starvation is to teach people how to fish instead of giving them a fish every day. God’ s people, if we work together, we can do it! In Haiti, just $ 250 per family will help them start a small, sustainable business that will meet their current family needs and provide opportunity for growth.
7. THE LORD’ S KITCHEN: Five day per week feeding program
As nearly 50 % of the country’ s food production was destroyed in the storm, we expect an overflow of people to come to the city. Without any job, home or assistance, their situation looks dire. God’ s people must not close their hearts or their hands! Let us feed them as the Lord provides.
This is just a brief summary of the steps Grace International feels led to take to help our nation. We invite you to join our effort to bless, relieve and restore the people of Haiti.
Prayers and donations are much needed. We are not just an emergency relief organization; we are a longterm mission focused and committed to impacting lives. I thank you very much on behalf of the Haitian people –– and especially the suffering children.
Questions? Please contact Bishop Jeune: 954-394-8929 or Jonny: 305-776-0650. Email: grace @ graceintl. org
To send love gifts to Grace
International, Inc., mail to: Grace International, Inc. 20401 NW 2nd Ave. Miami Gardens, FL 33169
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Everyone loves a great adventure story –– all the more so if it’ s truth not fiction. The spiritual journey of Grace International is replete with the miracles that attended a man born of humble circumstances who, with inspiration from an even more challenged father, found God and allowed his spirit to be transformed by the presence of Christ.
Bishop Joel Jeune’ s destiny was prophesied by God to a father whose own life had been transformed from poverty and violence to salvation and purpose. At two years old, Joel fell ill and died –– only to be resurrected when his father challenged God about the truth of His prophetic promise. Through one trial and tribulation after another, he prevailed in a country bedeviled by Voodoo.
Joel’ s steadfast resistance in the face of obstacles of all magnitudes earned him a following and reputation befitting a man of God. When the battle lines with the devil and his Voodoo converts were drawn at Bois-Caiman, the man of God drew thousands of supporters both in Haiti and around the world. Life threatened, thrown into jail, vexed by Voodoo magic tricks, Joel, now Bishop over a multitude of churches, soldiered on. The Haitian government of that time sent gangs of thugs to disrupt and destroy the anti-Voodoo rally at Bois Caiman. Amazingly God set ablaze the Voodoo Tree, sending its worshippers fearfully fleeing into hiding or a resultant death.
After January 12, 2010, perhaps the greatest challenge faced Bishop Joel and Grace International’ s nearly four decade long ministry. Approximately 25,000 survivors of a 7.2 level seismic earthquake sought refuge at Grace Village within the sheltering confines of the Lamentin and Waney campuses.
Many years ago, Bishop found 15 girls, orphaned, homeless because of a devastating hurricane named Alicia. Bishop rescued and brought the girls home with him. This was the beginning of their first orphanage. From this modest beginning the Jeunes sheltered thousands of“ orphans of the storm,” displaced by a cataclysm of unprecedented magnitude that killed hundreds of thousands and left more than a million homeless. Where there was but a 20- acre compound, a town of tents and tarps soon sprung up, offering hope, health and food. Though limbs were lost, lives were saved, and diseases spawned by devastation were defeated!
The road to normalcy may be long, but Haitians are strong –– a people historically born of hope, who have survived enslavement, exploitation, dictators and degradation. Their land once known as“ The Pearl of the Antilles” can, with a little help from its friends, once more become a thing of beauty, a model of miracles, a success story written with the creativity and toil of its resilient people and the Word of God manifested by His grace.
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