These Friends are Well

We wanted to update you on some friends who we posted were missing.

Menes and his son Sumens are well as is the rest of their family. Please continue to pray for all the others.

Needs List...

Wings wish list:

Tegretol!
Phenobarbytol 15mg/5ml
Tryhexfenidill 5 mg
Dogmatil 200 mg

Benedryl to help the kids sleep at night
Cough medicine
Ibruprophen

Benadean (the orange liquid to clean wounds)
Rolled gauze
Non-stick gauze/wound pads

A doze headlamp flashlights as you can stuff in your bags. Everyone wants mine!

Thanks!
Renee

Need Host Families…

 

All families who are interested in hosting children being brought out of Haiti on refugee status please contact Fran at AMHfamilies@hotmail.com. There is an application and background check with fingerprints that needs to be done before children can be placed.

Due to the conditions in Haiti all missions trips this year will be scheduled medical trips or construction trips. If anyone has any questions they can contact us at angelsmissions2@msn.com

People that are Missing..

 

Menes and his son Sumens

 

Jeudy Fitho

 

Kevin one of our workers in Haiti

 

Dr. Jaque

 

Roberta‘s kids

 

Claude teaching Keli to stir and roast coffee

 

 

David Dani and Baby Daughter Gabby

 

Pastor Samuel—No Photo Available

More Info

Dear Friends and Family,

Praise God,

1 Pastor Gerard and his family have been found alive.

2 The Emanuel School, Chapel and Surgery Center are still standing. And now providing a home for 1,700 Haitians who have lost their homes. Photos of these places below.

We have redone the office in Virginia for Earthquake Relief and add more staff. Please pray for them daily as I am about to leave for Haiti.

Beth Richardson is our new Executive Assistant she can be reached at AMHStaff@hotmail.com

Britnie Carpenter is our new Medical Teams Coordinator, she can be reached at AMHMedical@hotmail.com

Fran Johnson is handling all of our host families for those children needing medical care in the US and if Refugee status is granted by the US Government for orphans. Her email is AMHFamilies@hotmail.com

Kez is alive and doing great things. I have been told she is working Miracles. Our Clinic on Delmas 91 is intact and she has been able to sleep indoors every night. Although not getting much sleep. She is out of supplies but thankful we will be there sometime next week.

Limited Phones she has been able to get limited phone service back and some internet.

Please pray that her water supply holds out. (this is of major concern)

I am in contact with the Military and will be assisting them as needed once on the ground.

* Please pray for the 7 of us that leave for Haiti Monday Morning.

* Please pray for the work we are about to do in Haiti may we all work to Gods Glory

* Please pray for the children at the orphanages who are out of food and water

* Please pray our Government opens it boarders to the children who are orphaned, That we have loving homes for each of these children who have lost everything

* Please Write your congressmen to support the relief needed.

* Please pray for the families we have lost and the ones we are still searching for

* With God all things are possible. This is horrible now but just how the Haitian People are reacting by sitting together and singing praises to God. It amazes me over and over in each broadcast if you listen you can here someone singing praises to God. Kez said that as she walks the streets helping and the 300 in the field close to us, you can always here someone praising God. Yes you see the bad things that the news covers, but that is a small part and made even more graphic when those people see New Media and Cameras.

* Thank you for all of your continued support, prayers and love

All my love in Christ love and service, Vanessa AKA Momma V



Vanessa A. Carpenter

Angel Missions Haiti - Director

www.AngelMissionsHaiti.blogspot.com
www.AngelMissionsHaiti.org

home 540-380-4588
Cell 540-580-9721

Answering service 1-800-409-7948

Update

New info.

Great news surgery center, chappel and school are standing. all of them.

Next new info to add to the web site and the blog.

Fran is in charge of Host families for children who are granted refugee status Her new email and phone # are below

Beth Richardson is my new assistant director in the US
Her phone number is 540 353 5058 Her email is AMHStaff@hotmail.com

Britnie Carpenter is in charge of Medical Missions
Her phone number is 540 314 9904 Her email is AMHMissions@hotmail.com

Fran Johnson is in charge of Host Families for medical and refugee status children
Her phone number is 540 820 3759 Her email is AMHFamilies@hotmail.com

Thanks love V




Vanessa A. Carpenter

Angel Missions Haiti - Director

www.AngelMissionsHaiti.blogspot.com
www.AngelMissionsHaiti.org

home 540-380-4588
Cell 540-580-9721

Answering service 1-800-409-7948

Haiti Update Jan 13 7:30pm…

 

HIS Home for Children sustained structural damage and minor injuries, other than that all children are okay.

· Three Angels Children’s Relief also sustained structural damage but all children are okay.

· St. Josephs Home for Boys was completely destroyed, all boys are accounted for but two have sustained serious injury and need constant prayer. There is no hospital to take them to.

