January 2010
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Update on our Haiti Teams 1/30
Most of our second team is now back in the US, with the exception of one team member continuing to minister in Jacmel. More information about next steps to follow later this weekend. In the meantime, check out a story about our first team at http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1953379_1953494_1957869,00.html
Local Media On CCOB In Haiti - 1/29
One of our local NJ newspapers picked up the story about CCOB’s ministry in Haiti:
http://mycentraljersey.com/faith
BridgeFM Interview: CCOB Advance Team Haiti
Members of our initial recon team to Haiti were interviewed on BridgeFM earlier this week. You can check out the interview entitled “HAITI - Hope Rising from the Rubble!” in its entirety at: http://www.bridgefm.org/eventsinterviews.asp
Haiti Relief Update - 1/29 11:30am
One of our teams is partnering with pastors and servants from CC Delta (PA). Here’s a report that CC Delta forwarded yesterday (names edited for security reasons):
I spoke with our pastor this afternoon from Port-au-Prince. They ended up spending the night at the tent city established by Calvary Chapel Port-au-Prince, since it got dark before they could find the other place. He said it...
From The Mission Field - Haiti 1/28
From one of our team members returning from Haiti today — sent night of 1/27/10:
Just wanted to thank everyone who has been praying for the ministry here — we have felt your prayers. God has opened many amazing and effective doors for the gospel. What a blessing to have been a small part of what He is doing in Haiti this week, and also to see the body of Christ working together in...
Haiti Relief Update 1/27 4:54 pm
Thanks for your continued prayers on behalf of the people of Haiti as well as those ministering throughout the island….
As the waves of refugees have, for the moment, subsided in Jimani, the team originally assigned to minister there has ventured into PaP and connected with CC Port-au-Prince.
The pastor there expressed the same thing we are hearing from many sources at this point: with...
From The Mission Field - Haiti 1/27 3:13pm
From one of our team members in Haiti:
Bonjour, everyone miss you sooo much. The Lord has blessed me with staying at a Christian couple’s house here in Jacmel Haiti for the next week or so…. Today we helped out at the hospital where the meds from Calvary Chapel were sent, and it’s packed with people. Praise God a doctor came in from Wall Township with the new CCOB team and was a help to...
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Haiti Relief Update - 1/26 10:11 am
Our teams in Haiti / DR have been blessed to use a ministry home operated by CC Delta (PA) as their basecamp for the past two weeks. On Monday they were joined by the pastor of CC Delta, which sent us the following report:
[Please note, for security reasons we are not currently posting names or specific details regarding location on the blog at this time….]
This morning they left at 6 am...
Haiti Relief Update 1/25 4:19 pm
Another “God story” from our Haiti team:
Four team members were in Jacmel, and connected with a pilot who had flown in from Miami. He was taking them back and forth to the DR for urgently needed medical supplies (morphine and bone saws). On the last night before they had to return, the pilot was going to take one of our team back to the group in the DR (by air) and the rest of the...
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Haiti Relief Update - 1/25 1:24 pm
The majority of our first team is safely back in the US, with two members staying behind to help facilitate transition to newcomers from various CC’s that arrived over the weekend.
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN JIMANI: Team members went to the hospitals yesterday and found things surprisingly calm and stable. This may or may not mean ministry will be slowing down there — our team saw a...
Haiti Relief Update - 1/23 9:27pm
TheCA team have landed safely and cleared customs in Santo Domingo. They are currently debriefing with two of our elders who have been in country for the past week. Tomorrow they’ll go by small plane to Jacmel and link up with our other team member on the ground and begin assessing the feasibility of a long-term Bay St. Louis scenario.
Please pray for their continued travel mercy, a...
Haiti Relief Update - 1/23 12:49 pm
Greetings from Calvary Chapel Old Bridge!
Today is a transition day, with most of our team heading to Santo Domingo tonight for an early flight out tomorrow. Meanwhile the NJ team is already in the air headed down. Praise God for eight extra duffel bags of medical supplies that made it onto the airplane with minimal additional cost. When they arrive they’ll head to our basecamp and...
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Haiti Relief Update - 1/22 10PM
Greetings from Calvary Old Bridge!
Things are beginning to pick up momentum….
JACMEL:
Much as He did after Katrina, the Lord seems to be bringing a number of CC’s together to focus on ministry in a specific area — in this case Jacmel.
As our recon team prepares to return to the US this weekend we are planning to insert a combined CCOB / CC Costa Mesa / Cornerstone CC /...
Haiti Relief Update: 1/22/10 12:22
This morning’s USA Today has an article about Jimani. The hospitals described are where one of our teams are ministering.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-01-21-Haiti-Dominican_N.htm
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Haiti Relief Effort - Update 1/21 10:30 PM
The situation in Haiti continues to develop day-to-day, even hour to hour. Among the reports coming in from our team this evening:
* Aid is beginning to reach areas like Jacmel that were not receiving assistance early this week. However, there are widespread reports (and firsthand observations by our team) that much of the food and medicine being trucked in is being “diverted” and...
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Haiti Relief Effort - Update 1/21 3:30 PM
God continues to use the team in Haiti/DR to accomplish great things! Below is the most recent update from one of our team members giving an account of God using them to provide for injured Haitians that are in need of emergency surgery. For the past 20 hours the team has been attempting to procure medical and surgical supplies as well as surgical narcotics but have met much difficulty.
