Below is a recent news update and photos from one of
GeoBound's ministry partners:
Eldon and Donna Bryce with
FEED A CHILD MINISTRY. The Bryces have been missionaries to Haiti for over 27 years.
Donna writes, "Here on Bobby and Sherry Burnette's, Love A Child Mission compound, where Eldon and I live, there has been a huge area of ground set aside for bringing in injured people from all over Haiti...the young, the old.....babies, mamas, grandmas....you name it!"
"There are helicopters landing continually on our "makeshift helicopter pad;" which consists of a circle made from ten gallons of white paint poured on the ground in a big circle, with an "X" painted in the middle."
"Dozens of Haitians are on cots or mattresses on the ground, with IV's hanging in the trees.....many with limbs broken, feet, hands or arms cut off and others with bandages and casts over much of their body. A special generator has been put on the ground, allowing light at night for the doctors and nurses to work around the clock to help these precious Haitian people. In the past few days several surgeries have been performed right here in the yard, in order to save lives!"
"The situation in the city (Port au Prince) the sights are unbelievable. In all my life I have never seen such devastation everywhere, and have never felt so helpless. Thousands of people are still buried underneath the tons of concrete rubble that are everywhere, and as of today the search for those still trapped under those huge piles of debris has been called off.....no one could still be alive now!!!"
"One of the pictures that we're sending you is Pastor Enock's church. Pastor Enock was not only our Haitian administrator for Feed A Child, but was a very dear friend who has been in Heaven for five years now. His work was our very first project when we moved to Haiti in 1983, and we helped build his church of about 700 people, had a school there and fed about 300 children every day for 25 years. It is now an enormous pile of disaster and dead bodies......we don't even have any idea how many!"
"Our longtime friend for thirty years, Johnny Esther, is on his way out to our house to pick up food for 100 families who have had nothing to eat for the past sixteen days. Paula, our Evangelism Director has two sisters, and their families, who have lost everything, and are now in the streets of Port au Prince, where thousands of families have made temporary shelters out of sheets and any piece of fabric they can find, tying it to little sticks about 4 feet high.....these tiny places bunched together, with not even a space big enough to walk in between them resembling acres and acres of splotches of color!"
We want to thank everyone who prayed and gave to our relief effort helping the people of Haiti. Because of your generous giving we have been able to provide financial resources to our partner ministries in Haiti. They are providing shelter, food, medical care and ministry to the devastated Haitians.
Rev. Lee Sullivan was recently in Port au Prince, Haiti, at his orphanage, school and church. Miraculously, most the buildings were not damaged. Over 1000 homeless are living within the walls of the ministry facility. Mr. Sullivan's ministry is providing resources to help sustain the survivors. Please be praying for his strength and physical health (he is 77 years old). He had to return back to the States for medical tests and treatment. He intends on returning back to Haiti in a few days. His Haitian ministry director is carrying on the relief effort at the ministry location in Port Au Prince. GeoBound has supported this ministry for several years and has also provided a water well drilling project at the orphanage in years past.