· Our clinic on Delmas 91 is still standing and Kez, our U.S. nurse is taking care of them the best she can.

· We have news that Pastor Gerard was in a building that collapsed with no survivors. As reported on the news, a hospital in Petionvile, had collapsed.  I’m happy to say this facility was no longer a hospital and was not full of ill people. However in the last year had been turned into a Handicapped Rehab Center. There was a U.S. therapy team there on a mission trip. The building did collapse, some made it out, but many are unaccounted for. The one report we received today was that they were hand digging through the rubble all night, and will continue to look for those that are trapped.

· Bresma and Margarite have reported in okay.

· Wings of Hope sustained major structural damage, but all are healthy and accounted for.

· Trinity house in Jackmel sustained no damage or injuries but the road from Port-a-Prince to Jackmel is impassible.

· On the north coast in Port-De-Paix our friends at Lashbrook Family Ministries are all safe and accounted for. They are preparing for the onset of refugees that will be coming to the countryside from Port-a-Prince. They request prayer that God will provide the necessary supplies and food. Before today all supplies came from Port-of-Prince and now there is none.

· Sister Fidelis and Sister Jo are safe in Pestel.

· There are many more partnering agencies we have not heard from, so please keep them all in your prayers.

What we are coordinating here in the U.S. for Haiti

· At the present time we have set up an Earthquake Relief Fund. One hundred percent of all donations will go directly to Haiti, to help the children of Haiti.

· We have been contacted by four medical mission teams who are mobilizing to deploy to Haiti to provide medical relief and care to the Haitian people. We will be coordinating all of their efforts with St. Damians Hospital in Tabarre.

· The U.S.N.S. (Naval Hospital Ship) “Comfort” is in dry dock in Norfolk .We had contact with Captain Wear and they will be leaving for Haiti ASAP.

· We have been offered two shipping containers of food from” Feed my Starving Children”, and we are in the process of raising $8000.00 U.S. dollars per container to ship the food immediately to Haiti. Our contacts in the Haitian government, whom we have spoken to, promised to release the containers of food immediately upon arrival in Haiti.

· We have been contacted by our friends at Proctor and Gamble, they are working to get three million packets of PUR. (These packets purify water into drinking water.)

· Please continue to keep all the wonderful Haitian people in prayer and pray that God continues to bless our work helping the Haitian people.

In Christ’s Love and Service, Vanessa

Pictures to Use…

 

These pictures are from before the earthquake. Feel free to take any photos off of our web site or blog if you can get them.   love V

 

Clinic- Still standing but has structural damage

 

My boys at the street boys home they are now homeless as the whole house had collapsed.  2 were hurt very badly.

 

My boys in their uniforms we have our own boy scouts group

 

Our kitchen that is now gone.  We play darts once a week with the boys.

Outside of our new building.  We do not know if it is still standing.

 

New Dental room

September with the triplets i found near death

Earthquake Update…

 

A major earthquake struck 10 miles South of Port au Prince just before 5pm local time. There has been significant structural damage to St. Joseph’s and they are still accounting for everyone. Most of the damage was below the level of the chapel and most of the kids were outside during the event. Wings suffered structural damage but all are safe there. We will continue to keep you posted as news comes in.

I have heard that Michael and the boys are fine.  In the street as it is not safe to go inside.  Bill was hurt but details are limited.   Please pray for all of the children at St. Josephs family and all of the other Orphanages Three Angels, God Little Children, HIS home for children, Deedee's house. Dorothy's house and the many others we do not even know. 

 

All my love momma V

Earthquake in Port au Prince…

Dear Friends and Family,

As most of you have heard by now we have had a devastating earthquake hit Port au Prince Haiti.   I am flying down to offer what assistance I can.  We will be using the buildings for medical treatment.  We will need funds to purchase what supplies will be needed.

Please be in Prayer for us, for our safety and all of the children we take care of in Haiti. 

Love,
Vanessa A. Carpenter

Major Earthquake Hits Outside Port-au-Prince Haiti

See the news reports at CNN and The Associated Press.

Please use the donation button below to help us provide food, water, and other aid to the people of Haiti affected by the earthquake.


All donations will go straight to helping the people of Haiti and are tax deductable.

Picture Updates…

The first one is the best photo I have ever taken.  All the kids are smiling.  The girls look great but still having water green diarrhea.  Please continue to keep them in prayer. 

 

 

Triplets Update…

Hello to everyone!

I am so sorry that there have not been updates on the triplets.  We have had problems with the computer crashing and not remembering how to access the sight.  On September 19 I was able to bring the triplets to the US for medical care.   We have been able to get them diagnosed and found that they have a very rare allergy to Milk, Soy and Goats milk.  They are on a hypoallergenic formula.  They are gaining weight and will all have surgery on their Hernia's next spring when they are bigger.

