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Living Water Ministries of the Palm Beaches - Good News

2010-03-09T18:47:08Z

Beau Menard climbed to the top of the mountain in Petite Paradise where he was able to get reception to make a phone call and report all the things that are happening in the Northwest. If you have been in Petite Paradise, you know that mountain very well. He reported that the new Pastor (we don’t have his name as yet) is doing a great job and the people have really accepted him. The church in Petite Paradise was totally full with people standing outside. Many people who had left the church have come back. Several families asked the Pastor and Beau to come to their house to talk. Some of them accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior. Couples are asking to be married because they recognize that God’s Word teaches that there should be one man for one woman and they should be married. We have been told that in one area there are 60 couples who will be married. Praise God for their desire to be obedient.

Many people have migrated to the Northwest and they need food, clothes and shoes. Beau asked that we send the next container of food up to these villages because the people are so hungry.

Jon, Al, and Denny are flying over on Friday. A Team of people from Global Compassion Ministries out of Missouri is also going over to build tin roofs over the top of several of the huts in Petite Paradise. This will give them protection from the rain because they do not have much shelter from the weather due to the poor condition of their huts. While the Team is there they are hosting a huge banquet at the Living Water Campus for the people of the nearby villages. They will have goat, chicken, rice and beans. Pastor Etienne said hundreds of people will walk a long way to reach this food. He said it would take thousands of dollars to buy all this food and in Haitian money it would take almost $25,000 but in U.S. money the bill for this banquet will only cost about $3,500. I wonder how many “baskets” of leftovers there will be once everyone has had something to eat. God really knows how to put Bible events into reality that we can see and touch and feel.

The container in Lake Worth is filling up and will be taken to the port on Monday (3/15). We have room to take clothes and shoes since Beau has asked that we send all that we can. We are asking everyone to bring clothes to put into the container and maybe check to see if some of the Thrift stores have excess clothes that they cannot handle that they will give to us. With all these couples planning to be married we need Wedding gowns and men’s suits. The people will delay getting married until they have their wedding clothes so let’s fill that container with gowns and suits.

The container is located at Palm Beach Baptist Church, 6201 S. Military Trail, Lake Worth. Send any questions you have by responding to this email so we can give you more details.

Thank you to each one of you for sharing what you have. Your five loaves and two fishes supply the needs of many people.

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Living Water Ministries - Food Distribution & Upcoming Trips to Haiti

2010-03-03T08:45:20Z

Pastor Etienne notified me on Saturday (2/27) that he was called over to Customs at the border of the Dominican Republic because another container of food was ready to be released. This will be distributed mostly to the refugees in the Northwest.

We also have the following mission trips scheduled if any of you or someone you know wants to go over and minister to the Haiti people:

03/12/2010 - 03/19/2010 - Jon Pace, Al fradette and Denny Mitchel will be going to the Northwest for construction at T-Paridi, and T- Rivere.

03/11/2010 - 03/25/2010 - We have a group of people going over to build 10 houses for the villagers in T-Paridi, start construction on a missionary guest house on our property in the NW, minister to the people and children and provide some free medical clinic. This group is very large but someone might be able to work with them.

04/01/2010 - 04/10/2010 - We have a group of 15 people ministering through teaching and evangelism and medical clinic to the children and adults of a few villages. They will also construct portable room dividers for many of our school houses. This group is also fairly full but might be able to use someone to work along with them.

05/14/2010 - 05/22/2010 - Fred Chalker will be taking a group to the Northwest to minister to the children in at least three different villages and to start the construction on Rich and Heather Martin’s Missionary housing. This group is still very small and needs more people to go with them.

If you are interested please respond to this email and we will contact you with more details. If you are interested in arranging a trip at a different time, please respond to this email and we will work with you regarding the details.

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Living Water Ministries of the Palm Beaches - Earthquake Update

2010-02-27T13:18:56Z

Hurray. Pastor Etienne called me Tuesday afternoon and was so excited that I thought he would burst. The Feed My Starving Children container with 270,000 meals arrived this morning and he was passing out food for the past several hours to many Pastors who have been waiting for this assistance. He said he had already given out almost half of the meals in the container. The Pastors are on their way to distribute the meals which will meet the need of their most desperate families. He was bringing Praise to God for Living Water Ministries and all the supporters who have made this blessing possible. He also said that the next container which has another 270,000 Feed My Starving Children meals is due to arrive very soon.

It is truly more exciting to give than to receive. Praise God!!!

Fred

PS – by the end of the day on Wednesday, all the meals were distributed. And this is only the beginning. There are more containers that you are sending to these people that will soon arrive.

