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URGENT Haiti Earthquake Relief 2021

Haiti Earthquake Relief 2021

Dear Mission of Tears Supporters, Friends and Family,

As you have seen in the news, in the early morning hours of the 14th of August 2021 a destructive 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit southern Haiti. Over 1200 lives have been lost and we fear the number will continue rising. Thankfully, our staff, partners on the ground and the children in our care are all safe and accounted for. FEJ buildings that house the children, medical clinic, offices and school are all fine so we are in a good position to assist the survivors in this crisis.

Currently, we are working on assessing specific needs, but a state of emergency has already been declared in the country and we are preparing to provide whatever assistance needed.

Please keep the survivors of the earthquake in your thoughts and prayers. If you would like to provide financial support to assist us in helping our Haitian friends at this time, please select the designation "Haiti 2021 Earthquake Relief" on our CanadaHelps Donation Form where you can give by credit card and other means. All gifts are 100% tax receiptable in Canada.

Our sincere thanks,

Mission of Tears

 

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Coram Deo receives Barrel of Blessing!

Wow! We just got back from picking up the barrel 😃 The barrel did have a dent in it but otherwise it was sealed and in good shape. We brought tote boxes and our hand fork to bring the barrel to our vehicle. We opened the barrel and packed everything into the totes. When we got back to the house we put everything in the kitchen and did an inventory. 100% arrived and nothing was missing from the packing lust  Please let everyone know that we are very thankful. Thank you for sending the barrel 😃 The staff at FEJ are organized. Please tell everyone that everything came through perfectly. The prices in Haiti for things are very high. We used to get 120 gourdes for 1 us$ and now we are getting 60 gourdes for 1 us $. We lose half our funds in the exchange rate and prices in the stores are still being listed at the higher rate. The boxes of cereal you sent would have cost us 200 us$ in the stores in Haiti. This is a huge blessing for us. Thank you . Here are the pictures of the barrel as we received it and putting the food on the table for inventory. 😃 Thanks again and tell everyone that nothing is missing and we received everything 😃 It was a perfect shipment 😃

Karen Bultje

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First Shipment on it's way!

Our faithful volunteers along with Gordon and Diane packing the first 8 barrels to be shipped.   
These first 8 barrels were shipped July 31 and two pictures represent that actual shipping of July 31.

 

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Haiti Barrels of Blessings Program

Barrels of Blessings

Help Haiti during COVID

Fill a Barrel of Donated Supplies for Haitian Children

An urgent plea has come for us to donate supplies to our FEJ partners on the ground in Haiti who serve children through their school and infants through their orphanage. With your help we can provide and ship barrels of donated supplies directly to FEJ.

The situation in Haiti is desperate, we have received reports that COVID -19 continues to spread and people are dying without even being diagnosed. Mission of Tears, through FEJ is preparing to do everything we can but we need your help.

For a complete list of items needed and to signup to help fill a barrel Click Here

 

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Introducing our Barrels of Blessing Program

Airplanes and trips are on hold for now but Missions of Tears is still doing ministry and our partners on the ground are counting on us. Our Barrels of Blessing program planning began pre July but the first actual action to implement the program was July 9th pictured here in the first two photos of Gordon Lewis and a volunteer unloading from the Uhaul van that brought our first empty barrels brought from the supplier in Toronto to our Havelock of Mission of TEARS. We are stepping out in faith that God will bless this and that our friends will help us fill and ship these barrels and meet the needs of those who receive them.

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Haiti Soccer Bible Camp 2017

It truly was an amazing trip doing a Soccer/Music/Crafts VBS with 100 kids August 20 - 27, 2017. Our theme "God made you for a reason!" came from our Day 5 verse Jeremiah 29:11: "For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord". We shared the gospel message Day 1: God made You; Day 2: God is for You; Day 3: God is always with You; Day 4: God will always love You; Day 5: God made you for a reason.

We also successfully connected the computer lab to the internet using donated KOS equipment. Establishing wifi tower connection of the Vocational School to the Medical Centre half a kilometre away was remarkable.

I've been to Haiti numerous times and I think this was the best trip so far. No one got sick with the different food and the 36 degree temperatures, which is amazing in itself. Best of all, we got to share the Gospel and the message of Hope was very well received. It's still amazing to me, the kids that come mostly live in homes of sticks and mud, the airplane ride is like a time machine back to Biblical times and the scriptures feel very meaningful there. Unlike us, they actually understand Luke 12:22 Then Jesus said to his disciples: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear.". It's humbling to be with people who trust God for their basic necessities of life.

I had the privilege to lead the team each night in devotions which was immediately followed by our "God Sightings" reports where people got a chance to share how they had seen God working that day. It was a very popular and special team time each night. The team has been asked, as they settle back into "normal life" to try as best they can not to get too caught up with normal life and miss out on the God Sightings, they are with us everyday.

Praise God for a safe and very successful trip!

We have brought many stories and some interesting things back from Haiti. We are hoping everyone will join us for a Haiti Banquet night coming this fall (date yet to be determined).

If you would to receive communication about this trip or future trips, please join our email list and like us on facebook.

Thanks
Dave Lawrence
Emmanuel Baptist Church, Haiti Team Lead

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Fabienne's Testimony

Fabienne’s Testimony

Fabienne�s Testimony

This mother is the beneficiary of the first house built post–hurricane Matthew through Mission of T.E.A.R.S. Hurricane Relief. Her story explains from a "Mothers Heart" why home and family are so critical to every woman, no matter the country or culture. 

