Your Much Needed Donations Help Provide Food to the Most Vulnerable in Haiti Humanitarian Crisis

The situation in Haiti is still dire 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 $21,000 in financial support for food to our mission partners.

Jackie Rychel, President of Ministry in Mission reports: "Two million children are still out of school out of fear they will be attacked if they attend. Babies are dying at the hospital because hospitals can't find fuel to run their generators, or purchase supplies. Malnutrition is skyrocketing as families can't get to town to purchase food and can't afford the 22% inflation costs."
 
Helen M. Roenfeldt, Mission Director at Mission:Haiti reports: "We have now provided two weeks of food for 300+ elderly, widows, single mothers, orphans and the most nutritionally vulnerable. Lophane, our Field Director keeps telling me how grateful everyone is. Lophane is delivering food to those who can’t get out and often they share with neighbors. Something they all seem to say beyond 'thank you for the food' is 'thank you for showing us that we are not alone in our suffering.

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.

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