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Independent Christian Alliance Church,
c/o 68 Talbott Avenue
Martinsburg, WV 25405-0035
Update from Pastor Yvel
Greetings in Jesus name!
I am so happy to communicate with you even as my little country passes through some bad moments in its history. But I am still there with God people in the ministry. The life conditions in Haiti are worse than before. I don’t see any kind of changes. Haiti is a nice country with its lands, its seas, its people; but politician leaders love money and power but not their country. More than 600 Haitian families are leaving their houses on gangs armed pressure. They are living on public parks, on yards, or porches. Some of them return to the backcountry. Haitian people are running every day to escape for armed gangs.
Last time I went Leogane to meet my wife and two children we are educating after their mother death. Gangs and policemen were shooting all the night of March 6. All the population was afraid, running everywhere thinking gangs arrived in their area. My wife and I, two little girls of 6 and 7 years old spent the night in a garden of the neighborhood. The shootings were so dangerous we leave the place on Sunday after worshiping God at Bassin Church (Leogane). Now I am in Carrefour for the local work. Pray every day for peace to come back here.
Haitian people are developing all kind of diseases at this time because of the trouble. The churches continue to serve people in all the places except the one in Williamson (Arcahaie). It closed because gangs occupied the area and the pastor moved to USA. Some people of the Mariani church come with us in Palma church (Carrefour) to worship, to receive teachings of Sunday school each week beside Pastor Beaudelaire.
Our financial condition is really bad.
No regular flights to Haiti because armed gangs were shooting at planes, so they closed the airport. The mail companies DHL, Mail ‘n More are closed. We are really isolated where we are. Pray for me. I am ready and I decide to remain in Haiti in spite of it all with God’s poor people until my death. I cannot take care of the orphans because of money. I send them to their parents in the back country. There they are going to school in the church at Leogane. We are taking care of two girls at the mission house. Our feeding program in school keeps growing in some places, but not everywhere. Our widows are receiving some food from Palma church each Sunday.
I share with you some pictures of the feeding program in Rosinette school where the children enjoyed their bowl of rice without meat. Not enough money to have meat and milk or juice.
We don’t know what to do the next days. Going to Port au Prince where our bank is (in Delmas) is totally unsafe. We cannot go there. Gangs are shooting at people while they are running away and killing them for no reason. We need your help and your prayer, please.
In less a month Easter feast will arrive. That moment recalls the greatest love of God for us. Jesus accepted to be arrested, beaten, nailed on the cross and died to save us from the eternal death. It is time for us to approach God; we love Him for the sacrifice of His unique Son.
I want to meet you where you are some day. I don’t know what can be done because your government put some restriction about Haitians deciding to come in your country. We don’t see the issue so the Mighty God has the keys.
I admire and love you in the love of Jesus for supporting our ministry among poor people in Haiti.
HAPPY EASTER TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.
Sincerely yours,
JEAN YVEL CALIXTE .
Please feel free to share this letter with others and have them pray for and donate to the work of the gospel in Haiti.
Note from Pastor Terry Major:
As you read this month’s update, I want you to know that I try to leave as much of the grammar and structure Pastor Yvel uses as possible, but I do edit the letter for clarity as needed.
With the mail situation as it is, please send all gifts to me or to DM Stearns. We deposit them directly to the Mission through Bank of America.
I send deposits once a month and then email the Mission all the information regarding specific designations and amounts.
Gifts that need a tax receipt need to be sent to: DM Stearns Missionary Fund, PO Box 1578, North Wales, PA 19454.
(Send Canadian gifts to: Pastor Brubacher, 7180 Hwy 64 E, Monetville, ON, P0M 2K0, Canada)
U.S. Representative:
Rev. Terry Major
68 Talbott Avenue, Martinsburg, WV 25405;
email: oridwanyks@gmail.com;
phone: 304.702.6670
