Shepherds' Fellowship

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Thanks Shaun:

http://www.gracechurch.org/support/

http://www.chfus.org/en/component/donation/

Baptist Haiti Mission also seems to have a well established and far reaching relationship within Haiti and in many of the normally unreached areas:
http://www.bhm.org/bhm/lang-en/component/content/article/37/183.html

They are also personally vouchsafed by Pastor Phil Johnson of Grace Community Church, The GraceLife Pulpit, Grace to You and Fellowship of Independant Reformed Evangelicals.
http://teampyro.blogspot.com/2010/01/haiti-update.html

FIRE have people on the ground already and have been reporting directly to Individuals and Churches:
http://firefellowship.org/about.shtml

In addition to Pastor Johnson, they are also accredited by The London Metropolitan Tabernacle (Spurgeon's) in the United Kingdom, who are themselves also supporting Direct local Compassionate Care.
http://www.metropolitantabernacle.org/

IF you would like more information please feel free to send and e-mail to gospelofgrace@btinternet.com; we are prayerfully committing to Newtwoking Individuals and Churches of likemind in an effort to minimise overhead and administration costs.

We are also aware that one of the greatest needs is for able bodied men and women who are called of the Spirit to serve on the ground. The Television News reports are said to not even be able to speak to 20% of the real needs and barriers that need to be overcome, as quakes have continued to occur in the region.

Your fellow bondslave with the Gospel of the merciful restraining and enabling grace of our Sovereign LORD Alone,
W

I received an update over the weekend from a missionary family we know in Haiti. The wife is a doctor who is currently working down in Port-au-Prince with the relief efforts. In addition to the need for food and water, there is a serious need for surgical aid:

"NEED SURGERY,surgeons, othoped, supplies or tens of thousands will die. Kris"

Thousands of people with broken or smashed limbs face certain death if they do not receive amputations or major medical intervention due to infections as a result of their injuries. The death toll from this could be worse than even the initial collapse of the buildings. Pray for these people, and if you have any way to help get more surgeons to Haiti, please help to see this happen.

Brethren it is also worth noting that with sanitation, the lack of fresh water supplies (Usually following any major disaster); there will be serious and lethal diseases breeding and spreading - especially with open wounds, many decaying bodies and orphaned children, the elderly etc, who simply cannot provide for themselves or remove themselves from the worst affected areas.

As an ex-Navy serviceman, I am truly praying for Large Scale Naval deployments to Haiti.
Landing Platform Decks (Amphibious landing ships and Helicopters) and Aircraft Carriers are ideal in this situation; and Hospital Ships could also be critical for many.

Oh, LORD we pray that You will turn the hearts of people to compassion for the weak, vulnerable, poor and needy, destitute, fatherless and widowed. May we be vessels of mercy in the temporal, but all the more in the eternal - armed with love and the Gospel of Peace with our Almighty Fear of Isaac with us.

The greatest needs at this time seem to be for Medical personnel, and Logistics personell; military personnel are the best prepared for these things - although nothing but bitter painful experience of these disasters can prepare you.

I believe there will not be sufficient Medical personell available for this amount of need; but we must give our all for these people - who could easily be us next time around.

May the sure mercies of David be experienced amidts the pain, suffering and trials of many this day.

It would be instructive for the Church to study the book of Joel as we see the manner in which a true prophet of God dealt with a people who had experienced great calamity. John Calvin's commentary would be beneficial. It is important also to recognize that the Hebrew word for evil (man's wickedness) and calamity (God's response) is one and the same. Last year at the Shepherds Conference we were given a book "Pastoral Ministry". In chapter 20 (Watching and Warning) one of the authors gives two accounts of how the early Church dealt with heretical men (giving examples of heretical men in the process). One was the apostle John and his dealing with a certain Cerinthus and the other was Polycarp's (a disciple of the apostle John) response to Marcion's plea/demand (?) to be acknowledged. His response? "I acknowledge the first born of Satan." Upon further investigation I discovered their heresy was that among other things, they taught that the creator God, whom they recognized as a just God (i.e. He judged sin) was not the father of Jesus and the true father of Jesus was a "good" God. I see frightening similarities today. There are those who, either by words (The God of the old testament etc.) or by actions seem to hold similar views. His Unworthy Slave, Douglas Grogg