World Renewal International
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Anderson Revival Show
FOR HAITI UPDATE GO TO WORLD RENEWAL HAITI BLOG LINK AT THE LEFT OF THIS SCREEN
On Thursday Oct. 2 we will be featuring a special presentation of the Welcome Home Broadcast. It will highlight the revival that swept the Asbury College Campus in February of 1970 and spread to Anderson, Indiana starting at the South Meridian Church of God, then moving on to the Anderson Civic Center. The Anderson revival lasted 50 days and an estimated 5000-7000 people make decisions for Christ. On the program we will have Pastor Hal Phillips who was on the Asbury team, along with myself, to the Anderson University and South Meridian Church to spread the news of the revival. Ray Renner re-committed his life to Christ during that time as did Lawrence Chewning. They later formed the band the Fishermen and had the privilege of introducing Ray Bolz to Christ in one of their concerts. Ray and Lawrence will join us on this broadcast.
Here is a list of the stations in Indiana and Illinois on the
JESUS FIRST NETWORK
Every Thurs. 5-7 PM
Sat. 9-11 AM
The Jesus First Network
990 AM WENS Muncie
88.1 FM Morristown
90.1 WENS Wadesville 93.9 New Castle
93.9 Mt. Carmel, IL
98.3 Milroy
101.5 Muncie
102.3 Norristown
102.9 Mt. Comfort
103.5 Greensburg
103.7 Rushville
104.3 Greensburg
104.5 Connorsville
104.9 Rushville
105.3 Anderson
106.9 Fort Branch
107.1 Connorsville
107.3 Arcadia
Here is a list of the stations in Indiana and Illinois on the
JESUS FIRST NETWORK
Every Thurs. 5-7 PM
Sat. 9-11 AM
The Jesus First Network
990 AM WENS Muncie
88.1 FM Morristown
90.1 WENS Wadesville 93.9 New Castle
93.9 Mt. Carmel, IL
98.3 Milroy
101.5 Muncie
102.3 Norristown
102.9 Mt. Comfort
103.5 Greensburg
103.7 Rushville
104.3 Greensburg
104.5 Connorsville
104.9 Rushville
105.3 Anderson
106.9 Fort Branch
107.1 Connorsville
107.3 Arcadia
Monday, September 8, 2008
More Rain But Contact Made on Sunday PTL
Max Wright Reports "I talked to Luc Joseph at 2:30pm today. He said hurrican Ike was causing more flooding, even at his new house construction site. At the time his family and the Orphans were on the roof of the house, the wind was blowing hard causing the phone connection to be difficult. However he did say he was able to buy some food for the children."
[Pastors of our Haiti Churches this past March]
For more information and pictures on World Renewal-Haiti please double click on the World Renewal-Haiti Blog link on the left of this screen.
We have been given $9276 for the LOVED ONES IN HAITI RELIEF FUND 100% will be given to the emergency relief of Haiti.
Thanks for stopping by.
Friday, September 5, 2008
Mission News Network on Haiti
I am including a news article from Mission News Network today, it also features and Mission Aviation Fellowship and the picture from them. We are grateful for their work.
Haiti (MNN) ― The death toll is climbing as Haiti tropical storm Hanna pours more rain on that Caribbean nation. The disaster is affecting Haitians as well as those trying to help them.
Mission Aviation Fellowship serves Haiti with vital aviation, radio communications and distance education services to enable and maximize the work of Christian missions, Haitian church leaders, and non-government organizations (NGOs) ministering in Haiti.
MAF's Will White speaking from Haiti says, "We've already been drenched with Hurricane Gustav, and the land's already very wet. When Hanna hit, it just dumped more water, and in many areas it caused a lot of flooding."
According to White, MAF was able to conduct survey flights in the low-lying areas. He says Gonaives was especially hard hit. "There are about 110,000 people living there, and that town is completely flooded--from knee deep to 10 feet of water. A lot of people have moved to the top of their houses. The town is completely cut off by water."
White says this year's flooding is worse than the flooding Gonaives experienced in 2004.
The MAF program has also been affected by this week's flooding. "[Our] Gonaives airstrip is under about eight feet of water. Our other airstrips around the country report that they are fine -- just a bit muddy, but they haven't been flooded."
The torrential rains have also affected the day-to-day MAF operations. "We've basically been shut down from our normal operations for a couple of days now, " says White. "We were able to get a special permit to do the survey flights. [Thursday was] the first day authorities are actually letting us file flight plans to get to our other air strips."
