A new Ride for a Haitian Pastor…

A great option to encourage and equip a Haitian pastor is to provide a motorcycle for his church. The Haitians pastors are best able to minister to their communities when they are mobile.

In the picture you see, Pastor Guilluame is sitting on his brand new Honda 125 motorcycle. Pastor Guillaume is the pastor in Astruc, the Sister Church to The Orchard EFC in Arlington Heights, IL. Pastor Guillaume will now be able to much more efficiently and quickly visit Cayes for his ongoing Biblical seminary training, visit his people throughout the Astruc community, and visit the multiple other M.E.B.S.H. churches he oversees throughout the Astruc district as M.E.B.S.H. District Pastor.

A motorcycle is a ministry tool that expands the ministry horizons toward more effective ministry and service to the Haitian people.

Astruc Church and School… Dewormed!

Recently, The Orchard EFC paid for and initiated their second annual Deworming Clinic in their partnership community, Astruc, Haiti. RMI Pharmacist Becky Thompson, Nurse Denise Joseph (Benson’s wife), RMI Translator Marie France, and RMI Administrator Benjamin Altema completed this clinic. Every child and adult in the Astruc church and school received deworming meds. The Orchard EFC team will be arriving in Haiti in less than one week to do deworming clinics (among other things), including prevention training, to deworm 2 more communities in their Sister Church Partnership District.

According to Deworm the World, “Over 600 million school-age children are infected with parasitic worms. These infections are chronic and widespread, harming children’s health and development and limiting their participation in school. School-based deworming is universally recognized as a safe, simple and cost-effective solution. The benefits of school-based deworming are both immediate and enduring. Regular treatment can reduce school absenteeism by 25% and increase adult earnings by over 20%, and at a cost of less than 50 US cents per child per year.”

You can see more pictures here.

Suitcases

It seems that a part of a missionary's identity is tied to suitcases. Suitcases mean travel, planes, airports, delays, packing, unpacking, leaving family, seeing old friends and making new ones, meetings, changing climates - the list could go on!

RMI staff have been traveling quite a bit these days.

Dan's suitcases (along with him) went to:

Haiti in September.

Lafayette, LA in October to see Trinity Bible Church as well as another trip to Haiti.

Chicago, IL to visit The Orchard Evangelical Free Church and Village Church of Bartlett. Then to the northeast to speak at Calvary Baptist Church in Pemberton, NJ and to visit with Great Valley Presbyterian in Philadelphia, PA -- all in November. (There was snow!!)

Lakeline and NewChurch Georgetown in Austin, TX will see him in December. Several new churches in that area and the Waco, TX area will be visited as well.

Rob's suitcases (accompanied by him) went to:

Haiti in September.

Chicago, IL to visit The Orchard Evangelical Free Church and his supporters in that area. He took his whole family, so there were quite a number of suitcases.

Billy & Debbie Moses' suitcases, although recently unpacked, went with them to the RMI office for a week in October. They were there for QuickBooks training and administrative meetings.

Pray the RMI staff as they go about the everyday business of operating RMI. Pray for them as they travel, that God will bless their meetings and the contacts they make, that the trips will be successful and profitable.

Report: MEBSH Church at Astruck

September 21^st, 2008

The hurricanes caused a lot damage on the road to Astruck. Praise the Lord we did not have any loss of life but many of the church members lost their gardens and animals. The details are below.

Astruct Baptist church:

· 8 damaged homes

· 23 gardens washed away.

· 5 animals died.

Morisseau Church:

· 3 damaged homes.

· 3 animals died

· 3 gardens washed away.

Moinson Baptist church:

· 4 animals died.

· Many gardens washed away.

· The road from Astruct to Morne Occo has been damaged.

Clery Baptist church:

· 1 home destroyed and 1 damaged.

· 3 animals died.

· The Church members lost all their gardens.

Ravine Sable Baptist church:

· 13 damaged homes.

· 2 animals died.

· 3 gardens washed away.

The main needs we have for the district now are home repairs and food.

Pastor Romelus Guillaume.

Introduction of the new Astruk pastor

From:      MEBSH Church at Astruck, Haiti.                                         September 16, 2008

To:          Arlington Heights E. Free Church, USA

Subject:   Introduction.

I greet you in the name of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. How are you doing? I hope that everything is going well for you.

I am very happy to write you this letter just to congratulate you for the good work you have done through the MEBSH mission in the Sister Church Program.

My name is Pastor Louinel Guillaume, I was born on the July 24^th, 1970. I have been a Pastor for 10 years. I was Pastor of three churches before coming to . I have been here for about a month. I am also a technician in Agriculture and Veterinary medicine.  My wife's name is Jeanine Orgella. She was born on March 9^th, 1970. She loves the Lord and serves Him here at our church as well as in nursing. God has richly blessed my family and has given us 6 children. Two of our children are adopted.

Our children are:

1- Robert Milord Guillaume was born on August 13^th, 1985 and is in the second year of high school.

2- Eveline Guillaume was born on August 13^th, 1995, and is in the third grade in primary school.

3- Anne Beraca Guillaume was born on September 4^th, 2000 and is in the third grade in primary school.

4- Louis Orphe Guillaume was born on March 14^th, 2002 and is in the first grade in primary school.

5- Louimene Noa Guillaume was born on September 4^th, 2004 and is the second year of kindergarten.

6- Christella Guillaume was born on June 26^th, 2008.

Again, I am very happy that God entrusted me to be the pastor of the MEBSH Church at Astruk because I see that they are very good people there and they have worked well in partnership with you in Arlington Heights. I am looking forward to working with you as my sister church as we seek more people for Jesus.

Pastor Louinel Guillaume