According to her statements, Fabienne's family of 8 (Fabienne, her husband and 6 children) were facing a number of obstacles and did not have the means to get out of this unfortunate situation. Her husband was overwhelmed and didn't know what to do to take care of his family, with a handicapped wife.

Our Interview With Fabienne:

FEJ - Can you tell us about your life before the construction of this House?

Fabienne: Before FEJ, Mission of Tears and Emmanuel church's team members built this house for me, I was living in a terrible situation, in misery. These circumstances were very hard. My family was homeless and had no food after Matthew.

I was ashamed and felt humiliated. My family and I were living at my aunt's house and it wasn't pleasant. Our life condition was horrible. It is a miracle that God has put FEJ on my path. We are finally getting back on our feet.

I remember how life was hard and painful, yet FEJ has done the most and it changed our lives considerably.

FEJ - Can you tell us more about your children?

Fabienne - Now my children are living in a more stable environment, and are happy now.
Living at my aunt's wasn't easy. She was rude and disrespectful. As a mother, I felt like I was letting my children down, and could not even give them the bare minimum. Now things are better and they are happy and I can see smiles on their faces.

FEJ - Let's talk about your husband: does he appreciate the house?

Fabienne - Oh yes! He's relieved because it was his responsibility to provide for our household and was unable to do so in these living conditions. He is so thankful that the Foundation was able to help us with everyone else who took part in this miracle.

FEJ - How did people in the neighbourhood react?

Fabienne - Once the house was completed they stop making fun of me and my family. It is with a spirit of gratitude and recognition that I speak today, I want to say a big thank you to FEJ, all who helped at the construction of the house, especially Mission of Tears and Emmanuel church members who gave me the opportunity to live a normal life again like people in my neighbourhood you, May the Lord Bless you.

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Hurricane Matthew: Urgent Help Needed

Mission of Tears in partnership on the ground with Fondation Enfant Jesus is actively working to help in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew which destroyed homes and blocked roads making the cleanup and distribution of food and clean water very difficult.

Please visit our Canada Helps donation page to help raise $100,000 for Emergency Relief Funding.

Consider joining one of our rescue team trips under our Opportunities section.

Medical Supplies are urgently needed, see list of things we need.

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Haiti Computer Lab Project

We are excited to announce that Mission of Tears working in partnership with Emmanuel Baptist Church in Bloomfield and OSM Networks of Belleville has established a project to establish a computer lab at Fondation Enfant Jesus(FEJ) location at La Mardelle in Haiti.

This computer lab is part of the FEJ Vocational Training Centre vision which will provide education and training to 90 students aged 16 - 25 starting in 2016/17.

Visit our web page for more details and to give to this amazing project.

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Haiti Election 2015

The elections are scheduled for Dec. 27th but now are being contested and boycotted by many.  The leading top candidate Jovenel Moise is the from the incumbent party Tet Kale of the outgoing President Michel Martelly. The runner up in the race Jude Celestin is accusing massive fraud and is threatening to withdraw.  For that reason Haiti is facing a challenge in democracy as many hold the belief that no election will ever be fair because all politicians are corrupted.  Less than 20% turned out for the runoff elections held to reduce the final numbers of politicians from 54 running for president to the now main two of Celestin and Moise.

Many Haitians now look back on the dictatorships of Francios and Jean Cloude Duvalier as better days because the country seemed to have better order and less individual hardship despite the lack in democratic freedoms.

Pray for the elections to end peacefully and to provide a new government that will work to increase the well being of all Haitians.

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Video: Coram Deo in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

 

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Haiti news report 2015

Haiti is still recovering from the 2010 earthquake.  Mission of T.E.A.R.S still works with our Haitian partners toward that recovery.  The tent camps are not as numerous but still do exist. 

Haiti Camp

Haiti Camp

Life in these camps is so difficult it is hard for westerners to even comprehend how anyone could endure this for so long.  But many do so each day with little hope of anything changing or of any good to come.  Camp life is the hardest on the youngest and most vulnerable, the children.

Mission of T.E.A.R.S. has partnered with a group of Christian Haitians providing a once weekly children' feeding and day program in one of the last large tent camps remaining.  The Project became known as "Its a Good Life".

 One key group trip of 2014 was introducing this project to the Norwood Pentecostal Church who after visiting this project with us have committed to stand with our partners and Mission of T.E.A.R.S.  Here are some of the pictures of the Norwood group in action at the camp site in 2014.

Bev shares a Bible Story with the children

Bev shared a Bible Story with the children

The children start out shy but soon all are making crafts and proudly display them

The Children start out shy but soon all are making crafts and proudly display them

The puppet show and its gospel message was a huge success and the children loved it

The Puppet Show and it's Gospel Message

Thanks to those behind the scenes like Kim, Jackie and Bev and all the rest of the group for a job well done.

Thanks to Kim, Jackie and Bev for their behind the scenes work.

There was time for special one on one moments

Special One on One moments

Special One on One moments

The children are all thankful for the food some even more than we may understand.

The Children are thankful for the Food

Those in the camps still need our support specifically the children.  You can help them by providing to Mission of T.E.A.R.S a generous gift to support this project.  

If you or your church or group have the expertise Mission of T.E.A.R.S. can provide the venue for your ministry time in Haiti. Contact us for more information on our next upcoming trip.

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