Dear Friends and Supporters,
Thank you very much for your support to the survivors of the earthquake of January 12 in Haiti. Thanks to your generosity, we were able to respond effectively and come to help to those who were the most affected by that terrible disaster. Fort-Liberte was intact, as far as buildings, facilities and injuries were concerned. We felt bumps and shocks, we heard clearly the resonant noise of the earth trembling, but, praise the Lord, the North in general was spared that day. We did have minimal damages, such as cracks in many houses, a few old fencing walls that fell down without injuring anybody. We thank God.
However, Fort-Liberte has been affected by losing lots of people and their homes; mainly students attending school in Port-au-Prince and parents or relatives who were taking care of them there. Right after the earthquake our city was overflowing with people (students, parents, friends, strangers) who had fled the devastation in Port-au-Prince looking for a safer place. Some students came to Fort-Liberte to search for opportunity to complete their scholar year. Our church school, Eben-Ezer Baptist School, was obliged to open its’ doors and take in over 60 of the affected children. Thanks to generous donors like you, we were also able to feed a large number of the victims who have lost everything, to provide a little money to help them meet a few of their vital needs. We also give partial or full scholarship to the most needy. The church is now looking for ways to rent or provide room for those who came in Fort-Liberte without having here parents or relatives. We understand that we must select a small group of victims who keep coming to ask for food and other help.
We are a poor church. Dear supporters and Friends of Fort-Liberte- you made it possible for us to care for people in dire need of help in this time of disaster. You provide money to make of Jerusalem Church a servant church and living testimony of God’s love to our people. The effort needs to be sustained. Please continue to have us in your thoughts and prayers for our grieving families. People are still sharing with the church stories of how they have been miraculously saved and spared by the Lord. Now is not the time to neglect or ignore them. It is rather time to remember daily the victims or refugees. The needs of some of them are not over.
We praise the Lord for each one of you who are responding to help us face these crucial needs. Please continue to show your love in action, keep on praying for Haiti, and having our small and poor country in your daily thoughts. The people of Fort-Liberte are not ready to forget what you mean to them.
I join the members of the Church Board and your friends here in thanking you gratefully, and praying that God will continue to care for you and reward you with abundant blessings in due time.
Gratefully yours, in His Service,
Andre Jean, pastor
