Update From Grenada - Homes for the Homeless

Dhan Lalsee, MIA Executive Director and Project Manager for the Homes for the Homeless program, has been in Grenada the last few weeks cooridnating the building projects and working with short term teams.  He reports that some exciting progress has been made in recent days. 

Update from Onesimo and Marilda de Arruda in Brazil

Dear prayer partners and friends,

It has been quite a while since we last wrote — please forgive us!! The month of May went by so quickly and we are so involved with the work that we are only now catching up with you.

Praise the Lord the ministry is going well. Believe it or not, we are finally getting some cold weather, not freezing, although it did freeze in southern Brazil. It feels good to have a change. The only down side to this is when I (Marilda) have to wake up early to teach and get the 5:00 a.m. bus, and the only heat on the bus is body heat!!!

Construction of Clinic in the Dominican Republic Nears Completion

In 2002, Ministries In Action was informed by one of its missionaries of a Dominican medical doctor, Silvia Martinez, who was struggling with a ministry through which she was offering free medical services to inner-city and rural communities in the Dominican Republic. Although she was receiving some financial assistance from the Dutch Reformed Church for her work in the rural communities, there was none available to build a clinic to meet the great need for medical care in the inner-city. Later that year, MIA assessed the need after meetings with Dr Martinez and her Board of Directors, and took the decision to recruit her into the organization as a medical missionary, and to support and extend her ministry by building a medical complex through Project Ebenezer (MIA’s social outreach ministry).

Update from the Mission Field - Gordon Woolard

June 1, 2007

Dear Sisters and Brothers Who Care,

We’re celebrating the first day of hurricane season with a desperately needed downpour. Everyone is hoping that the dire predictions will not materialize but the Lord of sea and land will rule in His mysterious wisdom.

I’ve returned from a double-conference trip to Jamaica. The first four days were spent with my Langham Preaching International colleagues doing a seminar for 75 participants. The team is convinced that only preaching from Scripture has the relevance and strength to stand up boldly in the spiritual climate of this religion-saturated island.

Homes for the Homeless - Grenada

This week Ministries In Action’s Homes for the Homeless committee is working diligently to have the foundations of homes nine and ten (of twenty) poured and ready for summer work teams.  To date there are three work teams scheduled to visit Grenada.  The first team, a group of men from the Ministries In Action Thursday Morning Bible Study in Miami, FL heads to Grenada on June 12th.  The Homes for the Homeless committee is having a difficult time completing the foundation work, because local suppliers and labors are beginning to associate the Homes for the Homes projects with American dollars, making difficult for the committee to secure fair pricing.  It is important that the foundations are complete prior to the arrival of the work teams.