St. Germain Update (Sept. 12th)

Please be in prayer  for DouDou.  On Wednesday he became ill and was hospitalized.  Madame DouDou is with him.  Those of you who know DouDou, whose name is really Jean-Milou Pierre, know how special he is to us at ESMI.  He's a good brother in the Lord and a wonderful servant of the Lord.  Please, please keep him in your prayers. 

I, Sharon, am here with Dony in Haiti.  I flew in yesterday.  We began our journey to Gonaives immediately. I met 25 of the 145 ESMI works with in training.  One was pastor, whose only training has been with ESMI teachers, has a 500 member congregation.  He and the others were so happy to receive the food, funds, and clothes carried into Gonaives.  Several of the pastors had to walk through miles of knee-high water to meet us.  Some were bare-footed.  Time was spent in prayer before the distribution.  This morning, several of them will meet the food truck in one city, load it on, and take it back to Gonaives, distribute it among themselves and then head into their communities.  With the need being so great the other days, they weren't able to get much of the supplies.

Today's Plan-"Si Bondye Vle"

The Haitian Christians, whenever talking about plans for the future, will always, yes always use this expression at the beginning or end of their thought, "si Bondye vle."  This literally means, "if God wants," or "if God will permit." 

So, "si Bondye vle"

1.  Be abe to provide quickly in mattress for 300 more orphans in Gonaives

2. Get a few food supplies for the medical team arriving this morning. The Hoberson "Hotel" in the city of Gonaives has graciously opened rooms for this team only. 

3.  Team will fly to Gonaives via US Army chopper, we will go via ground and meet them with the car.

4.  Begin seeing children at Gonaives orphanage and then those in the community.  One pastor mentioned yesterday that he has many children in his community that are sick but he has no way of bring them because the water is still too high.

5.  Work in Gonaives until Sunday evening and drive back

Please keep this weekend in your prayer.