UPDATE: Urgent opportunity to bring relief to Haiti
On Tuesday, January 19, 2010, Dr. Hantz Bernard left for Haiti, and will be assessing needs and opportunities that BMM World Relief funds can be used to help meet the emergency needs of his countrymen affected by the January 12 earthquake. A Haitian national, Dr. Bernard is director of BMM’s Bible translation division, Bibles International. He served many years as a well-respected pastor in Haiti, and he and his wife know of family and friends lost or unaccounted for after the earthquake. Although the trip will be heart-rending for Dr. Bernard, he will be an encouragement to everyone he meets. Please pray for him.
Churches and individual believers have already responded rapidly and generously in supplying funds for the World Relief Haiti effort. As Baptist Mid-Missions receives direct information from sources in Haiti, initial steps will be to provide emergency food, clothing, supplies, and housing as well as to help repair housing. To learn more about the current situation among BMM missionaries and ministry partners in Haiti, click here.
Your help is still vitally needed and enables us to respond with critically needed resources. You can be assured that not only physical needs will be met but spiritual ones as well. For those who are suffering and have no assurance of a personal relationship with Christ, the Haiti World Relief effort will put them in proximity with Christians and churches that will give a distinct gospel witness. And, 100 percent of World Relief gifts go into the relief effort without anything being kept back for Baptist Mid-Missions’ administrative expenses.
If the Lord is challenging you to help bring the compassion and truth of Christ to Haiti, your help will be greatly appreciated. You can give online through BMM World Relief’s web page. Please designate your gift “World Relief,” when requested on PayPal. You may also contact the Administrator for World Relief, Larry Beckman, at lbeckman@bmm.org. Checks may be sent to Baptist Mid-Missions, PO Box 308011, Cleveland, OH 44130, designated “World Relief Haiti.” In Canada, checks may be sent to Baptist Mid-Missions, 187 McLaughlin Dr. • Moncton, NB E1A 4P4.
On behalf of Baptist Mid-Missions—thank you for your support in prayer and tangible relief.
Photo above taken by IFRC/Eric Quintero (p-HTI0156) Used through the Creative Commons licensing of Flickr. Original photo caption: Tens of thousands of Haitians have been living on the streets since a 7.3 earthquake struck Port-au-Prince on January 2010.