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Thank you for your prayers and support that have made this possible. For the past year Haiti has been under extreme duress due to political and economic hardship. As a result food and fuel have been scarce and expensive. Most people living in Haiti have found is very hard to get to work and to get food. Cross to Light has been enabled through our supporters to deliver another relief container full of food. The Haitian government has continued to give Cross to Light favor and has continued our good standing NGO status that allows us to bring this relief into the port. Our distribution network is unlike any in Haiti. It consists of 10 bible teaching churches that are located throughout the various provinces of Haiti. Each church is involved in their community, has a leadership team and is able to distribute relief aid effectively to those most in need. After our relief aid containers arrive at the port, the emergency supplies are then brought to the Training Center and then distributed to the churches. At times, this food supply is the only relief people have received in a very long time. The bible promises a special, conditional blessing to those that help the poor: Psalm 41 Blessed is he who considers the poor; The Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive, And he will be blessed on the earth; You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies. The Lord will strengthen him on his bed of illness; You will sustain him on his sickbed. Thank you again for your much appreciated support and may God richly bless you! 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[embed]https://youtu.be/2C3q9rT9dVI[/embed] Port au Prince, Haiti - In spite of the continued unrest from intermittent food and fuel shortages, Cross to Light continues to move toward sustainability for its Haiti operations and in support of the Haiti Bible Teaching churches. Here's a few examples of how the Haiti Bible Training Center, Campus and Churches are sustainable in Haiti: God Powered Teaching Wind generator provides a large portion of the Haiti Bible Training Center's electricity. The electricity used to be intermittent because the Haiti electric company's electricity goes on and off throughout the day. Now, there is zero interupption which preserves food and helps to power the online teaching for the students. (show a clip of the teaching). God Given Brain Food We have chickens that supply delicious eggs for the students, staff and mission teams. We are working toward equipping each church plant with chickens, chicken coup and a supply of chicken food through our Haiti Relief food container deliveries. God Grown Fruit The Haiti Bible Training Center and Campus are filled with fruitful trees including banana, mango, coconut and avacodo. Jesus's Favorite Breakfast We are so blessed by all of the volunteers that come out and apply their God given gifts and trades to improving our operations. For example, a mission team member came out and donated his talent, time and equipment to set up the most amazing talapia tank possibly on the planet. The water is crystal clear and the fish are happy. So is taco tuesday time! Manna Another example of the body of Christ contributing is a pastor and his wife that have made it their responsibility to bring in bread ovens and grain to enable our operations and the churches with bread. This is a delicious luxury in Haiti as the primary food available there is beans and rice. The bread is a reminder to the churches that God is sweet and He loves them and provides exceedingly abundantly. Thank you again for your prayers and support! As we continue to work toward an efficient and sustainable operation we are continually so blessed by the body of Christ coming together and contributing in such amazing ways.

