Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010
Dear Pastors and Brethren,
May the grace and mercy of God our Lord be with you and your family.
We have not been able to send you a report on our work in Haiti for a couple of reasons:
1) During the past two weeks we have only been returning from Haiti to Santo Domingo on the weekends to be with the family and the church, and
2) As you well know, these trips can wear you our physically and emotionally.
But, what have we done in the past two weeks?
1) Delivered a great amount of food rations to very needy people.
2) Performed several medical clinics in which more than 1,200 persons were attended, and delivered all the medicines to cover their needs.
3) Brought enough food for a month to the two orphanages, where 58 children have been living in very precarious conditions. We also provided them with mattresses, sheets and mosquito nets.
4) Delivered medicine, sheets and food to several hospitals.
5) In other places, we delivered water and sun resistant canvasses to substitute the old rags under which many people were living, as well as a great quantity of bottled water with evangelistic Bible verses; and many other things the Lord has allowed us to do to help these people in need.
What are our immediate plans? Lord willing…
1) Next week we will return with members of other Dominican and American churches to perform medical clinics and help all we can in this situation.
2) We will bring food, medicine, bottled water in great supply, and 50 canvasses where 14 persons can be comfortably sheltered in each; in other words, about 700 persons will be able to protect themselves from the sun and rain. Unfortunately the rainy season started and this has aggravated the problems for those who live under old rags.
3) We plan to bring about 30,000 children’s catechisms in Creole. These have been insistently requested by the churches where we have visited.
Please pray for the groups that will be traveling next week to Port-Au-Prince and other places that have great needs and have suffered so much because of this tragedy. Pray that in this trip we may not only bring material help, but that we may glorify the Name of the Lord by preaching His Word and doing the work He has called us to, in the love of Christ. The most important thing is that the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ be glorified in the midst of all this tragedy and that many may come to a saving knowledge of the truth.
Your servants,
Miguel Angel Castillo, and Huáscar de Salas
Pastors, Bible Foundation Church
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic