Global Reach Updates - March/April 2024

Thank you for partnering with our friends and fields in Global Reach. The following are a few updates from some of our Global Reach fields. Please continue to pray for our leaders and believers as they serve God and share the Good News with seekers.

Haiti

The country has been locked down for weeks at this writing and gang activity is rampant. There is national news stating the UN hopes to send in a peace keeping force to help mediate the unrest. Locals report that the government is nonexistent, and gangs are attempting to take over the capital, Port-au-Prince. Common every day Haitian citizens across the country have begun to block roads and express dissent with the current president, corrupted government, and gang activity.

The Project Help Haiti (PHH) hospital administrator in Pierre Payen has shared that people are starting to die of starvation around Montrouis, Carpi Atre, Bois Neuf and the areas surrounding Pierre Payen. The hospital has reached its breaking point since people are hunkered down in place and not able to go out due to danger from gangs. There is no traffic and patients are rarely even able to get to hospital. More than 14 people were recently killed in the Montrouis area as gangs swept through. The hospital is no longer able to make payroll. All are struggling, and hospital and medical staff must be released due to financial hardship caused by civil unrest and corruption. We need strong prayers!

There is some good news amid this ongoing tragedy. The recently installed phase one solar energy system of Pierre Payen Hospital is functioning very well. It has cut almost half of the monthly gas cost of the hospital.

PHH Liaison Droicin and Assistant Liaison Milus make well planned out trips to the various churches to encourage and fellowship with them. They also share with them the necessary resources to help the Sister School/Church Program continue ministering to the locals.

The Haitian Church conference was even able to hold their annual conference at Borel in early January. Attendance was less than normal but that can be understood due to safety concerns related to the situation in the entire country.

There was damage to our Frecyneau campus wall that was able to be prepared recently. This is important to help with the safety and security of our school, church, and the Physical Therapy/Nursing schools that all meet there. PHH has several sister churches and schools that do not have a sponsor. There is a need for funds to help provide for these unsponsored churches and schools. If you would like to help support the unsponsored churches, give to GR2803-Ministries. To support the unsponsored school programs, give to GR2713-Education.

India

Pictured at below is Madhumita with her new laptop provided by generous donors from the Churches of God, General Conference. She is thankful to the Lord for this gift and conveys her thanks to the friends at CGGC who made this possible. She is in her first year Post Basic BS Nursing, a twoyear program at St. John’s Hospital Nursing Institution. She needs your prayers.

Pastor Sunil pictured far right, and Pastor Phillip pictured far left (in photo below) at evening prayer meeting in the house of a new friend. The husband was caught by the police due to his bad habit of stealing from the company he worked for. The family came requesting Pastor Sunil to pray for the man that he would be released. While in police custody, he had a painful experience, and the man prayed in the name of Jesus that he may be delivered from his situation and bad habit. It is by the grace of God that he has been released. He has changed his lifestyle and become a new person. He and his family believed in the Lord.

In the same home of this man, the local people come to listen God’s Word. The children are learning Bible songs, action songs, and doing their studies as they meet there.

In another location, children at Pastor Balveer's place enjoy Sunday school and child development programs. They also have regular prayer meetings for their communities and enjoy after meeting lunch time and fellowship together. These fellowships are growing rapidly.

Thailand

Bryan & Katie Crabtree welcomed their son, Theo Daniel, into their family on November 26, 2023.

Bangladesh

The Bangladesh Mission staff have been continually active this winter. Just like in 2022, the winter in 2023 has been very cold for them. Pastors that recently received new bicycles through CGGC donors expressed their gratitude as it enables them to visit more areas in a week than if they were walking. Blankets and sarees were distributed to many areas for the Mission widowed women and among non-Christian community people.

During the Christmas season, many childrens Sunday school classes celebrated Jesus’s birthday. There have been many new believers take baptism in various areas throughout the Mission during this winter.

Please pray for the children who are enrolled in the hostels. There are many new children, and most are from our churches, and they are also from poorer families. Some blankets have been provided for the poorest children in the Mission hostel.

In 2024, the Mission has started a couple of child development programs for the underprivileged children in our most northern ministry areas. Most of the children come for class and for Sunday school type programs. Pray for their hearts to be touched as they come each day. We also gave them their tutoring books as well as Sunday school materials.

Please remember to keep Haiti in your prayers as the difficulties are many right now. Our Asia fields are also facing various challenges of resistance and it is becoming ever increasingly hard to share the Good News. God is faithful.