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="no" equal_height_columns="no" menu_anchor="" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" background_color="" background_image="" background_position="center center" background_repeat="no-repeat" fade="no" background_parallax="none" parallax_speed="0.3" video_mp4="" video_webm="" video_ogv="" video_url="" video_aspect_ratio="16:9" video_loop="yes" video_mute="yes" overlay_color="" video_preview_image="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" padding_top="" padding_bottom="" padding_left="" padding_right=""][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_1" layout="1_1" background_position="left top" background_color="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" border_position="all" spacing="yes" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" padding_top="" padding_right="" padding_bottom="" padding_left="" margin_top="0px" margin_bottom="0px" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_speed="0.3" animation_direction="left" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" center_content="no" last="no" min_height="" hover_type="none" link=""][fusion_text] 3 Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?” 4 And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. 6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. Matthew 24 Port au Prince, Haiti – September 4, 2019 It's been seven months since the last fuel crisis. Haiti is once again up against a major shortage. Our team in Port au Prince had to wait five hours yesterday to get a couple gallons of gas. It has been reported in Cap-Haitian that it is $30US dollars for one gallon. AFP reports, "A source close to a prominent petroleum product importing company told AFP there is a cash flow problem. 'The Haitian state does not have the economic means to pay its debts to the companies that import gasoline to the country," the source said on the condition of anonymity. "And for us, when we don't have money, we can't place orders.' Venezuela's PetroCaribe program, plagued by allegations of corruption but which had allowed Haiti to buy petroleum products more cheaply and on credit, has been suspended for more than a year because of deteriorating relations between Venezuela and the United States. Hurricane Dorian, passing through the Caribbean this week, also delayed petroleum deliveries. In May, judges of the High Court of Auditors said in a voluminous report that President Jovenel Moise was at the center of an 'embezzlement scheme' that had siphoned off Venezuelan aid money intended for road repairs." Operating in Haiti has taught us that there is a crisis about every quarter. "Crisis" in Haiti means no food and no fuel for days and even weeks. Riots erupt, people starve, the sick cannot get any help, people cannot travel and fear, hunger and anger are rampant. Please pray for the safety of the pastors and their congregations. Pray for them to use this crisis as an opportunity to reach out to people that find no peace in their government but can find peace in the coming kingdom and in Jesus Christ, the only leader that will not let you down. [/fusion_text][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

Cap-Haitian, Haiti One emergency response team that came out to help ventured up to the Northern part of Haiti to help one of the Cross to Light church plants in Cap-Haitian, pastored by Leonel Azilien. They took the bumpy, noisy and dangerous bus ride through the treacherous mountains and safely arrived at their destination six hours later. Like all the other emergency response activities they did during their stay in Haiti they were there to serve and to be Jesus hands and feet to the people of Haiti that had just recently been pummeled by Hurricane Matthew. One of the activities Pastor Leo set them to do was to move a mound of dirt that had been cleared out of the church property in preparation for building. It was smugly sitting just on the outside of the church property, blocking the entrance. The team gathered up some buckets and got to work. They were directed to move the mountain of dirt from where it was to filling up ruts and holes in the road winding down and away from the church. The team organized themselves in an assembly line and got down to the dirty work, moving one bucketful at a time. A beautiful thing shortly happened. The neighbors saw the line of workers and came out to help; women and children included. Typically in Haiti women would not participate in something like this but they did that day. A new line formed, a line of both black and white, of men and women. A line of strangers bound together in a new job that was blessing both the church and the road. As heaven looked on I bet they were reminded of the streets of gold they walk on. This newly repaired road glistened; not with specks of sparkling rock but with the love of God being displayed in people coming to work together on something that would improve the lives of everyone that traveled that way in the future. I think this is what Jesus meant when He said, "love your neighbor as yourself". Give a hand, become a part of an improvement project, show the way to heaven with your actions.

A mission team from Calvary Chapel Yorba Linda recently ventured out to the Cap-Haitien church as part of their week long visit with Cross to Light. Their goal was to provide a free medical clinic for several days to the people at the church and surrounding area. The Cap-Haitien church plant is pastored by Leo Azilien, a Cross to Light graduate and Cap-Haitien, Haiti native. Pastor Leo was thrilled to host this medical outreach event. Part of the church plant building plan is to build an extension to the church for a medical facility for medical outreaches. Pastor Leo explains that there is a huge need for medical services for the people of Cap-Haitien. There are currently only two hospitals for the more then 300,000 people. Many of the people cannot afford the medical services provided by these hospitals and there is no national medical coverage or assistance at this time. Pastors Leo's dream is to offer the people a $1 per visit medical service which will help pay for a small portion of the cost of running the medical clinic along with donations. The team from Calvary Chapel Yorba Linda was thrilled to be able to provide medical help to the people in the area. It was open to all. The team had an unending line of people in desperate need of medical attention. Help was limited without the medical facility but basic triage assistance was given. Besides assisting the team's Doctor, the team was able to share the gospel and pray with people that were waiting.