Below is...
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Urgent Prayer Request - Haiti
Please send out a prayer request. Our team is literally on knees praying as the doctors in jacmel have the patients lined up but can’t do procedures until the plane arrives back with saws and narcotics.
Many of these patients to not have another day to wait before they die or be amputated without narcotics or the proper equipment. We are on our way to a hospital to plead for something at...
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Haiti Relief Effort - Urgent Needs
I spoke with the Haiti team this AM… There is an urgent need for the following items in Haiti. Docs they encounter throughout the country say there aren’t any of these things left on the island and so far they aren’t arriving in aid shipments: Bone plates, esp for youth Bone saws Ortho drills and screws and pins External fixtures Intramedulla rods Topical lidocaine BET gel...
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Haiti Relief Effort - Update 1/20 11:11 PM
Below is a portion of an update that one of our team leaders sent to his family over text message.
I’m still in Jacmel. Lived through my first earthquake. A 6.1. You definitely feel the earth move when it strikes. It lasted what seemed to be about 5 seconds, but they said it lasted about 10—thus making it another quake, and not a tremor.
We spent the day around the airport as relief...
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Haiti Relief Effort - Update 1/20 5:06 PM
As you most likely heard on the news, the country of Haiti was struck with another earthquake early this morning. The quake measured 6.0 on the Richter scale. Everyone on our team has reported they are safe with no injuries.
Today, part of the team ministering had flown back to the capital city of the DR to get more medical supplies. Please keep this in prayer as the pilot is ill and needed...
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Haiti Relief Effort - Additional Teams News
CCOB will be sending additional personnel to minister in Haiti this week. Donations of surgical gloves & masks, alcohol swabs, oral & topical antibiotics, ibuprofen and/or Tylenol, and gauze bandages are all welcome.
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Haiti Relief Effort - Update 1/20 7:30 AM
Just heard from the CCOB team…a 6.0 aftershock hit this AM but structural damage was minimal where they are ministering and the team is fine. Ministry continuing and all appreciate your prayers!
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Haiti Relief Effort - Update 1/20 12:24AM
Today team one made their way to a refuge hospital on the Haiti/DR border in the town of Jimani. From the accounts I received the ministry was very good but there remains much more need than there is ability to meet it. There remains only 1 surgeon to treat 200-300 patients and while the physician is overwhelmed, he is incredibly grateful we are there and has given us a full green light to...
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Haiti Relief Effort - Update 1/19
Today the team is splitting into 2 groups, one travelling into Haiti while the other one pursues amazing ministry near the Haiti/DR border.
One team is aboard a naval ship of the Dominican Republic with a tremendous amount medical supplies. It is expected to be a 5 1/2 hour boat ride to the city of Jacmel. Once there, they hope to form a relationship with the mayor thru an already...
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Haiti Relief Effort - Update from Team Leader...
This update comes directly from team leader Lonnie Vargas detailing God’s incredible provision during the day!
Four members of the team drove 2.5 hours from Barahona to Pedernales. We brought with us a lot of the medical supplies that the people in Jacmel, Haiti are so desperate for. Pedernales is where we hoped to be able to rent a boat to take us to Jacmel.
When we got there there...
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Guidance for Relief Workers and Others Traveling...
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has released some recommendations for anyone considering going to Haiti to assist with the relief effort. If anyone one is praying about going, I recommend that you read through this report carefully.
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/content/news-announcements/relief-workers-haiti.aspx
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Haiti Update Monday Jan 18th
Continue to pray for our Haiti team of 12.
The Lord has opened up some wonderful doors where none existed.
They are nightly staying in DR for security and have hooked up with a missionary connected with Pastor from Miami area.
Yesterday they delivered much needed medical supplies to a makeshift medical clinic at an orphanage where a number of doctors and nurses were ministering to a line of...
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Haiti Relief Effort - Update 1/18
The teams are prepared for promising ministry today as the Lord has opened some amazing doors!
One team will in fact be making their way by boat to the large city along the Southern coast. The Lord opened an amazing door as when they returned to the port this morning, they met someone that was already planning to make a trip to that very city himself! This team will be looking to make more...
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Haiti Relief Effort - Update 1/17
The team is back at base camp in the Domincan Republic and all are safe. Today the team split into 3 different groups to maximize their ability to investigate opportunites for ministry.
One team headed to the border of Haiti and reached 30 miles from the capital. It was a fruitful trip as they were able to not only get into Haiti, but also connect with another ministry already serving in the...
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Haiti Relief Effort - Update
We’re happy to report that our Haiti Relief team is in the air and on their way to Santo Domingo, DR! Moving forward, we will be updating our Haiti webpage (ccob.org/haitirelief), rather than sending email updates.
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Haiti Relief Effort
We’re excited to report that the Lord has opened amazing doors for a team from Calvary Chapel Old Bridge to assist the people in Haiti! Our team is flying to the Dominican Republic this Saturday (January 16th) and is planning to drive into Haiti to serve the victims of Tuesday’s earthquake. We have been in contact with people from the Dominican Republic and Haiti who are reporting...