Dear Pastor, Church, Friends and Family
Churches Response
As many of you have probably already heard, on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 a massive Earthquake occurred in Haiti. Their capital, Port-au-Prince has been destroyed with hospitals, homes and major buildings collapsing. Many have no where to go and nothing to survive with. We are just a few hundred miles from the disaster here in the Dominican Republic and although our church in Tamboril is in its infancy, along with our Haitian mission in Don Pedro we have decided to begin assembling survival buckets today by simply filling them with a list of everyday items that can be purchased here and used to fill immediate needs - food, soap, medicine, duct tape, and other emergency relief items. Obviously these buckets will do more than just take care of physical needs, we also want to let these families know they have not been forgotten and will be placing special tracts in Creol inside so they can discover the eternal hope of Jesus' love. Any donations that are processed into our account in the missions office - www.bbfimissions.com marked "Haitian Relief" will be used for this project and to meet the needs of the churches that BBFI Missionary Wesley Lane - www.bbfi-northamerica.org/Lane - has established and can contact in the Port-au-Prince area.
Missionary Plan
Yesterday we spoke to Wesley Lane extensively and the best plan at this time is for Wes and Melina to try and cross the border via bus, make contact with the national pastors and churches they have there and and locate key missionaries and relief organizations on the ground to access the situation. Once a staging area can be located and secured Wesley will return and we will all go in with equipment and supplies that are needed and can be found here in the Dominican Republic. We need to pray that they will get through, make contact and return safely and as quickly as possible. Many of you know that we work with Agape Missionary Flights and Missionary Flights International. It is our understanding that both will be staging relief efforts from Florida directly to Haiti making multiple flights every week. With the amount of missionaries they serve it might take a little longer for things to get to us but we already know that this is going to be a Marathon rather than a Sprint. Anything you physically have and are led to give can be sent to our respective accounts:
BBFI Missionary Tom and Regina Franklin
Agape Missionary Flights - SGO 18867
100 Airport Ave.
Venice, FLorida 34285
BBFI Missionary Wesley and Melina Lane
MFI - Unit 3031 - BBFDR
3170 Airmans Drive
Fort Pierce, Florida 34946
Lord Bless and Please Pray,
Tom and Regina Franklin
P.S. Our church in Tamboril and mission in Don Pedro will be releasing a detail prayer list shortly via Blog (www.dr4christ.blogspot.com) and Facebook (Tom Franklin) of the names of friends and family members that still have not been located in Haiti.
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Just to let you know that West Side Baptist Church in San Angelo are praying for you and we will take up a special offering and will keep you informed.
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