Delivering shelter & hope...

Tarps are a great blessing to many who have nothing

loading up for another adventure

More shelter is still needed

Tarps and tents are needed by all

Medical care is still a big need

Preaching as the aid and medicines are delivered

Sanitation is a growing concern, as retreving and burial of the victims is a slow process

Some help is reaching some areas,

but many of the more densly populated areas remain un-aided

Many are still camped in public centers, without adiquate shelter

Homes & apartments were ripped open by the quake

Shanty towns are rapidly growing

From the desk of Joey Klein, visiting CDMM team member who has come to respond to the need for Aid in Haiti:

I came prepared, bringing plenty of supplies and tents to build shelters. Our team was also equipped to provide medical help… but nothing, not even previous disaster responder experience, could have prepared me emotionally for the devastation we encountered in Port-au-Prince. With the stench of death all around as thousands of buried victims have yet to be recovered. Still more impressionable to me were the survivors searching for shelter and substance in the streets, hanging on to precious life. As my heart wrenched for the pain of those around me the smiles on the faces of the hungry Haitian people reminded me of God’s great providence.

Though broken down and hungry many people are grateful to be alive and band together to help each other rebuild. The devastation is enormous with every major building flattened and most homes as well leaving no safe place indoors. Nearly two weeks from the first quake the ground was still unsettled and the quakes continued throughout the day and night... one lasting only a few seconds nearly knocked me to my knees... the remaining buildings continue falling apart and falling down all around the city. People continue to be injured and killed by these shocks still people break out in worship and song following the aftershock quakes, thanking God for a fresh chance at life.

With the ocean port destroyed, very little help is able to come through and reach the nearly two million people living in the city. The best way to reach the Haitian people with much needed supplies is by traveling over land from the Dominican Republic. God has placed Christian Dominican Medical Mission in the position to be an instrument to bring the needed help to Haiti.

The crew and supplies arrived in Santo Domingo, Saturday; to meet up with Gary and CDMM team, we then drove through the night and arrived in Port-au-Prince Sunday morning. We were able to deliver and set up many tents and tarps for temporary housing (EVERYONE needs them) and also deliver medical assistance with Gary and my sister Christy seeing patients. We went to the neighborhoods of Carrefour (only five miles from downtown Port au Prince) where we were the first and ONLY foreign aide and relief to reach the area. We have partnered with a Dominican ex-pat, a business owner living in Haiti, a Haitian surgeon, and an independent Christian church already organizing community recovery.

CDMM will be returning frequently to assist the neighborhoods of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Aztec in Carrefour, as finances and supplies (tents in particular) come in we will continue to deliver resources to those in need and share the practical love of God to these un aided communities.

Thank you friends, for your prayers, encouragement, and financial assistance. As we continue our medical and church planting projects in the Dominican Republic and our effort to aide Haiti we consider it a high honor to collaborate together with each of you to extend God’s hands of love to hurting people.

Check us out and get involved:
www.cdmmissions.org



Joseph M. Klein
1st John 3:16-18

Return to Haiti...

Help is arriving, but much more is needed

For the survivors, food, money & resources are depleting quickly

Entire hospitals are in the streets without as much as a tent for shelter

People are delivered to the make-shift street clinics in everything from jeeps to wheelbarrows

Homes, businesses, and public buildings were torn apart

It is not uncomon to cart large loads around by hand... this is now a solomn task

The city is in chaos

Dear Friends,

Even with the foreign aid pouring in from all sides, Haiti still needs our helping hands, our fervent prayers and our christian love demonstrated to them in a real, tangible and material way as they struggle through the hours, days, weeks, months and even years to come. It is difficult to even begin to describe the devastation, pain and suffering that I saw there in Haiti last week, but what was even more astonishing to me personally was the faith and reliance on God that I saw lived out there in the tent-city relocation camps. Around the clock, they have been preaching and singing God's praises. At the camp where we stayed in Carrefour, as well as in many if not all of the other camps there, everyone sang, prayed, & preached for over an hour three times between 10 pm and 6 am. Instead of the resentment or disbelief that you might think a disaster like this could produce, all I heard there were praises and prayers of supplication. They are glad to be alive. They are waiting on the Lord for what follows… yes, even for their next meal.

