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International Child Care Ministries Update

  -March 9th, 2010 @ 12:36 pm

Director Linda Adams frames challenges for children in post-quake . ICCM sponsors over 8,900 children and operates 53 schools in . Relief is the immediate need. Rebuilding is the longer-term challenge. Thanks for your prayers and support both now and in the hopeful days ahead.

For more information about or to sponsor a child please visit ChildCareMinistries.org

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Haiti Relief Funds Update – 19 Feb 2010

  -February 19th, 2010 @ 10:59 am

As of Feb. 12, a total of $840,613 has been given through the Bishops Famine and Relief Fund, Help Heal, Operation Hope and for relief, recovery and development needs.

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The Peru FMC has joined the list of countries responding to the need in .

expressing gratitude for the generosity of God’s people.

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Progress Report From the Field

  -January 29th, 2010 @ 3:25 pm

, Area Director of Latin America, and , Director of Mobilization, report what is happening to the Haitian Free Methodist Church just 10 days after being devastated by the .  Check out what they are doing to help and find out the ways you can help your brothers and sisters in Christ.

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Katie Zook Talks From Hospital Bed

  -January 28th, 2010 @ 7:12 am

from Q13 Fox News, Seattle/Tecoma.

Katie Zook is one of the lucky ones who got out alive after the devastating in . She’s recovering in a Florida hospital and hoping to be back home in Arlington some time soon. It will take time for her body and mind to heal, but her spirit was never broken.

It was a very close call for her. Friends and strangers risked their lives and pulled katie from the wreckage. She was rushed to a hospital at the U.S. embassy in , then to Guantanamo’s medical clinic, then to Florida – all within 2 days.

“Hello? I see you,” says from her hospital bed near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I reached her by Skype. The 22-year-old is recovering and remembering:

“I remember how dark that dark was when I was trapped,” she says looking off into the distance. “I have never been in dark like that before.”

Exactly two weeks ago, Katie was in volunteering as a missionary in Port Au Prince when her world crumbled.

“and there was this loud rumble like a jet headed straight for the building,” she remembers, “and then the building started moving.”

She had no idea of the massive devastation around her. Hurt and frantic, her co-worker Jack got out, but Katie did not.

“…and I could hear Jack screaming and every time there was an aftershock I heard everyone in the streets screaming.”

For hours she was one of many trapped under the rubble, curled up in the fetal position in darkness, but then:

“I had enough room around my right arm to grab the bottle and tap it against the table, so Jack could hear the tapping, but when I yelled he couldn’t hear me yelling so I gave up yelling and I just tapped…” she trails off.

The church’s Haitian driver John heard the tapping too, then started praying and digging.

The whole story is available at Q13 Fox News, Seattle/Tecoma.

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New Haiti Videos

  -January 22nd, 2010 @ 7:47 am

Church

National news coverage has reported what is happening in as a result of the Jan. 12 . On a more personal note, Director of Multimedia has been to to film the impact of this disaster on the Free Methodist Church. The people are hurting. They are suffering. There is action we can take.

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Missionaries

On  Tues., Jan. 12, 2010, the FMC lost three missionaries in the that hit . Jeanne  Acheson- Munos, and were doing what they loved, working alongside their brothers and sisters in . Look at what is happening in and what we can do to help make their vision for a reality – for Christ.

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Merle West and Gene Dufour

  -January 19th, 2010 @ 9:46 am

ABC 12 WJRT
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from Mount Morris and from Clio landed in to work shortly before the quake hit.

Today, their pastor comforted other church members. “Merle was ready to give you the shirt of his back. Gene loved to help,” said Pastor Roger Allen.

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Jeanne Munos

  -January 18th, 2010 @ 11:24 am

Below are some of the news stories produced by local television stations:

Fox 59


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Bishop Roller Delivers Supplies & Meets With Church Leaders in Haiti (Video)

  -January 16th, 2010 @ 9:13 pm

This morning Bishop Roller and others from the relief team traveled to to deliver supplies and meet with church leaders. They met at School 500 where hundred of survivors are huddled in a makeshift relief shelter. For them the trip, meant a lifeline of clean-safe water, food and fuel.

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Rev. Jeanne Acheson-Munos, Merle West, and Gene Defour

  -January 16th, 2010 @ 8:16 pm

With profound sadness, Free Methodist World Missions reports Rev. , , and , the three missionaries who have been unaccounted for, have not been located and are now presumed to not be alive. Today, conducted a funeral service at the site of the building they were in which collapsed when Tuesday’s hit. These three individuals gave their lives in service to the Haitian people whom they loved deeply.

Rev. , and her husband, Jack, were appointed as career missionaries to in March 2004. Together they worked alongside the national church to develop and strengthen the conference, pastors, church leaders and members. Jeanne’s deepest desire was that , the Pearl of the Antilles, would shine again with “ for Christ” becoming a reality.


had been ministering in since 1978. He served as president of FOHO (Friends of Organization) and supervised construction of the new FOHO building. Merle was active in Craftsman for Christ and worked construction in the Miami Haitian churches. He also took three trips to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.


had been on three trips to and one to Africa. Gene, along with Merle, was active in Craftsman for Christ and worked construction in the Miami Haitian churches. Gene and Merle were good friends, enjoying each other’s company and sharing a heart and love for .

Here is a short excerpt from a memorial service remembering those who were lost in the Friends of Organization Building Collapse.

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Haiti Earthquake Video

  -January 16th, 2010 @ 7:46 am

On January 12, a major struck just off the coast of . According to reports, the 7.0 quake has caused major damage in the capital city, .  Thousands have lost their homes, possessions and even their lives.  Bishop Roller address the Free Methodist Church and talks about this tragedy and what we as a church can do to help and what the church as a whole is doing currently to help our brothers and sister in .

The footage in this video was shot by from the field, where refugees are being sheltered at an International Child Care School, where medical supplies, water filtration equipment and other much needed resources are delivered.

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