In His Hands- HCRM Ministries' News!

Welcome to the new blog for HCRM Ministries' news, updates, announcements, and service opportunity posts! We are currently serving the HCRM orphanage of Peitionville, Haiti, by serving as liaisons with stateside churches, and volunteer groups, to raise money for their immediate needs, as well as the growth of their longterm needs (ie. dormitories, safety, education, and other construction projects). If you would like to find out more about how you can help, visit: www.hcrmministries.org!

Prayer List!!

For the Children who are available for adoption and desperately long for a forever family...

For the Children of the families who are in the adoption process

That He will supply the funds needed for general needs to purchase food, water, fuel and rent

For prospective adoptive parents and their families traveling to and from Haiti

That HCRM will continue to have clean running water

For the medical needs of the children

For the nannies who take care of the children

For Pastor Fritz and Madame Nicolas, directors of HCRM as well as husband and wife

For the new construction project with Engineer Ministry International (eMI)

For fundraising for construction costs and searches for volunteer labor

For a dump truck to save on delivery fees of construction materials

For volunteers to go and build the boundary wall around the building site for the new orphanage

For Dr. Leininger, who works tirelessly to help HCRM and the children

For Angel Staffing of SA, and the nurses who help at HCRM

For BCFS of SA, who volunteer psychological counseling

For Tracy Herrera, missionary to HCRM

For everyone's safety and health in Haiti

For the people of Haiti

There is a Haitian prayer that says, "Senye, Ala nou kontan se pa nou k'ap kenbe ou men se ou k'ap kenbe nou."... Lord, how glad we are that we don't hold you, but that you hold us. God bless these people and all involved in trying to help them.

Haiti's Children...

January 12th, 2010 at 4:53p.m. the ground in Port-au-Prince, Haiti began to shake. Up in the hills at the HCRM orphanage, just a few hours earlier, Pastor Fritz was planning to go out for the day to visit some of the members of his church and community. His wife told him not to go... she had felt something... a tremble. Thinking it to be nothing, Pastor did not falter in his plan to go to town, trying to comfort his wife as best he could. It was just a few minutes before his departure that he felt it... the tremble. "It sounded like a truck starting in the street below... but then we felt the shake." Looking out over the balcony, down into the city below he says, "I could see this cloud of dust rise from the city." This cloud of dust was the result of Port-au-Prince coming to its knees. Two hundred and forty-five thousand structures ruined... two hundred and thirty thousand dead... one point five million left homeless and alone. What occurred in only a matter of minutes will take decades to rebuild.

Among the one point five million displaced, more than two hundred thousand are just children. HCRM worked frantically after the earthquake to offer a safe haven to the displaced children of the Port-au-Prince area. They even took in some young, pregnant women. One of those women gave birth to her son only a day after the quake had struck. They found a twelve year old boy wondering through the streets, his left arm gone. What had happened to his family? All were killed during the earthquake. How did he live? By the grace of God and the love and sacrifice of his mother. When the quake struck, the boy's mother pulled him under her body, shielding the collapsing building with her body and dying so her son might live. He is now the picture of health, having been tended to by a medical team that came to help, and enjoys playing basketball and shooting marbles with the other boys.

Despite these stories, the earthquake and its death toll is not all that HCRM fights... slavery has become a prominent antagonist as well. Children are taken from the streets, with no where else to go, and brought into households to become slaves. They're beaten, starved, abused and treated more like a dog than a child. Many children are even taken in by their own family members, only to become his or her family's slave. They are given no respect, becoming more of an 'it' than a human being. Children that escape slavery can come to the orphanage for protection, love, nourishment and hope. Many find Christ for the first time, and grow to love Him as they spend time with studies, peers and volunteers. To see their scars, both physical and mental, slowly began to heal with His love and presence is a beautiful sight to behold. What a miracle He has worked in their lives, and by helping HCRM build a larger, safer orphanage, so many more will have that opportunity.

In His Hands- HCRM Ministries' News!

HCRM Orphange

Thursday, January 12, 2012

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