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Living Water Ministries of the Palm Beaches - Earthquake Update

2010-02-19T17:32:51Z

Pastor Etienne just returned from the Northwest last night and told us the countryside is overloaded and overwhelmed with the thousands of people that have left PAP. All the villages were begging him to please bring them some food so they can feed these people. The first container of food has arrived at customs in the Dominican Republic. They are extremely back-logged and overloaded with shipments, but we are praying that this container will be released by early next week. We have permission from the donor of the funds to ship this container with 270,000 meals to the villages in the Northwest and distribute the food there.

We have a second container of food from Feed My Starving Children en route which should arrive in about a week. We have permission from FMSC to use this food to feed the people who are hungry in the areas we deem necessary. We are in contact with someone who is raising the money for a third container of food that is similar to the food we received from FMSC. It is expected that it will be packed and shipped within the next month. We have a fourth container at Palm Beach Baptist Church that is being filled with items such tents, tarps, a water filter system with buckets, and other items the people need. That will be ready to ship in about 30 days. We have a fifth container of food that we are hoping to pack in Hollywood, Florida with the assistance of FMSC. There is a group that is trying to raise the funds for this project. We thank you for your donations so we can ship and deliver these containers. As the funds come in to cover the costs of shipping, we will move th
ese containers out to go to Haiti.

Because of the danger in our efforts to distribute the food, we have found the best method is to take it to the churches where the Pastors can distribute it in a more orderly manner. Pastor Etienne knows the churches and the Pastors very well in PAP. He has found this to be a very effective way to put the food into the hands of the people. We are also starting to send food to the Northwest as we are seeing the suffering of our people in our villages now due to the overwhelming migration of people from PAP. One example is the school in Anse Rouge. We purchased land a few months ago to build a new school because the current one is in such bad condition and totally over-crowded. During this past week, their attendance has increased by 103 children coming in from PAP.

The rains have started now in Haiti. This presents another serious situation to the people. They have been living out in the open, because their houses are unsafe, where they have used sticks and sheets to make some type of shelter for themselves. We received a report from an American Missionary yesterday. Part of her email stated:

“As the heavy rain and wind storm woke me up last night, all I could think about were the people in the outskirts of the city who, having lost everything, were now facing soaking rains. I could only imagine the condition of those ‘tents’ this morning. It is hard to see so much destruction and loss of life and limbs. While visiting the field hospital at the airport in PAP the first night, I saw a tiny little baby girl who couldn’t weigh more than 5 pounds, lying on a cot with both legs broken and in casts. I am told that when a mom is told that her injured child is ready for discharge that the mom panics as she doesn’t know where she is going to take her child. They have lost everything and have been living at the hospital since the earthquake.”

The need is so overwhelming and we know it will take much work, time and patience to do what we can do through the grace of God. We will not give up on these people. There is Victory in Jesus. We keep pressing on.

Thank you for helping us help the people of Haiti.

Fred

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Living Water Ministries of the Palm Beaches - Earthquake Update

2010-02-19T14:00:51Z

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Living Water Ministries of the Palm Beaches Email List Message

2010-02-03T18:49:00Z

We have been unable to purchase any additional food and goods for distribution in the Port-au-Prince area. We checked into the possibility of driving our large Mack dump truck over to the Dominican Republic to try to purchase food, but that ended up being too expensive and too risky. We are now concentrating all our relief effort on shipping containers to our people on the ground just outside Port-au-Prince. We have one container with 275,000 Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) meals along with other items from Fort Myers and Missouri on the ship heading to Haiti. It left on Monday (2/1). We also picked up a second container of 275,000 meals early this week from the FMSC warehouse in Minneapolis. When it arrives in West Palm Beach we can add more goods and send it to the shipper in Miami. A third container with 43,200 pounds of rice (864 50 pound bags) has been ordered and will ship via rail to Miami from the Midwest early next week.

We have also ordered an empty container on wheels to be delivered to Palm Beach Baptist Church in Lake Worth, Florida where we will open a Haiti Relief drop-off center. If anyone has goods they wish to ship to Haiti let us know so we can get them in this container. Also, if anyone can help man this drop-off site (6201 S. Military Trail, Lake Worth) please contact us ASAP. We will only accept the following items:

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

We have completed the planning and designing of a Orphanage Village to be built on our 600 acres of land in the Northwest. This will help take care of some of the estimated 100,000 orphaned children in a safe country environment. This concept has been recommended to us by other missionaries who have operated orphanages in Haiti. It allows each child to be raised in an safe Christian home while learning to live and provide for themselves in the nation where they were born. If you would like to know more about this concept for a Haitian orphanage village or help us build and operate it, please contact us.

