UPDATE #11

el shaddai ministries international, inc.
HAITI RELEIF UPDATE AND PRAYER REQUEST

Please be in prayer for DouDou. On Wednesday he became ill and was hospitalized. Madame DouDou is with him. Those of you who know DouDou, whose name is really Jean-Milou Pierre, know how special he is to us at ESMI. He's a good brother in the Lord and a wonderful servant of the Lord. Please, please keep him in your prayers. You can see a photo of him on Haiti Update #10.

I, Sharon, am here with Dony in Haiti. I flew in yesterday. We began our journey to Gonaives immediately. I met 25 of the 145 ESMI works with in training. One was pastor, whose only training has been with ESMI teachers, has a 500 member congregation. He and the others were so happy to receive the food, funds, and clothes carried into Gonaives. Several of the pastors had to walk through miles of knee-high water to meet us. Some were bare-footed. Time was spent in prayer before the distribution. This morning, several of them will meet the food truck in one city, load it on, and take it back to Gonaives, distribute it among themselves and then head into their communities. With the need being so great the other days, they weren't able to get much of the supplies.

Today's Plan-"Si Bondye Vle"

The Haitian Christians, whenever talking about plans for the future, will always, yes always use this expression at the beginning or end of their thought, "si Bondye vle." This literally means, "if God wants," or "if God will permit."

So, "si Bondye vle"
1. Be abe to provide quickly in mattress for 300 more orphans in Gonaives
2. Get a few food supplies for the medical team arriving this morning. The Hoberson "Hotel" in the city of Gonaives has graciously opened rooms for this team only.
3. Team will fly to Gonaives via US Army chopper, we will go via ground and meet them with the car.
4. Begin seeing children at Gonaives orphanage and then those in the community. One pastor mentioned yesterday that he has many children in his community that are sick but he has no way of bring them because the water is still too high.
5. Work in Gonaives until Sunday evening and drive back

Please keep this weekend in your prayer.

Container items needed for Haiti

(SEE MORE DETAILED LIST BELOW OR ATTACHED EXCEL AND WORD DOCUMENTS)

We need clothing, clothing summer weight only please for men, women, boys, girls, infants and please make sure these are new or very gently worn clothes.

Medicine is another for this container this is a list for both the orphans and the people
Shoes, socks for all ages, especially the croc type (generic) shoes and undergarments all ages too.
Toiletries: wash cloth, towels, tooth brushes, toothpaste, soap, shampoo, conditioner, vaseline petroline jelly, combs
Flashlight or lanterns with batteries
Twin size mattress and bed frames for the orphans and double size mattress' and bed frames for the orphan care givers and Haitian pastors
Over the counter meds: cough syrup, tylenol, hydrocortisone cream, neosporin, vitamins, etc.

A 40 -foot container will be at El Shaddai Presbyterian Church September 22-29.  Please send what you have collected beginning next week to:

El Shaddai Presbyterian Church
11303 NE 13th Avenue
Miami, FL 33161

Please continue to keep all that's happening in your prayers.

Dony St. Germain

P..S Will not have internet access for the next 3 days.




LIST OF NEEDS
Prescription medications
Scabies medication
Pink Eye medication
Typhoid Fever
Malaria
Deworming medications - Albendazole and Mebendazole


Medical needs

Head lice medication
Vitamins
Hydrocortisone
Neosporin
Band-Aids
First aid kit for each house mother
Cotton balls
Neosporin
Peroxide
Alcohol
Iodine
Tylenol
Cough medicine
Motrin
Benadryl
Calamine lotion
Gatorade and pedalyte
Selsun Blue
Silverdine
Medicated soap - Technozol
Kaopectate
Q-tips for applying medication
Gauze
Gauze tape
gloves


Dinning related ( this is not an exasulted list just the basics)

Plastic soup bowls
Plastic dinner plate
Plastic 12 oz cups
Stainless steel forks
Stainless steel spoons
Plastic table clothes – rectangle (large)
Kitchen

Personal items needed
Twin and doulble bed mattress
and frames
Plywood if frames don't have a place for a mattress (box springs will be to bulky to ship)


Twin flat and fitted sheet
Twin fitted water proof mattress cover
Towels
Wash rags
Toilet paper
Soap – unscented
Shampoo – Suave OK Selsun Blue best
Conditioner – Suave OK
Hair oil – Blue Magic - children's oil and detangler
(look in African American section in Walmart, used for conditioning the scalp and hair)
Tooth brushes – children size
Tooth paste
Coco butter lotion for body
Baby powder with corn starch
Deodorant/for older orphans
Small tooth comb for girls
Boar Bristle hair brush – for African style hair boys & girls use
 

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