Update From David Whetstone in Haiti
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Conduit’s First Long Term Missionary
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On March 20, Conduit is going to send out the first long-term missionary. Ben Holeton, who has been partnering with Conduit since it’s inception, will head to Jacmel, Haiti, to work with Restoration Ministries for 3-4 months. You can read more about Ben on our partner’s page, including how to donate to his trip. All donations will go through Conduit and will be tax deductible.
More Food In Haiti
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Conduit Mission work. Caleb Thomas gives us a tour of Restoration Ministries and the food that is being stored there. Thanks to Mentor Leaders and Score International for serving Restoration Ministries and Conduit Mission
Update from Haiti. David Whestone
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David Whestone of Mentor Leaders gives an update on the amazing stuff going on in Jacmel Haiti for Conduit Mission.
Too Many To Count Or Name… Haiti.
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It wasn’t long ago that a Pastor in our community lost his son in a tragic accident. Most of the community grieved with his family. The local news reported on it, and thousands gathered to pay their respects and show support to this wonderful family in such a dark time. We all knew his name, we knew how he died, and we hurt with them.
It’s been hard for me this week to get my mind wrapped around the difference between this and what’s happening in Haiti. Here we were able to celebrate the life of a young man who was taken so young. There was a gathering of lots of people, and his body was laid to rest in a grave with a tombstone marking his life with his name.
In Haiti the bodies are being bulldozed into trucks and dumped into a pit on the edge of town. It’s being reported that the operation is so haphazard that there are still bodies laying on the ground outside the pits. No one has even gotten around to pushing them into the hole, let alone covering them up. There is no paperwork confirming their identities, no ability to notify next of kin, there isn’t even a marker or tombstone listing their names. They’re anonymous. They’ve disappeared. No record that they ever existed let alone died.
Anderson Cooper on CNN expressed his frustration when he said “everyone of their pain deserves to be known”. But when there are over 150,000 of them dead, our minds start to overload. It’s a number that’s impossible to grasp. It’s a number that is physically impossible for them to be mourned individually, for their lives to be celebrated, for their names to be known or even spoken out loud.
It seems pretty unfair, and unjust on the surface, and I suppose if this were the end of the movie and the credits were rolling an argument could be made. But that’s just not true. Every child that died, they had a name. They had a life that was full of ups and downs and joy and sorrow and family and laughter and they were important and unique and as Anderson Cooper says, “every one of their pain deserves to be known”.
John 10 tells us that Jesus knows us each individually and that He calls us by name. More, it seems to indicate that He’s calling them by name inviting them to leave the pen. An amazing metaphor of how it is when we step from this life to the next, with our shepherd, our Jesus, calling you and I individually by name. Maybe on this side of heaven, they’re anonymous, but in an instant their names were being called, individually, specifically, and mercifully.
In Revelation 2:17 there is this amazing statement from Jesus to those that overcome. He said that I will give you a new name, and more than that, He will write it on a white stone. Almost as if saying, that thing you went through, the grief and the pain is over now. The name that’s associated with the guilt, shame and suffering of earth is washed away. There may not be a tombstone this side of heaven with their names carved on it, but there is a white stone on the other side that has their name, a new name given to them each individually by Jesus Himself and written by the same Hand of God that created the heavens and the earth.
This isn’t cliché and it’s not just something to say to make me and you feel better. But one day Jesus, who knows me by name, the most personal part of who I am. The thing that identifies me and the synopsis of who I am. He’s going to calls us by name individually, and then He’s going to give me a new name. I’m real glad about that because after 38 years I’ve done lots of stuff that has harmed my name and reputation. If you died in rubble and had your body dumped in a pit, I’m thinking a new name is a great place to start leaving that behind.
U2 released a song about a place where the streets have no name. I’m not sure if the streets in Heaven have names, but I know that everyone of the children in Haiti that died, everyone of our brothers and sisters in Christ that lost their lives, they have new names, names that are recorded on a white stone, names that signal the hurt and the pain is gone.
Their pain IS known. Every last single one of them.
Please continue to pray for and support the work going on in Haiti. There are still those on this side whose suffering continues. We’re committed to this for the long haul and need your help. www.conduitmission.org
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January 28 Update From Jacmel Haiti
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An update from our friend Pastor Gerald Lafleur or Restoration Ministries in Jacmel Haiti
Hello Friends!
This morning I had a great interview on Observer Radio with Zidor Fednel, the Government Delegate for the South East Department with Jacmel as the major city. He told us that they are very much in need of tents to house some of the people, he hopes that the different people collecting millions on behalf of Haiti will be willing to use the money to help the people in their rebuilding effort; according to him 50 percent of government buildings are down, the Catholic church in Jacmel is over 200 yrs old but now it cannot be used due to the extent of the damage…
Fedony also shared some light on the same program about the situation on the ground in Jacmel in terms of the distribution of relief supplies etc.
David Whetstone is still in Haiti with them as they continue to assess the needs on there so that they can see how to properly assist the people, they visited several churches, orphanages, they have a special meeting sets for tomorrow with some pastors and leaders to develop a network to affect the people body, soul and spirit…
They are expecting some more food into Jacmel from DR. We pray for favor.
Please pray for me as I am putting things in place to go to Haiti on Wednesday from DR, I need a flight from there, if you wish to sponsor me on that trip feel free to let me know because I need some pocket money and some to leave behind for my family. Elsa and I don’t have a saving because we have been supporting people in Haiti with our money…Anyway God has still been good to us!!!
Hey let your heart guides you as you check www.conduitmission.org
Shalom!
Pastor Jean Lafleur
www.restorehaiti.com
Conduit Has Raised Over $76,000 so far!
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In the past two weeks Conduit Mission has raised over $76,000. This is all thanks to folks who have taken seriously our command of Jesus to love the least of these.
This week we have 42,000 lbs of food as well as water filtration systems arriving in Jacmel Haiti for our friends at Restoration Ministries. The entire process has been one obstacle after the other. But God has had the right people in the right place at the right times to overcome.
One of those is David Whetstone with Mentor Leaders. Please keep him in your prayers. You can learn a bit more about his ministry at www.mentorleaders.org He is a friend of mine who is moving his ministry to the Nashville area specifically to be sent out of Conduit Church. Little did any of us know that he would be sent out before he ever got here. He has been the quarterback this week and is doing a fantastic job.
I want you to know that you’re giving is making a difference.
Please continue to lift up our brothers and sisters in Haiti. They have food, and they have tents, but this isn’t a solution, it’s a band-aid. Please pray for wisdom as we move forward. Please pray for peace for those still in the midst of this intense suffering. And pray for direction on how God might want you to be involved moving forward.
Sincerely,
Darren Tyler
www.conduitmission.org
Isaiah 54: 10 Though the mountains be shaken
and the hills be removed,
yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken
nor my covenant of peace be removed,”
says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
11 “O afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted,
I will build you with stones of turquoise,
your foundations with sapphires.
More Food Shipments Begin
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David Whetstone of Mentor Leaders and Kevin Malone former GM for the Dodgers on the ground in the Dominican. Preparing the shipment of 42,000 lbs of food to Jacmel Haiti. Thanks to our new friends at Score International for making this possible.
More Food On The Way To Jacmel Haiti!
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David Whetstone from Mentor Leaders on the ground in the Dominican Republic working on behalf of Conduit Mission and our brothers and sisters at Restoration Ministries in Jacmel Haiti. 42,000 lbs of food and water filtration systems on the way!
More Food On The Way To Jacmel Haiti
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