Your Much Needed Donations Help Provide Food to the Most Vulnerable in Haiti Humanitarian Crisis11/5/2019
The situation in Haiti is still dire and at this time we can only send money to help our brothers and sisters.
We have distributed two weeks of food to over 1200 families/individuals from seven different churches/ communities and one orphanage. The people who have received the food were determined by local pastors or elders as the most nutritionally vulnerable whether they were church members or not. One elderly gentleman in a rural village told our Field Director Lophane Laurent and Security Director Noel Duffault that he had not eaten in three days and he was praying for an angel to bring him food because he was too weak to get up to find someone who might share a little food with him. He told them that they were surely the angels he had prayed for. Both of these men have lived in Haiti all their lives and have seen and experienced hunger, but they both were greatly moved by this elderly man. Lophane and Noel are doing their best to find those who are the most in need and get food to them safely. We would like to express our deepest thanks to all those who are supporting the people of Haiti through prayers and resources. Please ask people to not weary of doing good, these gifts of love and mercy do make an eternal difference." Mission:Haiti Facebook post from November 4 reads: "This is Pastor Mario, aka 'The Happy Pastor' because he is always smiling. He has a congregation and orphanage in a very difficult part of Port-au-Prince. The children are some of the 38 he has in his orphanage. They were very grateful to receive food from Mission: Haiti. We were very blessed to be able to help.This food will feed the orphanage for several weeks as well as the elderly and the most needy in Pastor Mario’s area. We want to thank Tim Hetzner of Lutheran Church Charities and all the donors that are making it possible for us to help so many people!"
Please prayerfully consider making a monetary donation to enable Lutheran Church Charities continue to send emergency funds to Haiti to help provide food for Haitian adults and children.
Thirty dollars will buy enough rice, oil, maggi, canned fish, spaghetti, and soup to feed one person two meals a day for three weeks. LCC Haiti mission partners are helping the most nutritionally vulnerable but need financial support to do so. Join LCC as we pray for the protection of the Haitian people and our mission partners, and for peace in Haiti.  The situation in Haiti is desperate and at this time we can only send money to help our brothers and sisters. Lutheran Church Charities (LCC) continues to work through our Haiti Mission Partners, Ministry in Mission and Mission:Haiti to send emergency funds to Haiti during a current critical humanitarian crisis due to the political unrest. Thanks to your generous donations, LCC was able to send $11,000 in financial support for food to our mission partners. "At this point our donations are going to the Center of Refuge orphanage and Jacmel Lutheran Home in the Jacmel Lutheran Village for food to sustain the orphans and elderly. Widline, the young pregnant Director of the Jacmel Lutheran Home risks her life to travel from her home to the Jacmel Lutheran Home to tend to the elderly," shares Jackie Rychel, President of Ministry in Mission.
This published information is exactly what Ministry in Mission is hearing from their beloved and trusted partners in Haiti.
Please prayerfully consider making a monetary donation to enable Lutheran Church Charities to send emergency funds to Haiti to help provide food for Haitian adults and children. Thirty dollars will buy enough rice, oil, maggi, canned fish, spaghetti, and soup to feed one person two meals a day for three weeks. LCC Haiti mission partners are helping the most nutritionally vulnerable but need financial support to do so. Join LCC as we pray for the protection of the Haitian people and our mission partners, and for peace in Haiti.  Lutheran Church Charities (LCC) continues to work through our Haiti Mission Partners, Ministry In Mission and Mission:Haiti to send emergency funds to Haiti during this critical humanitarian crisis due to the current political unrest. So far, LCC was able to send $6000 in financial support for food to our mission partners. The situation in Haiti is desperate and at this time we can only send money to help our brothers and sisters. A recent article published in the New York Times paints an alarming picture of the humanitarian crisis in Haiti. Read the article here. In the words of Helen M. Roenfeldt, Mission Director at Mission:Haiti “the situation in Haiti is becoming a true humanitarian crisis. Many, many people are unable to work, earn money or purchase food… families who rely on school lunches to feed their children, can't send their kids to school and can't afford food because they can't go to work because roads are blocked… the elderly have not eaten for days at a time.”
Please prayerfully consider making a monetary donation to enable Lutheran Church Charities send emergency funds to Haiti to help provide food for Haitian adults and children. Join LCC as we pray for the protection of the Haitian people and our mission partners, and for peace in Haiti. 
 According to an article in Washington Post published on October 14, 2019, Haiti is “perennially the poorest in the Western Hemisphere; more than half the population lives on less than $2.20 a month.”
