RELIEF PROJECTS

All of the icons below are things and places that were affected by January's earthquake in Haiti. Joel and April have been getting a lot of emails about ways in which individuals can help, and they thought this might be a cool way to provide the opportunity to do so. To see more pictures of a specific project, just click on the icon and it will direct you to correct set of pictures. If you are interested in helping out with a specific project, please contact Johnny and Sandra Craft (using the contact page at the top) via e-mail and state which project you would like to help fund. Once somebody has offered to financially support a project, this web page will be updated with that information.

We thank the Lord that the compound did not sustain much damage during the earthquake.

The damage that was done is very fixable and fairly inexpensive. All four corners are falling apart, and will need cement poured in and columns. The addition that we had just added to the walls a few months ago has crumbled as well. It will need to be fixed all the way around.

We also have major damage in the upstairs stair well going to the roof. It will need to be knocked down and rebuilt, and then have some columns put in. It is unsafe to walk through right now. It will not hold many more tremors.

We are really thankful for how the church held up. It is standing, but there is some structural damage. The front wall of the church is cracked majorly in four places, and is really needing to be repaired. The other walls are also showing cracking, mainly near the foundation and some in the corners. We are wanting to put in at least 12 columns for extra support as well. The estimated cost for these projects are $6,397.50.

During the earthquake, our school sustained a lot of damage. A lot of the walls separating the classrooms were broken down, some desk and tables destroyed etc. We were in the process of showing you the damage and need for funds to repair. However, God had a different plan of action! He sent in a team last week to totally rebuild those walls, and build some new school benches for us! He is an awesome God! Thanks to the score team that came in and worked so hard to make this possible!

Basically our needs have been met! We have some things that we have been wanting the school to have since before the earthquake, they are not urgent.

Our teachers are needing desk and to give the walls a chairs in there rooms, they have nowhere to work out of, we are wanting fresh coat of paint, and some other minor things.

Where do we begin. Our church at Leogane is pastured by a elderly gentleman named, Pastor Gilles. He has been there over 30 years being faithful to the call of God to be a missionary to his own people. He lived in a small parsonage on the property, and ran a school of where over 300 children attended, and the church where over 100 attended. As most of you know Leogane was hit the hardest during the earthquake, and our work in leogane lost everything. The house is flat, some of the church walls are standing, but have sustained major damage and will have to brought down. The school is about halfway down, there were no columns in the school building, so most of the walls crumbled. The compound walls are all completely down. Almost every person in the church has lost there home. Four of the congregation were killed, including a 8 year old boy.

Praise the Lord in the last week, God provided a huge 40x140 foot tent to the congregation to live in and have church in. And we were able to find a truckload of MRE’s for the church. We have been collecting clothes from our congregation at Despinos to take out to the people also.

To rebuild this work will take a lot of manpower and funds. It will need to be cleared out first, and then rebuilt. Prayerful consider partnering with us to rebuild this 30 year old work, that has been reaching the lost for Christ.

This is Boss Wilfred’s Home. He is a good Christian mason worker that lives just down the street. He is responsible for building the upstairs story to the mission house at Despinos. He had been working on his 4 room home for the past year, and was nearing the final stretches when the earthquake came, and his house crumbled to the ground. Now he has to start over. Robertson is another Christian man in the community who's house collapsed in the community.

NON-EARTHQUAKE NEEDS

Here's a list of items sent to me from Joel and April.  These are things that they're needing at the Haiti Gospel Mission.

• Sheets, pillow cases
• Sandals (regular) or flip flops
• Soap, shampoo, and feminine products
• Money for rebuilding
• Tools: Hack saws, drills (corded and battery powered), hammers, tape measure, sledge hammers, chisels, wheel barrows, pick axe.
• Vehicle: We are in need of a lug wrench and floor jack for the Chevy.
• Tents of all sizes
• Mosquito nets
• Candles
• Plastic Dishes
• Umbrellas tor raincoats
• Towels, wash cloths, dish towels, dish rags.
• Clorox wipes for sterilizing
• Matches
• Vitamins for children & adults

• Multi Purpose Building (can be used for teams, bible studies, children services)
  • Pouring the roof, putting in the electricity, put in bathroom showers, toilets and sinks
  • Doors
• Children's Chapel (used for Children's Church and Chapel)
  • Expanding walls, pouring cement floor, installing 4 fet forge windows, new tin roof, floating and painting.
• Mission Compound House (aka Hess Home, Guest House)
  • Finish upstairs bathroom (flooring, painting)
  • Finishing floating on first floor
  • Kitchen Cabinets
  • Painting, Ceramic (especially downstairs)
  • Floating outside, painting
• Jesse’s House (aka guest house #2)
  • Floating walls, ceramic, painting inside and out
  • Glass windows (6 windows)
  • Enclosing the entire property with a security wall. (the empty field)
    • Once this is accomplished, we can plant a garden, raise our own goats and pigs for eating, chickens etc. we would like to become more self sufficient, but our property is open to the public right now.
    • Our future plan is to possibly open an orphanage, and training  school on this properties.

VEHICLE NEED

We cannot thank God enough for our good ole' suburban. This truck has been amazing; it has saved many many lives, running as an ambulance. However it has been very hard to only have this one machine. Our little Mazda has been giving us many problems and during this crisis, we have really been needing another vehicle. Because the suburban was being used as a ambulance at all hours day and night, we have had to rent a car a few times, which is very expensive. The mission is in great need of another vehicle, so that much can be accomplished. Help us pray for the needed funds for a second vehicle