White says missionaries have been stuck. He says, "Our main problem is in the Gonaives area, where even the missionaries who minister there are stuck -- they're on top of their houses also."
The difficulties aren't over. "More problems are expected in 7-10 days when we start seeing waterborne illnesses. The biggest threat is to infants and the elderly."
White is asking you to pray for the victims as well as for those trying to help. "We're flying a lot of non-Christian relief personnel from organizations like the Red Cross and government officials. We slap a headset on them so we can talk while we're flying them out and witness to them about Christ. We might not get that opportunity in other ways."
Haiti (MNN) ― The death toll is climbing as Haiti tropical storm Hanna pours more rain on that Caribbean nation. The disaster is affecting Haitians as well as those trying to help them.
Mission Aviation Fellowship serves Haiti with vital aviation, radio communications and distance education services to enable and maximize the work of Christian missions, Haitian church leaders, and non-government organizations (NGOs) ministering in Haiti.
MAF's Will White speaking from Haiti says, "We've already been drenched with Hurricane Gustav, and the land's already very wet. When Hanna hit, it just dumped more water, and in many areas it caused a lot of flooding."
According to White, MAF was able to conduct survey flights in the low-lying areas. He says Gonaives was especially hard hit. "There are about 110,000 people living there, and that town is completely flooded--from knee deep to 10 feet of water. A lot of people have moved to the top of their houses. The town is completely cut off by water."
White says this year's flooding is worse than the flooding Gonaives experienced in 2004.
The MAF program has also been affected by this week's flooding. "[Our] Gonaives airstrip is under about eight feet of water. Our other airstrips around the country report that they are fine -- just a bit muddy, but they haven't been flooded."
The torrential rains have also affected the day-to-day MAF operations. "We've basically been shut down from our normal operations for a couple of days now, " says White. "We were able to get a special permit to do the survey flights. [Thursday was] the first day authorities are actually letting us file flight plans to get to our other air strips."
White says missionaries have been stuck. He says, "Our main problem is in the Gonaives area, where even the missionaries who minister there are stuck -- they're on top of their houses also."
The difficulties aren't over. "More problems are expected in 7-10 days when we start seeing waterborne illnesses. The biggest threat is to infants and the elderly."
White is asking you to pray for the victims as well as for those trying to help. "We're flying a lot of non-Christian relief personnel from organizations like the Red Cross and government officials. We slap a headset on them so we can talk while we're flying them out and witness to them about Christ. We might not get that opportunity in other ways."
Thursday, September 4, 2008
PRAISE THE LORD and KEEP PRAYING
We are praising our Lord! Today Max Wright, World Renewal-Haiti Director, spoke with Pastor Luc Joseph. Pastor Luc is the President of World Renewal-Haiti. He was able to get his family and household along with the twenty-five children from our Christ Compassion Orphanage to safety at the new house we have constructed for him and World Renewal-Haiti headquarters. It was a 3 mile distance between the orphanage and the new house in flooded streets.
[ PICTURED-PASTOR LUC & ROSANA]
The house, which is outside the city and on higher ground is not yet completed and is unfurnished. However it is a safe walled complex. We are estimating that there are about 40 people at least. The city is under water. All banks and financial systems are down. There are two more storms on the way.
Luc was able to get them food last night. However, they have no food and water today!
Join us in prayer:
· Praising God for all their safety.
· Food and safe drinking water.
· Wisdom on how we can best respond to help them in getting resources to them.
· Their continued safety with more storms approaching.
PRAY FOR ALL THE PEOPLE OF HAITI!
We do need cash relief funds.
WORLD RENEWAL INTL
PO BOX 399, GREENFIELD, IN 46140.
LOVED ONES IN HAITI is the relief fund.
The quickest method is check by phone. We can receive Master and Visa cards however there is a delay in receiving those funds from the card service.
All funds received will be used without WRI taking any administration fees. 100% will be used for relief for Haiti.
Please call our toll free number is:
800-248-6512 317-467-9899
We do need cash relief funds.
WORLD RENEWAL INTL
PO BOX 399, GREENFIELD, IN 46140.
LOVED ONES IN HAITI is the relief fund.
The quickest method is check by phone. We can receive Master and Visa cards however there is a delay in receiving those funds from the card service.
All funds received will be used without WRI taking any administration fees. 100% will be used for relief for Haiti.
