Additional Funds Needed to Set Up Three More Medical Clinics in Haiti to Help Fight COVID-194/26/2022
513 Adults and 205 Children Served So Far at Three Locations  Thanks to your generous support, our mission partner, Mission:Haiti, was able to schedule the first three COVID-19 clinics a few weeks ago. Because of the clinics’ huge success, the medical staff saw twice as many people as they expected and need an additional $2,500 to purchase more supplies for the remaining three clinics. They are anticipating serving an average of 300 patients at each location. Please prayerfully consider a generous donation to support these life-saving clinics as Haiti continues to battle COVID-19. Thank you for making a difference in the lives of our Haitian brothers and sisters!
Through your generous donations, LCC has been supporting teacher salaries in the Jeremie District. We received the following update from our mission partner, Sue Gross, with the Haitian Lutheran Mission Project (HLMP).  Your donations have made a huge difference in the lives of so many families in Fond Rouge and other villages in the Jeremie District. Hundreds of children whose parents cannot afford to send them to public school are attending our seven schools because you have kept them open. Many lives have been improved, and some saved because you cared enough to keep the HLMP working in Haiti for the past 15-plus years.
All of our schools are in the farthest southwest portion of the island. There is only one road from Port au Prince that can take you there. It is a rather isolated area and difficult for other relief organizations to get to. Most Haitians have never even been to Jeremie. Even today, most families have no electricity or indoor plumbing. Our school meals are still cooked over wood fires behind the school, and water is brought to them in buckets from the river or a community well in the village. Many children attend school barefooted and hungry with no school supplies, but they are eager to learn, so the HLMP feels keeping the schools open is the very least we can do. "For those who have been given much, much will be expected."(Luke 12:48). Even though the last two years have been difficult for many here in the United States, it cannot compare with life in Haiti. Please open your hearts to those who are in need. Blessings, Sue Gross Haitian Lutheran Mission Project  We received an update from Lophane Laurent, who was able to schedule the first three COVID Clinics in Haiti thanks to your generous support. He is planning to hold the next three clinics next month. Thank you for making a difference in the lives of our Haitian brothers and sisters! I want to thank God for safety during our first three days of clinics. I can tell everyone that it was three days of blessings. We did the clinics in three locations and I shared the gospel with the public who come to the clinic. In each place, I took a few minutes to talk to them about our salvation and why Jesus died for us, and what the blood of Jesus represents for us. I shared a few small catechisms with them to teach them first.  A little boy came to me at the clinic and asked me for a small catechism because he wants to share the gospel with his friends in his neighborhood, especially those whose parents are not Christian, and I asked him how old he is and he said to me 12 years old. His parents can’t afford to send him to school since they are not working for two years. I took his information and told him I will contact them next week to visit them.
So it was a blessing for the three locations and a success also. During the three days, we served 205 children from 3 months to 17 years old and 513 adults. We started at 8:30 am to 4:00 pm. I will plan for next month for the three other locations. Please keep my Haitian team in your prayers because they did a good job and I am very proud of them. Thanks to all of our sponsors and donors who never stop supporting us. We love you so much and we know how you love us also. May God bless your families and your ministries. Blessings, Lophane Because of your generous donations, we were able to send funds to our mission partners Mission:Haiti and Ministry in Mission. Mission: Haiti is setting up six one-day medical clinics in six different locations to fight COVID-19 that is still rampant in Haiti. The clinics are being planned for this week and next. Ministry in Mission will provide thirty new mattresses for Children at the Center of Refuge Orphanage. The mattresses have been ordered. Thanks to your support, both needs have been met!
$8,500 Needed to Fund Lifesaving Project  LCC has received a request from our Mission Partner, Mission:Haiti for a lifesaving project.
COVID-19 is still rampant in Haiti. Mission:Haiti is planning six one-day medical clinics in six different locations. The areas are: Arcahaie, Deluge, Delmas, Petion-Ville, Jeremie, and Le Cayes. The total cost for all six locations is estimated at $8,500, or about $1,417 per day. That pays for medicine plus two Haitian doctors, two nurses, two assistants, gas, water, food, and all necessary supplies. Lophane Laurent will be at each clinic and will be distributing 1,300 + masks. Please prayerfully consider a generous donation to support these life-saving clinics as Haiti continues to battle COVID-19.  LCC received the following update from Jackie Rychel, our Mission Partner with Ministry in Mission: Thanks to Lutheran Church Charities for supporting the food for a youth gathering to provide many young people an alternative to the Voodoo custom of Carnival. Food, fun, and fellowship were had by many by the grace of God and the generous donations through LCC. Jackie Rychel
Because of your generous support LCC continues to work with our Ministry Partners in Haiti to bring much-needed relief. We received the following email from Lophane Laurent after a recent food distribution.  Blessings to everyone, Today was our second day of food distribution. I want to thank all of you for your support. We helped 80 people with a kit of food costing $35 each. In each package, there is rice, spaghetti, oil, and milk. I want you to know this food will be for a week or more, it depends on how many people are in each family. I want to thank all of our sponsors and donors for your support. We continue to buy and distribute food because the need is so great. Again, thanks a lot, and may God bless you all, Lophane
Please pray for LCC Haiti Mission partners to show the Mercy, Compassion, Presence and Proclamation of Jesus Christ to those suffering and in need.
If you are so moved, please donate generously to help LCC provide food for the most vulnerable Haitians. Your donations have also provided assistance to teachers at the Lutheran Schools in Jeremie District. Because of your support, many of the teachers have had their homes repaired, and food has been provided for the school children. Our pastors and teachers continue to care for their neighbors and students and are grateful for your continued support!
 Donations needed to provide food for children and their families Your generous donations have allowed LCC to provide scholarships for children living in the tent city in Port-au-Prince, so that they can attend a Lutheran school. One of the things that the school provides is a hot meal for the children every day. 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. The current humanitarian crisis in Haiti has made providing food for the children and their families all the more urgent. We received the following request from Lophane Laurent, Field Director, Haiti:  Good morning everyone, I want to thank you for continuing to support our poor children to go to school again this year. You know our difficulties, trouble in my lovely country. The kids that we sponsor to go to school are living close to the schools, and those schools are still open, and the kids are safe going to school. This year if you think we should give the kids the same food we gave them in their kits last year, I think we should plan for $60 a child because everything has gone up. A 50-pound bag of rice that I used to buy in the past for $15 now costs almost $30. So the food now is very expensive. I can tell you that without LCC's support, all of our children would stay home without going to school. This is the reason why we are always praying for all of the members of LCC and for our donors and sponsors. If it is possible for you, can you please add more children to receive the food package we share with our kids in December? I know how LCC supports my people to get food in this terrible moment. Thank you so much, and may God bless all of you. Have a great day with God. Blessings, Lophane
Please consider a donation to provide a Christmas present of food for the Haitian school children. $60 will provide a two-week supply of food for a child and their family.
LCC is asking for your help to provide a Christmas food kit for 100 children.  LCC received the following update from Haitian Lutheran Mission Project about your donations to support Haitian Lutheran teachers:
I want to let our donors know that our teachers did receive their salaries which we sent in advance (paying them until the end of this year). I would like to assure everyone that we continue to serve the people of Jeremie even through this difficult time. The unrest and gang activity that you hear about is not happening in Jeremie, but what happens in Port au Prince does impact the entire country. Thank you for your continued support, and I hope to send good news in the next email. Blessings, Susan Gross Haitian Lutheran Mission Project |
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