Truth Evangelistic Ministry, Inc.

Unless otherwise specified, all reports are from Brother Chuck

I’m back in Haiti, and it is as if I never left–I’m right at home. Nothing has changed much here, except for the miracle of a new well. This morning Chuck G., Simon and I went into Port au Prince to meet Ginette to buy food for the team that will be coming in Monday for the Pastors’ Conference. (This team consists of Pastor Sean McMahon, Pastor Mark Mercer, Lane Thompson, Will Tiller, and me. Karl Leiber will be coming in the latter part of the week.) We met Ginette at One Stop Market in Port and purchased all the groceries, and I exchanged U.S. currency for gourds (Haitian currency). Afterward we headed back up to Z’Orange and unpacked, and made us a few sandwiches for lunch and left to go back to the Port. This time we needed ice and water. We have 5-gallon Culligan containers that we exchange, and we buy our ice at the ice house. It is absolutely amazing that we can now make two trips to Port and get back by 4:00 in the afternoon. Before the new road (which is in pretty bad shape now) and naturally the new Ford, we would be lucky to go to Port and get back before dark in one trip.

When we returned the people were anxiously awaiting Chuck G. to pull the generator out to start pumping water. He didn’t even get close to the pump with the generator and people were running home to get their buckets. It is a wonderful feeling to see the joy on peoples’ faces as the water flows into their buckets or gallon jugs. When Chuck G. first started the water distribution, he got a taste of Haitian chaos as people broke in line and put their buckets first, but Chuck would cut the water off or make them go to the back of the line. Now he has almost (you noticed almost) perfected the distribution. He now makes them line the buckets up, and he goes down the line filling the buckets. I can tell you that you cannot put a hair in between the buckets. Today he had one boy that brought his bucket right up to the front, and Chuck G. took it to the back of the line. The boy was upset, but he stayed in line until he got tired of waiting, and he moved his bucket up 4 or 5 buckets, and Chuck G. saw him. Chuck G took his bucket and put it all the way in the back again. The boy wanted to go back to his original place in line, and Chuck said NO–all the people laughed, except the boy. But when it was all over, the boy was fine. I told Chuck this is the only way we can teach discipline and order. Chuck G pumped over 1000 gallons of water for the community today.  Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Chuck G. is so well known now in Z’Orange now that I don’t know if they’re asking for me or him, unless they say Chuck de (two) which is Chuck G.

Tonight Chuck G. is showing one of the Jesus films. That is just one of his ministries–he is multi-talented–you have to be if you work in Haiti.

Tomorrow we will have Easter service, as I am sure you all will. Happy Easter from TEM from Haiti. We could not be here without your support. God bless!

Unless otherwise specified, all reports are from Brother Chuck

From Pastor Dorleon :

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ:

In the name of Jesus Christ I greet all of you.

I want to thank God for the great privilege he gives to us to work together as one body with Truth Evangelistic Ministry. I thank God for giving us a good well, and I thank God for using you to provide this well for us in Z’Orange. I can tell you it is with joy and a happy heart I write you just to thank you, and all the church members and people in the community of Z’Orange can’t say thank God and you enough. We had the first well, and now we have another one–God’s grace. Thank you, thank you so much to everyone from the Truth Evangelistic Ministry who worked together for the realization of this well. May God bless all of you and keep all of you in perfect health.

Pastor Do, his wife, and his son Julio

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Report By Chuck Guerber

Saturday was the first day that we ran the well for everyone. What started out as a few people quickly turned into many. I was trying to keep a rough track of how much water we pumped–my best estimate is between 800 and 1000 gallons. That’s a lot of buckets full! We didn’t stop until everyone who wanted water got it. The only water nearby before this was the water in the cistern, you’ll see the photo. People were using it for cooking, and for cleaning and laundry–I even saw a couple of people drink from it. Yes, those are tadpoles swimming in it . . .

Early on a few of the boys wanted to handle the hose. It soon turned into a little water fight between them, and it sort of turned into a bath for a bunch of them! I spend early evenings with these kids, either working on their English and my Creole, or working on bikes. Believe me, these kids needed a bath–there has been no water in the rivers or streams where they would normally bathe. The evening rains have helped a little, but we haven’t had anything substantial yet.

Earlier in the day I took a walk around the village. A family that I had stopped and played guitar for last January recognized me, and asked where my guitar was. I had left it back at the mission house, but they pulled one out for me to play! It’s my understanding that it belongs to their church. It was really in rough shape, but I attempted to play a while on it.

I later ran across what I think were red-colored pigeons. I had never seen them before, and I’m not really into birds yet. They were really pretty flying, though.

In church today one of the school teachers sat beside me. At one point in the service he told me that the entire congregation was giving thanks to God for the new well and fresh water. The Glory goes to God!

Unless otherwise specified, all reports are from Brother Chuck

Report from Chuck Guerber

David and his workers came up about 2 p.m., and it started raining about 2:30. It was a sloppy mess, as you can imagine. They got the pump all set up, and we hooked up the garden hose we had. The hose reaches from the well to the cistern in front of the school. As you know, nothing comes easy, but eventually there was success. The photo shows how it is set up. David put a hose connection and also left a run for underground piping to our cistern. He also left 185 feet of 1″ tubing for us. I’ll have to measure tomorrow, but David thought it would be enough to get to our cistern.

I let the hose run and filled up the church cistern for the local people. I also had our cistern filled. The new well and pump can pump a lot of water quickly! I had boys carrying buckets to our 55-gallon drum, and I was able to leave our sump pump running in the drum. The well easily stayed ahead of the sump pump.

David says that we should have water for the rest of our lives now. Thanks be to God!

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Report from Chuck Martindale

TEM has been blessed to be able to buy Simon a much-needed motorcycle. Simon has been getting rides on motorcycles and tap-taps (Haitian taxis) for years, serving the ministry back and forth from Port au Prince to Z’Orange. He wants to say thank you to everyone who supports TEM!

Unless otherwise specified, all reports are from Brother Chuck

Report from Chuck Guerber

Yesterday, Chris and four Haitian workers came to finish up the well. When they were getting close to being finished, Pastor Do told us that his wife was making a meal for all of us. So at around 1:30, we sat down in the mission house to another great meal. Rice and beans along with some cooked vegetables, topped off with Pringles and Cokes.

Today was a more relaxing day. This morning I took a 2-hour walk in the village, stopping and trying to speak with the locals. Mid-days and afternoons are becoming very warm. Actually, they’re hot! But I was able to clean out Gabriel (the army truck), disconnect the batteries, and change the padlocks on the different compartments. I had to change the padlocks because someone (that would be me) left all the keys on the fuel tank when they filled it up. Needless to say, the keys had a lot of opportunities to bounce off the truck coming up the mountain on the way back from Port. I then straightened up the mission house and put trunks up in the storage area. Late afternoon was spent sitting outside with the kids.

My desire to show the ‘Jesus film’ in the evenings has been consistently interrupted by rains. Praise the Lord, because they really need the rain. People won’t come out when it’s raining, which is understandable. Showing the movies in the evening was my plan, God’s plan is always better!

People from the church here have been so kind. I have had four different families bring me fruit. They have brought mangoes, bananas, lemons, and something that I have no clue what it is! Simon, our interpreter, will be up tomorrow. I’ll pass it by him.

I thank the Lord for another beautiful day in Haiti!