“We are in misery and we are starving,” said one of the protesters. The situation in Haiti is desperate. Eighty percent of government offices and banks are closed; schools have not been able to open yet this fall; electricity is unreliable because there is no fuel to run the national power grids; food, clean water, and fuel is expensive and scarce. According to the United Nations World Food Program, “about 3.6 million people — or more than a third of the country’s population — have been driven deeper into poverty and hunger and are struggling to access a reliable supply of food.” The natural disasters (earthquake, hurricanes, and floods) over several years in Haiti created a devastating food crisis. Lutheran Church Charities, working through Ministry In Mission, will send emergency funds to Haiti. Please prayerfully consider making a monetary donation to help provide food for Haitian adults and children.  Giving Hope and a Future in an Otherwise Hopeless Situation
In 2012, LCC President/CEO Tim Hetzner spent a night in a tent city in Port-au-Prince, Haiti with a family of 7 children. Not one of the children had been in school because of their family's living situation and finances. After an LCC appeal, generous donors stepped forward to sponsor these and other children living in the tent city so that they could attend Christian schools. Seven years later, the tent city is still there and LCC is still raising support for the children so that they can continue their education. Please consider sponsoring a child's education for the upcoming school year. Christ working through you to "defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy" (Psalm 72:4). Public and private education in Haiti costs money - there is NO free education. Our Lutheran schools also charge but are less expensive than the public schools. For $40 a month, a child can go to school, receive a daily meal and a uniform. $400 for a school year! Please consider sponsoring a child that they may have hope for their future and learn the wonders of the Lord! "Tell to the children the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done." (Psalm 78:4)
Funds are needed to provide emergency food and clean water, livestock to replace lost animals, and for church and home repairs. The blue and white building pictured is the church. Other buildings pictured are homes of church members. Mission Haiti has sent a team to the area to provide critical assistance to Haitians with the greatest need.
Please pray for the Mission Haiti team and the Haitian residents as they once again recover from a disaster. If you are so moved, please donate generously to help LCC support the recovery efforts in Haiti. 10 Children Still Need Sponsors  School starts Monday September 3rd. We still need funding for 10 children. Please consider a gift to provide a Christian education for a child in Haiti
In 2012, LCC President/CEO Tim Hetzner spent a night in a tent city in Port-au-Prince, Haiti with a family of 7 children. Not one of the children had been in school because of their family's living situation and finances. After an LCC appeal, generous donors stepped forward to sponsor these and other children living in the tent city so that they could attend Christian schools. Six years later, the tent city is still there and LCC is still raising support for the children so that they can continue their education. Please consider sponsoring a child's education for the upcoming school year. Christ working through you to "defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy" (Psalm 72:4). Public and private education in Haiti costs money - there is NO free education. Our Lutheran schools also charge but are less expensive than the public schools. For $40 a month, a child can go to school, receive a daily meal and a uniform. $400 for a school year! Please consider sponsoring a child that they may have hope for their future and learn the wonders of the Lord! "Tell to the children the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done." (Psalm 78:4)
Helen Roenfeldt, Director of Haiti Mission in the Florida/Georgia District has asked LCC to help our mission churches get food for the children and adults. LCC is providing $2,000 immediately for food but more assistance is needed. We have started distributing food through our partners in Haiti, to those we can get to, including the elderly, who need us to help with food assistance to get back on their feet. Please keep the people in Haiti in your prayers and any assistance you can provide is greatly needed and appreciated. Thank you for Making a Difference in Haiti.  Tim Hetzner
President/CEO  Giving Hope and a Future in an Otherwise Hopeless Situation
In 2012, LCC President/CEO Tim Hetzner spent a night in a tent city in Port-au-Prince, Haiti with a family of 7 children. Not one of the children had been in school because of their family's living situation and finances. After an LCC appeal, generous donors stepped forward to sponsor these and other children living in the tent city so that they could attend Christian schools. Six years later, the tent city is still there and LCC is still raising support for the children so that they can continue their education. Please consider sponsoring a child's education for the upcoming school year. Christ working through you to "defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy" (Psalm 72:4). Public and private education in Haiti costs money - there is NO free education. Our Lutheran schools also charge but are less expensive than the public schools. For $40 a month, a child can go to school, receive a daily meal and a uniform. $400 for a school year! Please consider sponsoring a child that they may have hope for their future and learn the wonders of the Lord! "Tell to the children the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done." (Psalm 78:4)  $1,000 will provide food and a Christmas present for each of the 40 children sponsored by Lutheran Church Charities.
Your generous gifts sponsor Haitian children for scholarships so that they receive a hot meal every day at school. For many of these children that is their one good meal of the day. Last year food kits containing rice, beans, oil, spaghetti, and milk were distributed to the children and their families so that they could continue to eat daily during the Christmas break. Please consider a donation for a Christmas gift of food for these children and their families. |
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