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Michel & Louise
Charbonneau
C/O Agape Flights
7990 15th St E Sarasota Fl 34243
Port-au-Prince, June,
1999
Dear friends,
Greetings under the hot
sun in Haiti! We hope this letter finds you encouraged
with the things God is doing in your lives and around the
world. We want to thank you for your prayers and your
financial support. Without your participation, we would
not be able to work here.
We are presently working on a 250 place extension to our
chapel’s floor. We’ll be able to sit 650 people
in our yard. We hope to be able to get our visa soon to
be able to buy land and start to build a church. The
money for the land is there, but not the visa.
This morning, I remembered a very familiar verse :
“For I was hungry, and you gave me something to
eat…” Mat 25,35. Don Raymer, our Regional
Director and ERDO Director, and David Wells, who is
responsible for Church Ministries and for many other
things, came to visit us in the month of May. ERDO has
nearly tripled our budget to feed the children and the
young people we work with. The Canadian Foodgrains Bank
plans to send a container of food to Haiti every three
months. It will give us the possibility to feed one
hundred families every day.
“…I was sick and you looked after
me…” Mat 25, 36. In only one Sunday morning,
Cathy Anderson, an American nurse who works with us, took
care of 40 patients. This verse has a special meaning for
us. Naomi, our daughter, has been sick now for two and a
half years. We feel sad to not be able to really look
after her. Recently, Naomi had an appointment with one of
our Christian friends who is a medical doctor and a
College teacher at McGill University in Montreal. She was
diagnosed with chronic malaria and not fibromyalgia. She
is now under treatment and hopefully, she will get rid of
it. Two years ago, when she was interned in the hospital,
although she told her doctors it was malaria, they
refused to give her the treatment. So she has been
struggling with the sickness all this time and she could
have died of it, if it has not been for Dr. Paul Saba,
our friend.
Our son, Pierre (18), graduated on June 5th. He’s an
“A” student and he received three awards for
his good grades. He applied for the Quebec Bible College
by extension. He works with us as a Volunteer in Mission
(VIM) this year at structuring Child Care Plus in Haiti
and as the worship leader in our assembly.
PLEASE PRAY FOR:
Our visas.
One or two other volunteers in Missions for this year.
Naomi’s complete healing.
Michel & Louise
Charbonneau
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