"Our God is an Awesome God" Fred

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Living Water Ministries - Earthquake Relief Update

2010-01-25T12:18:27Z

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

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Living Water Ministries - Haiti Earthquake Update

2010-01-19T13:53:29Z

Thank you all for your outpouring of concern for the desperate situation in Haiti. Because of your generosity our people on the ground in Port Au Prince are today (Tuesday) buying and distributing $5,000 worth of water, food, clothing, blankets and other needed supplies to those who are in critical need. We have also ordered a container with 275,000 pre-packaged vitamin and mineral enriched meals. This container is being picked up on Wednesday (1/20) in Minneapolis, Minnesota to arrive in Florida at the West Palm Beach Port by Friday. We have made arrangements to ship this container to the Port in St Marc in Haiti. We have a Mack dump truck ready to pick up the food to take it to Port Au Prince. A portion of the food will go to the Northwest to feed the refugees that are fleeing Port Au Prince and going to the countryside. This will cost LWM approximately $7,500. We thank God for using Living Water Ministries to reach out with His unconditional love. Please keep in mind
that this is not a short term problem for the Haitian people; they will be in a desperate situation for many, many months. Your continued support will help as we reach out and meet some of those needs. Remember we are a totally volunteer based ministry and 100% of all donated money goes directly to Haiti.

Fred Chalker

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Living Water Ministries of the Palm Beaches - Haiti Earthquake Concerns

2010-01-15T14:23:38Z

As we watch the news concerning the dire circumstances the people are facing in Port Au Prince we also consider the eventual effect this will have on our people in the Northwest mountains of Haiti where LWM supports several villages. We have learned from experience that when Port Au Prince is cut off from the rest of the country, due to hurricanes or other disasters, it is only a matter of time until the food source in the NW is quickly depleted. Our people in the NW have no other substantial resources for food if they cannot have access to Port Au Prince. Living Water also recognizes that people will begin to migrate away from Port Au Prince to return to their original homes which include the Northwest as they recognize that living conditions in the rural areas will be more desirable than what they are facing now. This means we will see a dramatic increase of people into our villages which can develop into another crisis.

Living Water has arranged for 12 containers of food to be shipped to Haiti that we will use for our people in the Northwest. Those containers are scheduled to ship into a port that is north of Port Au Prince. We have all the details covered regarding the shipping and receiving, transportation to the NW and storage facilities to handle the goods because we do this on a regular basis. We need your financial help to cover the costs. We estimate those costs to exceed $100,000. All donations you make to the Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund will be used for obtaining food, water, clothing, medical supplies and other necessities that are required to meet the needs of our people as a result of this earthquake. 100% of every dollar you donate will go straight to Haiti.

You can make your donations through our website at: www.livingwaterhaiti.org or you can mail your check made out to Living Water Ministries of the Palm Beaches, Inc., 137 Turnberry Drive, Atlantis, FL 33462.

Living Water Ministries is a 501(c) 3 Corporation. We have served the people of Northwest Haiti for 24 years. Our books are open to anyone who wishes to review them. All donations are tax deductible. We do not have any operational overhead here in the US. All the work that is done here in the US is performed by a large number of volunteers who also cover all our administrative costs.

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Living Water Ministries - Haiti Earthquake News (2)

2010-01-13T11:46:00Z

We talked with Pastor Etienne today. He is staying at the Heady Compound, just outside Port Au Prince, which did not receive any damage from the earthquake. We believe the Heady's have a satellite phone making it possible for them to make telephone contact. Pastor's wife was injured but her injuries can be treated.

Many of you are asking if Living Water Ministries is setting up a relief fund. Yes, we are. You can make contributions through our website at: www.livingwaterhaiti.org or by mailing a check to Living Water Ministries, 137 Turnberry Drive, Atlantis, FL 33462. Please make your check payable to Living Water Ministries. All donations are tax deductible. Every dollar we receive goes directly to Haiti. There are no administrative costs deducted from any contributions you make to Living Water. We will coordinate our relief efforts with Pastor Etienne since he will know the best way to obtain and deliver what is needed.

Please continue to pray for these people. There are many who have not been located and for those we are trusting God to grant mercy to them in this desperate situation.

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Living Water Ministries - Haiti Earthquake News

2010-01-12T20:38:45Z

You are all probably hearing the horrible news about the earthquake in Haiti. Praise be to God, we have heard from Pastor Etienne. His house, in the Bon-Repos area, was badly damaged so he is staying at David Heady's compound. Some of his family was hurt but they are alive. He reported that many people around his house died. Continue to pray for Pastor, his family and the many others we know and love in Haiti. The wives and children of some of our Pastor's in the NW live in the Port Au Prince area.

We will keep you updated as we learn more.

You may contact us at www.livingwaterhaiti.org

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