 

Grace is up to 11.3 pounds
Faith is up to  9.7 pounds
Little Hope is up to 8.6 pounds

We are so blessed to have them in our lives and doing so well.  All of my kids love them and help with them.

 

Please keep our work in Haiti in prayer as donations are way down and there are so many children like the girls who will die without medical care.  We need to raise $15,000 to get all of the equipment installed in the surgery center.  Our container was released from customs this past week.  Our dream of a surgery center in Haiti were we can help save so many more children’s lives is almost finished.  We will start surgeries in April of this year.  Please pray for medical teams to come help so many children in Haiti. 

love V

Solyvien Favra…

Solyvien Favra is doing great.  Imagine being a little boy in an accident that kills your mother and leave you lame for the rest of your life.  Just because your father could not pay the outrageous cost of medical care.  Solyvien and his father were turned away from the hospital because of not enough funds to pay in advance for medical care.

It took us 4 years to get Solyvien accepted into the US for life changing medical care.   Solyvien is here in Virginia receiving care from Carillion Hospital.  He will need 3 surgeries to get his foot straightened.  He is in school learning so much and doing so well.  Just look at his smile and how great his foot looks after just one surgery.

Solyvien has also been to the Dentist to have his teeth checked and fixed.  He had two teeth that had to be extracted they were broken in two and the dentist said they were some of the worst teeth he has seen.  I can not imagine having that kind of pain in my mouth for years.

 

Solyvien's story is just one, thousands of children who go without medical care every year.   Many die due to the lack of affordable medicine or surgery.   It is so important that we are able to get the clinic and surgery center up and running.  We will be able to help the children who's parents can not get them medical care.   Parents that love their children and go from clinic to clinic, hospital to hospital pleading for care for their child.

Little Angel Surgery Center,  We are partnering with Haitian Christian Outreach to open two operating rooms.  For US doctors to go to Haiti and operate on the children of Haiti.   Special operations such as Cleft, Hydrocephalus, orthopedic.  Our container of equipment was finial released from customs.  The building is built, we now have the container we are only short $15,000 to finish and install all operating equipment.  Recovery rooms will be also be equipped and ready to go.  We are now signing up medical teams to come each month to operate on the children who need our care.  If you or anyone you know want to be a part of this monument life changing and saving mission please contact us at angelmissions@hotmail.com

We hope to train Haitian Doctors and Nurses to continue free medical care for the children.  It will take years, but with God all things are possible,  our dream for helping the Haitian People will come true.   Thank you for all you love, prayers and support. 

love V

Triplet Update…

I am happy to tell you after only 10 days we have hit another milestone.  Last night all 3 girls woke up on their own, for food.  Hope has been the last hold out.  I was so proud of her, I cried and prayed.  We have much more to accomplish I just wanted you all to celebrate  and Thank God with us.
I took photos today when they were all awake (and happy at the same time).  It is so hard to believe that they this little.  I used a wash cloth as a blanket to cover them from the air coming in the window.  And the regular bottle I use to make up there formula was laying there.  It is bigger than their bodies. 

Bernard was able to get the paperwork he needed and so tomorrow we go for passports for each child.  Then all we have to do is get the file together and go to the embassy.   Please continue to pray that they give us these much needed visas.  Then I will make arrangements to fly home with all 3 babies. 

Thank you to the local churches who are on stand by to start helping at our house round the clock. 

Blessings to all of you,

  love V

A Quick Update…

Well other than being very very tried all is going well.   A dear friend is here to help tonight so I can sleep all night long. 
We are all doing ok.  Not great but stable.  Bernard is racing to get all of the paperwork for the babies and of course I do not have all the funds needed.   Please if anyone can help we could use your help.
Sammy's Uncle came in to Port au Prince today.  He said the whole village had a party for Sammy on Monday welcoming him home.
Sammy is doing great.  Eating, playing sleeping and being well loved by Mom, Dad and all his aunts and uncles. 

Have a blessed day love,

Vanessa

New Baby Pictures…

A Couple of Pictures…

 

One of the newest little girls

 

 

Sammy family photo

Kerven…

Kerven was a healthy 8 year old boy until march of this year.   This mass started to grow at a rapid pace.  He has no time to go to the US.   A doctor friend of mine is coming to Haiti Sept 12.  Will try to operate and pay for his medical care.  Please pray for Kervens and his family.
Love,
V

All In God’s Timing…

 

We often say in Gods timing but do we truly know what that means. I am going to tell you about my last week here in Haiti. Let me know what you think.

I was scheduled to bring Sammy back to Haiti Sept. 1. Unknown to his family so that we could get the reunion on tape with out them knowing he was coming.

4 weeks before this scheduled trip. I receive an email asking if I still worked in Haiti. There were these Christian bands and Rap artist who were going to raise money for AMH and some others working in Haiti. Would I be in the Miami area on Aug. 21.

