Date: January 25th 2010

Friends, thank you for the outpouring of support for LWM over the past weeks. You have enabled us to reach out to many desperate people in the city of Port au Prince. Pastor Etienne has found a food depot that was seriously damaged by the earthquake and is selling all its food before it is looted or destroyed. He is mixing a #10 can of beans, a #10 can of corn with 1 ½ #10 cans of rice in plastic bags and distributing them with a water bottle full of cooking oil and some bottled water to those that are living in the open streets. Saturday he had to take two policemen with him and they were still overwhelmed by the crowd. From this point forward we will change our method of distribution. We will bring the food and items to many of the churches we know and ask the church leadership to distribute the food to their congregation. This is a safe and effective way to reach out to meet the hunger problem.

We have a full container of vitamin and mineral enriched food (275,000 prepackaged servings) from Feed My Starving Children in Minnesota that is in Miami where it will be shipped through the Dominican Republic this week. We will also have a container of dried pinto beans and a second container of food from FMSC on it's way soon.

As you know Living Water Ministries uses 100% of the money you donate to help the people in Haiti. Some of your money is used to cover the costs of shipping the containers but without your donations, we would not have the financial resources to send this food to the people. You are critical to the task of meeting the needs of these desperate people.

We are gathering needed supplies at a warehouse in West Palm Beach to ship over ASAP. A list of the items we will accept appears below. You may reply to this email for details about how to deliver the items to us. Those items are:

Tents, tarps, ropes, working generators, working motorcycles or scooters, gas cans, shovels, buckets, Crocs, jackknives, garbage can liners, flashlights, batteries, matches, pots & pans, large spoons, silverware, towels, blankets, sheets, bottled water, canned food with pull tabs, rice, beans, peanut butter, jelly, powdered baby formula, cloth diapers, plastic pants, baby wipes, gauze, Neosporin/Bacitracin, Peroxide, Alcohol (for medical uses), Kotex, bar soap, tooth brushes, tooth paste, band aids.


I talked with Pastor Etienne this morning and he gave us the following updates:

· Most of the original medical emergencies have been met, although with much difficulty, such as the lack of anesthesia, lack of equipment and lack of medical supplies
· Most of the people who are still alive have been rescued
· 100,000's of people are leaving PAP and going to the countryside
· 100,000's of people are living on the open streets
· There are still 10,000's of dead under the rubble.
· The medical people say the next crisis will be disease and malnutrition
· Pray that it does not rain in PAP because that will spread the disease through the city that is under the rubble.
· It will be many, many months before this crisis subsides
· The roads are open to the Northwest but looters are stopping many trucks and stealing the contents
· The airport and seaport should open in the near future
· It was Renel's daughter who was hit in the face with falling cement not Pastor’s wife, Rosnel.
· Pastor Vernet's family is on the street.
· Klebert is well but we do not know about his family and have not contacted him since the day of the earthquake

Please keep praying for Haiti and reaching out as God leads you. Fred