Since the big quake over a week ago, there have been many smaller tremors, falling debris, crumbling buildings, injuries and loss of life. Over the next few months, we could possibly see the death toll more than double from infections, the still falling buildings, unsanitary living conditions and the epidemics of pestilence and disease likely to follow this recent tragedy. Care must be taken to address the issues of sanitation & medical care in the densely populated areas of Haiti. The job is not done, the task has only begun.

Please pray for the on-going relief efforts in Haiti as you seek God's leading on how to respond to this. My father and I will be joined by my brother and sister, along with a few other volunteers visiting from the U.S. as we return tonight with tarps, tents, rope and other supplies needed for shelter from the rains which are bound to fall sooner or later. In addition to bringing these much needed supplies, we will be planning & setting up for our involvement there over the next few months. Please lift us, our safety, and the work that we are going to do up in prayer this weekend.

A couple of things have been in the works here around the office this week:

1. You can now donate via Paypal

2. We have a domain & hosting. Within days, the new webpage will be up and running. The future online homepage is:

www.cdmmissions.org

(for the time being the bulk of the info will be going up here on

www.christiandominicanmedicalmission.blogspot.org)

Please use our forwarding agent, Dean Willett's address to send a donation in by mail:

Dr. Dean Willett

676 Grassy Hill Rd.

Summerville, SC 29483-5365

Thank you and God Bless,

David Klein

Haiti, 1st Response

Passerby, crushed by a falling hospital wall

Digging the misfortunate out of the rubble

buried alive

Gary Klein, ready to treat patients

A young lady being treated for severe head injury she suffered during a quake

Many were trapped under the rubble

Shelter is scarce. Most are entirely without any cover whatsoever

The streets are lined with destruction

Rebuilding will take years

Multi-level buildings are now reduced to a heap of broken concrete & dreams

After spending 5 days taking emergency medical relief to some of the areas in Haiti most devastated by last week's earthquake. Mission director Gary Klein & I (David) went to Carrefour, Port-Au-Prince, and Jacmel, where we went to provide emergency care and critically needed medical supplies in four different hospitals and two of the many tent-city relocation camps that have been set up for the many who were displaced from their homes by this tragedy.

In these efforts, we had the privilege of working in co-operation with Haitian contacts Caleb & Hemson who have studied at IBVT, the Bible training school in Mucha Agua, as well as Dr. Kissinger, a christian neighbor of Caleb's and a practicing doctor in Port-Au-Prince.

With God's protection and expedience, your prayers, and armed with medicines that many of you have helped gather for us,we were able to treat hundreds of seriously injured quake victims, many of which would not have survived the trauma of this disaster, had it not been for a timely arrival of these supplies, medicines and urgent care.

The recovery from this catastrophic event will be a long road and require a lot of outside assistance to make possible. We currently find ourselves with a great opportunity to minister to many in need, and to use this as an open door to share the Good News with people who are now more hungry for it then ever. Please pray as you continue to partner with us for the furthering of Christ's kingdom here on the island of Hispanola.

We will be returning soon possibly as soon as Saturday) with tents, tarps, and materials to build outhouses... a measure that will be necessary to avert a serious sanitation and health crisis in the next couple of weeks. This is an urgent concern and needs immediate attention, as most buildings are damaged and people are living in large tent-city relocation camps, most without a single bathroom or outhouse available.

be sure to check us out on facebook (Christian Dominican Medical Mission) and here on our blog (http://christiandominicanmedicalmission.blogspot.com/) to keep up with the progress of this relief plan and how you can take part in this great ministry opportunity.

Please send all funds that you wish to designate to this Haitian relief effort to:

Dr. Dean Willett

676 Grassy Hill Rd.

Summerville, SC, 29483-5365

make checks out to Christian Dominican Medical Mission.

Thanks and God bless!

David Klein
Missionary, Dominican Rep.

senorklein@gmail.com
809-856-9799 (cel)
skypeme: klicksteratgmaildotcom