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July 2007 Newsletter
COURAGESometimes it’s hard to do the things that we know must be done Sometimes it’s hard to see things through, when we would rather run. But somehow we must carry on, in spite of how we feel. When circumstances cause us pain, and life’s a dirty deal. The only thing I have found, to help me follow through Is to pray to God for courage, and I know He’ll answer true. This seems an easy thing to do, when all is well and right. But when the chips are down my friend, it’s hard to see the light. I sometimes lose the faith I have, and curse the light of day. But when the world is upside down, I know it’s time to pray. It’s happened many times before, when I can’t seem to cope. Without God I cannot survive, but with Him there is hope. Author—Syd Anderson—Houston, TX
CHRISTMAS IN AUGUSTWhen: August 20, 2007 (Monday evening)Time: 6:00 for social time, 6:30 to begin dinner then the door prizes and auction Where: First Presbyterian Church 455 Scotland St, Dunedin FL Click here for a map Details: Further details call 727 938 3245 Reservations: Click here for a reservation form
In the August Newsletter we will give you more details along with a suggestion list for gifts to go under the Christmas tree when you come for an evening of truly fun fundraising for the children’s Christmas in Haiti.
Roseline reports some fun...May 31 was our first communication via Internet phone. When the weather was good the signal was great, when it rained, there was static but still not bad. Will continue to research, however, never got a signal strong enough for Internet and the phone only worked from downtown, not headquarters. Roseline called about 8 p.m. all excited. She and Presume had had a great day with a visiting missionary. Roseline met a missionary in Ft. Lauderdale on her way to Haiti. After they chatted the lady became interested in For Haiti with Love and wanted to visit our headquarters. When she got to Haiti she was told there might not be time because of the activities scheduled for them. There was a wedding—the rest of the group went but some said they wanted to rest… then they called to be picked up and spent the afternoon at FHL headquarters. Precious moments to remember. The lady was playing the keyboard and her friends were singing when the Haitians heard the music, knew the hymn and started singing along—in Creole. Magic moments of spiritual togetherness. They wanted to return when the clinic was busy but that didn’t work out. Roseline and Presume did, however, have dinner with them at their hotel before they left and gave them a gift of warm, fresh roasted cashews at the airport while they were waiting to depart.
RAINAs dry as Georgia and Florida have been, the primer and paint for the headquarters roof has been in Haiti since October and the weather hasn’t given them a long enough dry spell to get this job done. So I guess in Haiti we are waiting for the rains in the mountains to give us a week or so to protect the roofs. Rains also make for “mountains of trash” which seem to just happen every night and are cleaned off every day now. 
HOUSE PROJECT:Materials are being purchased as they can be located and plans are progressing on the house being built in Don’s Memory as a “matching funds challenge.” The funds are coming in for this project nicely, we are waiting on the weather most of the time now and will keep you updated on the construction progress. Everything is laid out for the slab pour—but no pictures because there were no good batteries to be found in Cap for the camera… next time! Roseline will take some back from here. 
TRUCK UPDATEWe have all but $170 of the monies needed to pay the truck in full.
FUTURE NEEDS:Cargo money is probably the least glamorous funding we can request. It is so much for rewarding to feel that you have bought a bag of beans or a bag of rice or provided the cream or bandages for a burn patient. Right? But here is an example of what a gift to the cargo portion of our expenses will/can do. For example, we just received a gift of 3 pallets of food packets from Indiana—that required trucking from Indiana (don’t have the bill for that yet) and sea shipping to Cap Haitien which was over $1300. But this is 3 pallets of 33 boxes each containing 36 food packets that will provide 6 meals each—we couldn’t even buy rice for what the cargo will cost and these are totally nutritionally balanced. Another example is the $12,000 for black bean splits—we buy the beans, truck them to Ft. Lauderdale, pay sea shipping on them and then trucking to the headquarters… all for a little over $12,000. BUT, this is 43,000# of split black beans 430 100# bags of beans will feed a whole lot of people! As we explained, moisture apparently got to this batch of beans and many of them have turned to powder and are unfit for distribution, so this project is becoming urgent to get rolling again. 
Last year Abbott donated a year’s supply of formula for the babies in Haiti. These are babies whose mothers died giving them birth or whose mothers are too malnourished to provide breast milk, or babies whose mothers have been burned and can no longer nurse them. About $6,000 in freight charges ships $135,000 wholesale value worth of powdered formula for starving babies. What a bargain… what better way to spend $6,000. 
Abbott is again putting together their numbers to donate formula for another year. We want to be ready with the $6,000 needed to make this happen. This is all the formula we have left from last year’s gift and our experience tells us that it will take at least two months from the time the donation is approved and shipped to our having it at the headquarters for distribution. Monthly there are purchases of rolled bandages, 2” Durapore tape, white petroleum jelly, triple antibiotic creams, pain medications, seizure meds, and other clinic items needed but not donated for which we need your help. Once we have rice and beans they are put into brown bags for distribution—we purchase the bags for the beans. You see there are many expenses that are behind the scene necessary to make the obvious happen or to even utilize some of the donations. We have lost a number of contributors to the Lord recently, those people who have been a part of the very backbone of FHL for many years. Can you help us recruit others who might want to adopt a ministry to Haiti? Our contributions range from $2 a month up. We are a 501c(3) non-profit so gifts are tax deductible for those who itemize. We send out immediate thank you notes and a yearend summary of gifts for the IRS information. Let us know if you want brochures or return envelopes or even extra copies of the newsletter. If you cannot help directly (or even if you can) you can become one of our volunteer fundraisers. Is your church helping? How’s about a club that you belong to or a Bible study group… we need your help to fill the gaps and to increase funding to cover current programs and to expand since the needs in Haiti are increasing. Check—have you given this year? Every cent helps! Think about this one “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop." Mother Theresa God WILL bless you for all prayers and help you can offer in whatever manner whether direct gifts or encouraging others. I keep on my computer these words: “Stop telling God how big your storm is. Instead, tell your storm how big your GOD is….”
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