Please call our toll free number is:
800-248-6512 317-467-9899
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Maybe Tonight
Update: Today Max Wright, our WR-Haiti Director made contact with the wife of Pastor Luc's closet friend in Haiti. His friend is a pastor with WYAM. He has a different kind of cell phone than Pastor Luc. Unfortunately, the wife did not speak any English. Her husband was not there but Max feels he communicated that he would call back tonight. I am sure that Pastor Luc's friend will know about Luc, his family and our children. I wish I could report more and will as soon as we hear. Keep praying, as you know two more storms are headed towards Haiti.
Thanks for stopping by.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Rueters report on Haiti
Rueters posted this report today on Gonaives situation.
[Christ Compassion Orphanage Picture is ours not Rueters]
By Joseph Guyler Delva
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Heavy rains triggered by Tropical Storm Hanna triggered severe flooding and killed at least 10 people in the Haitian city of Gonaives, where thousands died four years ago during a similar catastrophe, officials said.
"The city is flooded and there are parts where the water gets to 2 meters (6.5 feet)," said Alta Jean-Baptiste, the head of the Caribbean country's civil protection agency.
"A lot of people have been climbing onto the tops of their houses since last night to escape the flooding."
Gonaives police commissioner Ernst Dorfeulle said much of the population of the city -- thought to be Haiti's fourth largest -- had been forced to climb onto their rooftops.
"The police have seen 10 bodies but the death toll must be much heavier," Dorfeulle told Reuters by telephone.
"It is a very serious situation. Those people on the top of their roofs are being lashed by rain and cannot be rescued."
Eyewitnesses in Gonaives, a northern port city, said roads there were completely impassable.
Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, is extremely vulnerable to disastrous flash floods because most of its hillsides have been stripped of trees by people desperate for charcoal to use as cooking fuel.Mudslides and flooding caused by Tropical Storm Jeanne in 2004 killed around 3,000 people in Gonaives. Spring floods earlier that year were blamed for another 2,000 deaths near the border with the Dominican Republic.
The passage last week of Hurricane Gustav left at least 76 people dead in Haiti while Tropical Storm Fay in August killed more than 50, most of them when a crowded bus was swept away as it tried to cross a rain-swollen river.
Haitian Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime was on the way to Gonaives to supervise rescue operations, Jean-Baptiste said.
"The hospital in Gonaives is completely flooded," she said. "We are now evacuating the patients. For now we are taking them to a higher place in the hospital but they cannot stay there."
Jean-Baptiste said the government had asked United Nations peacekeepers in the country to organize a flight to Gonaives to carry firefighters capable of carrying out search and rescue operations.
Tropical Storm Hanna was located some distance away from Haiti over the southeastern Bahamas on Tuesday. But it was a large, messy storm and Haitian meteorologists said heavy rains falling over the country were an indirect result of Hanna.
(Writing by Michael Christie, Editing by Jane Sutton)
[Christ Compassion Orphanage Picture is ours not Rueters]
By Joseph Guyler Delva
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Heavy rains triggered by Tropical Storm Hanna triggered severe flooding and killed at least 10 people in the Haitian city of Gonaives, where thousands died four years ago during a similar catastrophe, officials said.
"The city is flooded and there are parts where the water gets to 2 meters (6.5 feet)," said Alta Jean-Baptiste, the head of the Caribbean country's civil protection agency.
"A lot of people have been climbing onto the tops of their houses since last night to escape the flooding."
Gonaives police commissioner Ernst Dorfeulle said much of the population of the city -- thought to be Haiti's fourth largest -- had been forced to climb onto their rooftops.
"The police have seen 10 bodies but the death toll must be much heavier," Dorfeulle told Reuters by telephone.
"It is a very serious situation. Those people on the top of their roofs are being lashed by rain and cannot be rescued."
Eyewitnesses in Gonaives, a northern port city, said roads there were completely impassable.
Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, is extremely vulnerable to disastrous flash floods because most of its hillsides have been stripped of trees by people desperate for charcoal to use as cooking fuel.Mudslides and flooding caused by Tropical Storm Jeanne in 2004 killed around 3,000 people in Gonaives. Spring floods earlier that year were blamed for another 2,000 deaths near the border with the Dominican Republic.
The passage last week of Hurricane Gustav left at least 76 people dead in Haiti while Tropical Storm Fay in August killed more than 50, most of them when a crowded bus was swept away as it tried to cross a rain-swollen river.
