them to the island of Haiti, wouldn’t understand what they were saying. Haiti was the slave capital of the world...all slaves first left Africa to come to Haiti. Families were divided and the best and strongest slaves were sent to America. When the slave trade ended and the French left Haiti, they left these poor people behind with no resources, nothing...they just left them there. Could you imagine being put on an island, you might as well say a deserted island, with no resources? This is how Haiti, the poorest country in the world, began.