Christianville Update

Missionairies Needed

Fri, 07 May 2010 05:00:00 GMT

Christianville is looking for a couple to serve as Guest House Coordinators. Duties include hosting short term teams (scheduling visitors, meal planning, airport transport, etc) and overseeing team activities (construction projects, evangelism, VBS, etc) If interested please contact Ed & Pat at happyinhaiti@yahoo.com

Supply Ship Arrives

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

The ship with the first container of tents, tools, tables, chairs, food and medical supplies arrived in dock Saturday 3/20/2010. We went to Tetayen Sunday and picked it up. Praise God everything went smoothly!

Thanks for all the effort coordinating and collecting supplies!

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Open Letter From the Board of Directors To Christianville Supporters

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

TO CHRISTIANVILLE SUPPORTERS

This is an open letter to all our supporters of Christianville Foundation from the board of directors.

As all of you know, Christianville was heavily damaged by an earthquake on January 12, 2010. We had no injuries or deaths of our missionaries or short term team on campus at the time of the quake. But, there were numerous injuries and deaths among the area Haitians. The medical team, with the help of everyone at Christianville, worked feverishly and continues to work night and day to aid those injured and dying.

We need your prayers and your continued support. It is going to be a long process to rebuild Christianville. With God’s guidance and your help Christianville will survive.

The following buildings were destroyed:

High school
College
Eye clinic
Eye clinic apartments
Medical clinic’s lab and pharmacy
New medical apartments
New kindergarten classrooms

Buildings damaged but repairable:

Director’s home
Maintenance supervisor’s residence
Guest house coordinator’s residence
New FISH guest house
FISH ponds
Church
Dental clinic

We will have a structural engineer travel to Christianville to evaluate all of our buildings and give us an estimate of damages. We estimate the damage will be between 1 and 2 million, possibly more depending on the evaluation.

Our supporters are asking about the future of Christianville and are especially concerned about students that they are supporting. We had 1200 students enrolled. We can’t give you information about individual students until we can establish communications with those students and our people on the ground.

Our board has decided to continue paying our employees as long as we have support coming in. We feel that adding a hardship of not being paid with little or no chance of finding work would just add to their misery.

Thank you for your support and prayers. We need both now more than ever. Please keep the Haitian people and Christianville in your prayers.

You can send help to Christianville Foundation

P.O. Box 24598

Jacksonville, Florida 32241

Please memo Earth Quake relief and we will use those funds to help the people of Haiti.

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Letter to Friends of Christianville from Ron Hartman

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Dear friends of Christianville:

Hello. My name is Ron Hartman, and I am a short-term missionary that was going to be leading a team to Christianville on January 23^rd. I am writing you with a heavy heart. I’m sure that by now you all have heard of the horrific damage from the earthquake in Haiti, and perhaps you have been following the updates on the Christianville website (http://www.christianvillehaiti.org). While the scope of this disaster is truly heartbreaking, there are also blessings that can be found at Christianville.

It is a blessing that the quake happened so late in the day, when the schools and clinics were already closed. Thankfully most of the buildings were empty when they collapsed. It is a blessing that the missionaries were unharmed so that they can continue to minister to the Haitian people, and it is a blessing that while some of the Haitian staff at Christianville were injured, there was only one death. It is also a blessing that most of the churches that Christianville started survived. I spoke with Doug Reichley, the guesthouse coordinator, last weekend and he said that to the best of his knowledge all of the satellite churches remain standing, though some have sustained damage. God is watching over and protecting His people in Haiti, even in this, their darkest of times.

As most of you probably know, Christianville has been in Haiti for thirty years, and the buildings that comprise the compound have been added over the years as funds were available. To have nearly all of them either destroyed or so damaged as to be unusable is a disaster that is nearly incomprehensible. The preliminary estimate for clean-up and rebuilding is around $1.5 million, and of course the humanitarian need of the local Haitian people is beyond telling.

So I am reaching out to you, the friends of Christianville. You have been in the compound and have seen God’s greatness as he works in the hearts of the Haitian people. You understand how important Christianville is, and how vital it is that the missionaries continue their ministry to their neighbors. Please donate funds to Christianville to help with this unprecedented disaster, to help Christianville rise from the ashes and continue to spread God’s word.

Tax-deductible donations can be made to Christianville Foundation, Inc, attention Ross Cowen, Treasurer at the address below. If you were as moved by your time in Haiti as I was, please help us build the new Christianville for the everlasting glory of God.

Christianville Foundation, Inc

Attn: Ross Cowen, Treasurer

PO Box 24598

Jacksonville, FL 32241

In His name,

Ron Hartman, PharmD, RPh

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Supplies

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Plans being finalized for flight from Kansas with supplies. Coast guard lands on soccer field with supplies and flies out most critically injured patients. Team of engineers sets up supports so that pharmacy supplies are rescued successfully. Orthopedic surgeon, Robert Belding attempted to get to Bonne Finn and was unable to enter the country. Will try again tomorrow.

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Looking for supplies under rubble

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Missionaries looking for supplies under rubble. Treating some patients. Emailing and making contacts. Jenn making supply run to Cayes. HHM found helicopter. Arrangements finalized for flight to leave Sunday. Supplies purchased, sorted, inventoried, packed, and weighed.

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Forming plan

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Missionaries forming plan and regrouping. Made supply runs. Supply list formed. News interviews. Paper interviews, Radio interviews. Found plane, trying to find a way to get it into country.

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Treating patients

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Missionaries spent day treating patients on lawn with no sleep. HHM Spent day making contacts and assessing situation.

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Earthquake strikes close to home

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT

An earthquake 7.3 on the Richter scale struck less than 10 miles from Christianville clinic. All Americans have been reported safe, but many Haitians are injured.

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