Well I was not to be in the Miami area and I really did not want to miss the first days of school with my children. But if I were to fly to Miami on the 21^st. It only made since and saved funds to go on to Haiti early and return Sammy.

So we made plans to come to Miami for the concert and then fly onto Haiti with Sammy. I went to the Embassy where he was received as a Star (No one including me ever thought he would make it )

The next day I got tickets for me and Bill Nathan to go to Port de Paix to take Sammy back to his mother and father. We did not tell any of them. We went and were met at the airport by a driver. But Sammy’s bag did not make the trip. So we had to spend the entire day at the small airport waiting for the late flight to bring us his meds and formula all of his clothing.

It was almost to late to travel to Sammy’s home town (3) hours away Basin Bleu. But we went. Got there right before dark. Took Sammy to his Uncle then his parents house. The reunion was wonderful. We stayed at Missions of Love they were wonderful and did not even know we were coming. The next day I went back to Sammy’s house to see him before we started back to Port de paix. We were driving and the doctors said to me. Have you ever seen triplets survive in Haiti. I told him know, it is even rare for twins to make it. He pointed out a road and said that two months ago there were triplets born down that road. Do I want to go take a photo of them. Sure I was seeing the small village and people that would be great. So we went.

Well we got there and in a bed was 3 of the smallest human beings I have ever seen. They were all ill, running a fever and barely breathing. The mother said she had been praying for God to send an Angel to take them. And just that day I had worn my Angel Missions T-shirt. She said she thought he would send an angel to take them to heaven. She was so happy to see me. Mom is also ill. They showed me mom has NO milk, they had been given 3 cans of formula when the babies were born but they were empty. Showed me the empty cans. I was told for the last 8 days all they could give them was sugar water. (Not clean water but out of a dirty creek)

They asked me to take the babies. Please make them well like you did Sammy. How do you say No to that. I prayed and both the doctor and I thought that two of them would not make it through the night. The doctor even said maybe you should wait come back tomorrow to see if they are still alive. I looked at the parents told them that there were no promises that they would live even tonight but if they wanted I would take them to Port au Prince and try to get medical visas for them. I told them over and over that they may die.

The father, doctor and myself picked them up and headed out to the car. I do not think they wanted to give me time to change my mind. We looked all over the small village No formula or even powdered milk anywhere to be found. We went to Sammy’s parents and asked for a little bit of formula and a bottle. We got a dropper from the doctor and started to feed them back at Missions of Love, We got a few droppers in each baby. I threw all of my stuff in a bag and we headed to Port de Paix.

I knew of a Missionary there who had said we could stay with them anytime we were in town. So we went. 3 ½ hours later we arrived. Me, Bill and 3 babies. (Lashbrook Family Ministries) They took us in and helped me to do all necessary for the next 2 days to keep these little angels alive. They gave us formula, bottles, diapers, cloths, they stayed up with me and them and we fed them every 2 hours. Well sure enough they came around. I also got medication for them all as soon as we got into town. Called the US doctor and asked how much to give each of them. 1 cc because they are so small. We gave them on drop of cough meds and Tylenol around the clock all fevers broke.

Hanna, Vance, Audra, Julie, Keith, took such wonderful care of us and they already have 115 children depending on them.

On Sunday we returned to Port au Prince by air. Me Bill and 3 smaller than new born infants. (remember now that they are 2 months old).

Showed up at St. Josephs gave Michael the scare of his life. He is happy my clinic is next door. He also has been so very helpful and my boys are priceless as always.

We got Dr. Jack on Sunday to see all 3 babies he was amazed at how they look. How well they are doing and how small they are. The littlest has Pneumonia and the other have horrific colds. Fevers that come and go. But it has now been 5 days and all are still alive.

We are working on Medical visa’s for all three. We are praying for their recovery and the funds to come in for me to get them all to the US.

I started this out in Gods Timing. His timing is always perfect. If I had not listened to him and went to Miami and then on to Haiti. These 3 beautiful little girls would not be here now.

Please keep us in prayer. For all who live close in Virginia we are going to set up a volunteer sheet for people to come to the house and help us with the babies around the clock. Please consider signing up for a shift here and there. For anyone who feels led to help with the expense please send donations to Angel Missions Haiti (for Grace, Hope and Faith) I named them this so I could keep up with them. There given names are very close to the same name. Wayne, Waylande, Wayline. I am very sleep deprived and need to keep straight in my head who I am working with at all times. We are recording all intake and out take of formula. Had only a few vomiting spells.

Thank you to everyone who is helping and will help with these babies soon. Love V

4 days after getting them

Hope, Grace, Faith (Grace and Faith are identical)

These are preemie cloths that are way to big on them.

New born diapers cover them all the way to their chest

Vanessa A. Carpenter