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| In 2010, Touch Heaven Ministries partnered with Rachel's Challenge and Kids against Hunger ( to bring one million meals to Haiti. The meals were designed by a medical doctor to include all of the nutrients that a child needs in a single day. Each meal consists of a mixture of rice, vegetables, chicken flavoring, minerals and soy protein. 4,000 students and volunteers gathered at Rockwall High School in Texas on May 6, 2010 to package a million meals in a single day. A delegation of 50 native Haitians now living in Miami traveled to Rockwall to participate in the million meal effort and to accept the donation on behalf of their families in Haiti as dignitary guests of Touch Heaven Ministries. |
| With the help of volunteers from several generous non-profit organizations, including El Rey Jesus Church, First and Alton, J/P Haitian Relief Organization, and Sow a Seed, Touch Heaven Ministries coordinated the transportation and distribution of the million meals to hungry children in Haiti. The meals were loaded into four semi trucks and transported from Rockwall, Texas to Touch Haiti Now's warehouse in Davie, Florida. Touch Heaven then worked with First and Alton to ship the four containers of meals from Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Once the containers arrived in Haiti, J/P HRO sponsored the meals and handled all port interfacing. After the meals cleared the Port, J/P HRO delivered the four containers to a warehouse space secured by Sow a Seed, a non-profit organization started and led by a group of Haitian-American professionals to provide the basic essentials for disadvantaged children living in extreme poverty. In the months leading up to the transport of the million meals to Haiti, Touch Heaven Ministries worked closely with local organizations in the greater Port-au-Prince area to identify and qualify orphanages, schools, and ministries in need of aid. Hence, a comprehensive food distribution program was birthed, which was premised on the priority to serve impoverished orphans, children, and families. While focusing on assuring the efficient and expedient delivery of the meals, Sow a Seed and touch Heaven volunteers worked together to supervise the distribution of the meals to all of the schools, orphanages, churches, and tent cities. Moreover, through their partnership, Touch Heaven and Sow a Seed constructed an accountability process, which served to verify that all of the resources had been safely distributed to the receiving ends. |
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| "My testimony is short & to the point: Imagine living in a tent for nearly a year with no hope for the future, no job, nothing but some rags on a pallet or two inside a leaky tent in 50-60 degree damp weather. Top it off with no money to buy life' necessities like food. Then, one day, thanks be to God, 3500 packets of food arrive unannounced! It's like manna from heaven! We started our food distribution today, December 14, 2010. Here are the photos we took before breakfast. They are children from our camp (which has 711 people) and our school (which currently has 288 students). You can see for yourself from the photos how happy the children were when they were receiving the food. I know, without a doubt, that the parents were equally excited! May God bless you & those who contributed their time, effort & money be blessed this Christmas, and may you always give thanks for all you have been given and all you take for granted. |
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In Christ whom we serve, |
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We appreciate all that you are doing to help us. Since the beginning of this year spiritually and naturally according to the will of God, the quota of the million meals you have sent to the Church of Jesus Christ as well to the Camp of David and Zion foundation Camp at the mountain voodoo headed by Pastor Jean Sereste Michel. Saturday December 11, we have made family distribution in the Camp of David, tent by tent: A full box of food to each family. Sunday December 12, we have made Food bags rationing to the Members of the Church of Jesus Christ families right away after the service. The rest of the Boxes will go to some local Churches in the mountains where the need is the most. We want to thank you and all your partners for your thoughtfulness. Bishop Jean Ernest Chervil |
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In addition to the previous photographs I have already sent in Saturday in Sunday morning church service of the family food rationing, here I now send you these new photographs of Compassion Children ‘s Home feeding today, which I think show the pleading help for Haiti and the impact of the out reach of your ministry. Many thanks |
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Hello, Diddi Washington |
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