Ministries In Action will be working with churches in four villages next week to respond to the food crisis that has created great harship throughout that nation over the last several weeks. Roland Joynes, a faithful MIA volunteer who has led numerous short term mission trips to Haiti, will be flying to Haiti next week and meeting up with Jean Eneck Desir, an MIA missionary in Haiti. They will be acquiring and distributing basic food items (rice, beans, oil) to churches in the villages of Flamands, Guichard, Dariol and Cotin. Those churches will then distribute the food to families in their communities.
Ministries In Action has received numerous donations for Haiti relief over the last few weeks and months, including a very generous donation of $2,500 from the Anthony Abraham Foundation. A fifth grade class at Greynolds Park Elementary School in North Miami Beach held a food drive and collected over five hundred pounds of dry food for this effort. Those items left the Miami office for Haiti today. Everything MIA has currently received when added together can be stretched to feed approximately 25% of the people in the four villages for one week.
The food crisis in Haiti a very serious and large-scale problem. This small relief action would not seem to go far in addressing the entire need in Haiti, but we serve a God that mulitplies loaves and fishes. This relief action will meet a real physical need and will allow MIA to help churches minister to their communities by sharing the love of Jesus with them.
We would like to raise additional funds over the next few days to maximize this opportunity. Would you prayerfully consider contributing to this very worthwhile effort?