Haitian Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime was on the way to Gonaives to supervise rescue operations, Jean-Baptiste said.
"The hospital in Gonaives is completely flooded," she said. "We are now evacuating the patients. For now we are taking them to a higher place in the hospital but they cannot stay there."
Jean-Baptiste said the government had asked United Nations peacekeepers in the country to organize a flight to Gonaives to carry firefighters capable of carrying out search and rescue operations.
Tropical Storm Hanna was located some distance away from Haiti over the southeastern Bahamas on Tuesday. But it was a large, messy storm and Haitian meteorologists said heavy rains falling over the country were an indirect result of Hanna.
(Writing by Michael Christie, Editing by Jane Sutton)
Prayer for our "LOVED ONES IN HAITI"
As of 3:00 PM we have no other contact with Pastor Luc. He does not answer his cell or home phone.
We have added some reports at the bottom of this site since first posting the original. You can also look at the Worldrenewal-Haiti blog but we will have the latest right here.
Children of Christ Compassion Orphanage in Gonaive, Haiti.
Pastor Luc called this morning at 7:30 AM Eastern Time and was at the orphanage which was flooding and he was evacuating our 25 children to higher ground. He was hoping to take them to his new house we have constructed for Luc and his family and all those who live with him. The new house is on higher ground but a good distance of walking. None of our staff there own a car or truck, only motorcycles. It is dangerous walking in flooded streets because you cannot see the open sewers. The tropical storm Hanna has flooded the streets of Gonaive which is right on the coast and the location of Christ Compassion Orphanage, our church and school in Gonaive.
Please pray for them all as Pastor Luc was very concerned. It is a desperate situation. We will update this site as we have news.
We know we have damage, it is just how much.
We have set up an emergency fund: LOVED ONES IN HAITI Donations can be done online or sent to our office PO Box 399 Greenfield, IN 46140
I am including the email Max Wright has sent out since I wrote the above:
Dear friends
I received a desperate call for prayer, from Haiti this morning from my friend and National Pastor Luc Joseph living in Gonaives Haiti. At the time 7:50am, he was at our Orphanage trying to get 25 children to safety from flood waters.
Gonaives is located in a runoff area and in 2004 when Hurricane Jean hit 3000 people died as a result of the flooding.
Would you please pray that God will bring the Children and Luc’s family to safety. And help them to minister to those who may be devastated by this Hurricane.
If you look at the news channels, you will find little if any of this information, partially due to the isolation but partly due to or narcissism of our society, so concerned about our own situation that we rarely see people reach beyond our own concerns.
Don’t let this be only a blip on your radar screen. The prayers of the richious availeth much.
I H S,
Max R Wright
World Renewal International –Haiti
I received a desperate call for prayer, from Haiti this morning from my friend and National Pastor Luc Joseph living in Gonaives Haiti. At the time 7:50am, he was at our Orphanage trying to get 25 children to safety from flood waters.
Gonaives is located in a runoff area and in 2004 when Hurricane Jean hit 3000 people died as a result of the flooding.
Would you please pray that God will bring the Children and Luc’s family to safety. And help them to minister to those who may be devastated by this Hurricane.
If you look at the news channels, you will find little if any of this information, partially due to the isolation but partly due to or narcissism of our society, so concerned about our own situation that we rarely see people reach beyond our own concerns.
Don’t let this be only a blip on your radar screen. The prayers of the richious availeth much.
I H S,
Max R Wright
World Renewal International –Haiti
This afternoon another ministry posted this letter, what would be true for them and their teachers and children would be the same for us:
Dear Friends:
Four years ago Gonaives was severely hit by Hurricane Jeanne and more than 3000 were killed. About midnight this morning a friend of us received a call from someone in Gonaives saying that the city is going under water. That person was trying to reach us to share this news with us but it was not till 6:30 when she finally got thru.
My wife made a few phone calls to know what the situation was like there. the news are not good. Water has gotten to the ceiling of the houses and people are on the house tops. One Pastor we talked to said that he survived Jeanne but he has very little hope to survive this one because Jeanne at this time the water was receding but now it is just the opposite.
I am not able to reach anybody in Lacroix yet. Most of our teachers live in Gonaives and I worry for their survivance. The people we spoke with were on their house top.
Covet your prayers. I will keep you posted if I have any more news.
PP
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