Meet Pastor Juanito Genada, his wife Rose and their little 4 year old daughter, Divine Grace. Pastor Genada lives in Gonaives where he is the pastor of a church as well as running a school for the deaf and taking care of 27 orphans. In the picture below, you can see the inside of his church building. After having four tropical storms/hurricanes pass through Haiti in less than four weeks, the whole city was under water, in some places over 14 feet for two days. After the water receded it left in its wake two to four feet of mud in almost the entire city. The daunting task of digging the mud out of the houses, churches, stores and all buildings will take a long time.

Inside the pastor's church are two hard working members of his congregation spending hours digging the mud and wheeling it out of the church. This picture was taken four weeks after the storms. The street is already covered in two feet of mud and the sides of the street are piled high from all the mud coming out of the buildings. You can see on the back wall just above the rafter how high the water came inside the church. This stayed for two days. An estimated 800 people drowned in Haiti and another 300 are estimated to be missing. Please pray for the families and for these people to somehow get their livelihood back again. Your financial support is welcome to help the pastor rebuild the bakery and the school.


Pictured here is what is left of a building that used to be the bakery. This bakery was run by the deaf students and graduates of the deaf school. Pastor said that these people made the best and the tastiest bread in all of Gonaives. They have lost their entire livelihood as 100,000's others did in Gonaives. They need to build a new building and a new oven. Some of you have asked how you can help. A new building and bakery would go a long way to help feed the hungry in Gonaives.



The tree here is several hundred metres from the orphanage. When the rain covered the roof of the building and all twenty seven of the children climbed up on top of the tiny building on top of the orphanage. There was no where for them to go. Two of the children tried to swim to the pastor's house but ended up clinging to the branches of this tree for two days and two nights. The rest stayed on the roof for two days without food or water. Surely the angels kept watch over them that they too did not drown along with hundreds of others. These 27 orphans are now temporarily staying in Port Au Prince. Sheri Fausy from Christian Light Ministries is having a new school built in Port. The children are staying in the few rooms that are ready. Please pray for these children and all the people displaced by the flooding in Haiti.