Chez Russ
5841 Ferree St.
Pittsburgh PA 15217

Saturday, May 7, 2011 at 6 pm

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Enjoy.
All proceeds will help Haiti.

June 25-July 2, 2011

FLM-Haiti Summer medical and educational mission to Haiti. Apply now for the experience of a lifetime. Contact us for more information.

Saturday August 27, 2011 at 11:30 AM
A special fundraising event to benefit FLM of Haiti
At the home of Donald Kortlandt & Anna P. Singer
115 Grandview Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15211 (Mt. Washington)
Featuring Some of Pittsburgh’s Finest Musicians and Singers.

• Listen to talented musical guest
• Savor local and Haitian food
• Enjoy making new friends
• Experience scenes of hope as we help rebuild Haiti

For more information and your special invitation call 412/471-4332
or email: rbynum2124@earthlink.net
Sponsored by: Bynums Marketing & Communications, Inc.

Dearly beloved friends:

It was about 3:00 this morning when I woke up with a really heavy heart. It was as if the horrible pictures I have been watching these last two days were playing over and over before my eyes. I became so overwhelmed with the incredible loss of lives and the graphic physical and emotional suffering of the people of Haiti.

Let me take this opportunity to thank you for your calls and emails expressing your eager desire to help. You confirm for me the words of Marcus Aurelius, that “human beings were made to help others.”

We have all been waiting anxiously to hear how our clinic and school, and their staffs, have fared. Some of our children live in the heart of the worst damage. We are worrying, we are crying, we are praying. Yet we know that God is able to use us to reach out to those who are suffering.

Twenty six people were planning to travel to Haiti on January 23 as part of an FLM group. Now, because of the devastation, we have temporarily postponed our trip. We are closely monitoring the situation and will travel there as soon as the logistics and the team’s personal safety can be assured. We seek your help to provide relief and recovery for the communities we serve. They need us now more than ever.

You can make a credit card donation at PayPal.com by clicking the link below:
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You may also make a donation by check mailed to:

FLM/Haiti
1064 Premier Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15201

Make Check payable to “FLM/Haiti”

All donations are tax deductible.

May the Lord richly bless you in every way for your love and kindness.

Excelsior/ Ever Upward,

Leon Pamphile

If you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like noonday.
The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and strengthen your frame. You will be like a spring whose waters never fall.
(Isaiah 58:10-11)

This year, FLM-HAITI celebrates 25 years of service in Health and Education to the Haitian people. We are thankful to God for his faithfulness and to all our friends in Pittsburgh and throughout the nation who have consistently supported the effort of the ministry over the years.

FLM-HAITI is thriving. This is the clear result of what can happen when one DARES TO DREAM. With God’s unchanging help and your ongoing support, FLM-HAITI will continue to provide its much needed service to the Haitian people.

Latest News: After the Earthquake

Personal News:

FLM’s board members have been receiving numerous calls and emails, asking about the state of our work in Haiti. We are pleased to let you know that our school and clinic are intact. We have not yet gotten a full report on the state of our teachers. We do know the following:

• Thomassin does not seem to have experienced significant damage. Boutiliers, however, where we operate mobile medical clinics, was harder hit. Our treasurer in Haiti, Rev. Bossière Jérome, was conducting a Bible study in his church when he was called outside for a moment. And in that moment, the church collapsed, killing four of the people he had just been with.
• Jean Bernard Santimé, our school principal and overseer of all our work in Haiti, was leaving Port-au-Prince when the earthquake struck. He had just purchased a pump and water tank for the clinic and loaded it onto a truck driven by his brother Lionel. Jean Bernard was forced to stop when the traffic light turned red–and all the cars that had made it through the light were crushed by a falling building. The supplies in the back of Lionel’s truck were destroyed, but Lionel was able to escape.
• The clinic administrator, doctor, and nurse are all well and have been assisting in treating the wounded in Petion-Ville. Petion-Ville was severely damaged. The hotel where our teams stay when they go down, the Villa Therèse, was destroyed.

Earthquake Relief and Recovery:

• We had 26 people ready to go to Haiti on January 23rd for our regular semi-annual trip. At this time the team is sitting tight, waiting for word that we can get a flight, get safely up to our site, and find shelter, food, and water when we get there. Meanwhile, the first member of our team, Dr. Bill Markle, will be on his way shortly, traveling under the auspices of the American Refugee Committee. He will be carrying medicines and medical supplies and have access to funds provided by us. His work with the ARC, as well as other partnerships currently under development, will give us avenues for getting supplies and money into our communities.
• We are working out details to work with some of the larger aid organizations, combining their capabilities on a large scale with our intimate, long-standing knowledge of our communities of Thomassin, La Boule, Boutiliers, and Kenscoff. Over the coming weeks our volunteers will be involved in relief and recovery efforts. We expect that the financial cost of everything we hope to do will be extremely high, given the widespread devastation.

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