New Hope Community Church is currently organizing relief efforts for our brothers and sisters in Haiti. We will keep you posted as best we can, as communication is still difficult. Below is Pastor Jephthe's most recent email of his situation.

Here's how you can donate:

Make your checks out to New Hope Community Church and put "Haiti Relief Fund" in the memo area. Either mail them to the church (6400 N.W. 31st. Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL. 33309 954-971-3050) or drop them by the church office, or drop them in the offering plate on Sunday morning.

Pastor Jephthe's Email 1/15/10

I am doing just that. Trying to get people from Pignon to come back from Port-au-Prince. Pray that we might continue to be successful. I am praying for you and your family because for the last 10 years you always have your trip planned by now.

I Just got back from PauP. The truck broke a record of 18 people with boxes of medications that teams had left at the guesthouse as well as medications that I used to do mobile clinic. Pictures that I had are so digusting. Dead bodies of Children and adults alike laying on every street after being dead for almost 48 hours. I cannot believe how many buildings are down on the ground. I just don't know how to start this email.

The people I took to Paup are people from Pignon who want to find out about their family members. You cannot imagine how many are on the streets from Pignon to Paup trying to find a way to get to Paup. 15 miles from Port I could see mothers and children on their arms with luggages on their head trying to get home. I went directly to the house of jut about every person who was in the truck to find out what has happened to our children and family. We are all family in a small community like Pignon. Everyone wants to know about every child who was in Paup. They are all everybody's children. About (50) fifty people that we know are dead in this area. So far only two that we know of have been found and put to a funeral home. They might be part of the literally two thousand (2,000) people including children that I have seen laying on streets of Paup after being dead for so long. Thousands of thousands of people are still under the concrete. I feel so sick about what I saw.

Absolutely no one who survives stays indoor. Everybody stays outdoor and every where I went hundreds of people were laid on the streets with dozens of dead bodies right next to them. Most people who survive are probably going to get sick from these incredible situation. Most people want to leave. I felt so sorry taking just 15 people back to Pignon with me on the SUV. Many who left their close relatives under the concrete. This is a long story. I am going back to get more people back. I am going to try to send money to some students so they can come back. I distribute all that I had which was not much. I am tired. I have to go to bed without being able to proofread this.

I brought back with me my wife's 5 months old and 9 year old nieces. My wife's sister had to stay on the street because there was no more seat on the vehicle. She is with over 100 people on the same block with her. It was the same on every block that I stopped. I could not have enough food for all these people and not enough money to get them back to their villages. I just don't know. Keep on praying for us. I will let you know later. While I am on the road call me instead.

God bless you. Excuse me is my thoughts are not clear.

Jephthe