Emergency assistance to Haiti

Thank you to all those who gave alms for their help. Haiti has experienced the worst earthquake in its tragic history. Hundreds of thousands of dead, injured and homeless. 80% of buildings in the city of Port-au-Prince have collapsed, more than 2 million people have lost everything. Churches, hospitals, infirmaries, schools and houses are completely destroyed.

Continue to pray and help the people of Haiti to survive and rebuild. The urgent needs are water, non perishable food, materials and medical equipment and tents for the hundreds of thousands of homeless.

Our emergency project to assist is ongoing. We have, for 22 years, proven experience and dozens of employees with integrity and professionalism in the Caribbean. Our assistance goes directly to those who suffer and is dedicated to the good cause. There is great urgency to continue to help now. You can donate directly through our website.

We must be ready to bring joy into the homes and faith communities battered by so much suffering atrocious. Your help, your prayers and support are a great encouragement to face this terrible disaster and help to save lives

Pray for the success of our ministry, because we need your prayers! In anticipation of your contribution we hope always generous, please receive our greetings in Christ and the thanks of the people of God who is waiting for your donations. Donate Now. Thank you on behalf of the Lord.

Yours to serve the Lord

Stela Prodan, Director

V. Rev. Radu Roscanu, missionary

Emergency Earthquake Assistance to HAITI

Dear friends and benefactors,

As you know, Haiti has just experienced the worst earthquake in its history. Hundreds of thousands have died, are injured or homeless. Tens of thousands have perished. 80% of buildings in the city of Port-au-Prince have collapsed and more than 2 million people have lost everything. Churches, hospitals, infirmaries, schools and houses are completely destroyed.

We have contacts and friends in Haiti and our employees pull themselves together. Pray, and help the people of Haiti to survive and rebuild. The urgent needs are water, non-perishable food, materials and medical equipment and tents for the hundreds of thousands homeless.

We opened an emergency project to assist these people in distress. We have, for 22 years, proven experience and dozens of friends working with integrity and professionalism in the Caribbean. Our assistance goes directly to those who suffer and is dedicated to the good cause. Thank you for your generosity. There is a great urgency to give now. You can donate directly through our website:

www.entraidefraternelle.com

www.brotherlyhelp.com

Your help, your prayers and your support will be a great encouragement to face this terrible disaster and will help to save lives. With the help of the Almighty God we can rebuild a better Haiti, one person at a time.

Your journey is too great

“Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.” (1 Kings 19:7)

Dear brothers and sisters,

To begin a new year is somehow like contemplating a journey. We have come so far - perhaps the journey has been tiring. Who knows what is ahead? Will we have the strength and the courage to meet whatever lies in our path and to reach our objective?

We have put our trust in Christ! He has paid on the cross for all our sins. By faith in His sacrifice we have been considered righteous by God. By Him we are today what He is: the light of the world. (Mt 5:14).

“It is impossible but that offences will come” - said the Saviour (Luke 17:1). These offences came even to the most reliable men of God. They come to us, on our journey through life too. These do not disqualify us from being the light of the world.

Elijah the prophet passed one day through a very intense crisis for his soul. He wished to die. He was angry with God. He revolted against Him and didn’t agree with His plans. And in this state of mind, terribly furious, he fell asleep. How will God deal with his rebelliousness now... His servant deprived totally of hope?

He sent an angel.

Woe, what a damning message will this messenger of God bring to him? But instead, the angel awoke Elijah from his sleep. It must have been something very important if God took such trouble to send an angel from Heaven for this purpose. “Arise and eat!” the angel said to Elijah, and gave him a cake (1 Kings 19:5-6).

It seemed not too costly to God to send an angel for the rebellious Elijah. He was still His child, His prophet. Even if he passed now through a great spiritual crisis, he still remained Elijah the prophet. Even though he rebelled for a while, wishing to die, and seemed as if he didn’t want to know any more about God.

Elijah woke up and ate. But the bitterness he felt was not over. As it happens often with ourselves when we pass through a great crisis of our soul and suffering, we feel the need to sleep in order to forget. So Elijah did nothing else after that: he fell asleep again!

The angel of God came to him the second time. Now we would have surely expected that the angel would rebuke Elijah for his attitude that lacked gratitude. But no! To our surprise, the whole message brought to Elijah by the angel is again this: “Awake and eat, for the journey is too great for thee.”

God had not rejected Elijah. On the contrary, in His eyes, he still remained His prophet, the same man of God to whom such an important task had been entrusted, that it surpassed the natural strength of a mere man. The way prepared by God for Elijah, as a prophet, was too long and difficult for a simple man.

This journey of such great responsibility God has entrusted to the man who just then had passed through moments of difficult spiritual crisis - who was even in rebellion.

Do such moments also come over us? Have we, too, known hopelessness and rebellion? We can look back over a year and see where we have succeeded, but perhaps this backwards view is clouded with the memory of disappointment and failure. Never mind. Those do not annul the gifts and the calling to which God has called us.

It is true that in those moments we were a “light of the world”; we were without hope, rebellious, but we were still God’s children.

It is important that we are built on the Rock of Ages that is Christ. The waves of despair have passed and will still pass over us; but the Rock will remain unmoved. With the Rock, we too will remain.

Jesus said about Himself “I am the Light of the World”. Oh yes, with this we are all in agreement that He is the Light of the World! But we don’t believe that we are what He is. Let us look closer at this thing.

Jonah was also a prophet of God. The way of Jonah was not the way of obedience. On the contrary, Jonah fled from God. He did not agree with the plans of God, neither on behalf of others nor for himself. Jonah fled from Him. God did not flee from Jonah, but rather looked for him. He brought him back to Himself even with a strong hand. This not in order to punish him, but to tell him: “Your disobedience was only a parenthesis. Go on now and continue from where you left. You are a jight for the world.”

The world is mostly in darkness. Many of our brothers and sisters suffer trials and persecution. Through the days ahead we need to be like mirrors to reflect the light of Christ to needy people and to bring hope and encouragement to those in despair.

The journey is great but as we feed upon the Word of God we will find the grace and strength to fulfil His purposes.

Even we, too, have fled from God and have rebelled against His plans, He has not left us. We were and still remain His children. Not by our deeds or merit have we achieved this degree. Not by deeds, be those good or bad, shall we lose this honour. We are in Christ by His grace and mercy. By His grace we shall remain through to the end of the journey. We are the light of the world.

May He help us in this.

Sincerely in Christ,

Richard Wurmbrand

Sent by God

Dear friends and benefactors,

We received this very nice letter:

Sent by God

Two children of God, humble, driven by their hearts and with great love for those in need, were sent by the Lord to rescue their brothers and sisters in Cuba.

Rev. Radu and his wife Stela have engraved in our hearts with great love for the poor, they have become instruments of God to rescue and give a helping hand to those who require aid and, through them, they send mercy and passion of our Lord to us.

Regardless of their age, regardless of their health, God has comforted them and like vultures as they flew from their distant Canada to bring us help. They know that God has supported them and renewed their strength in each of their four missionary journeys, and we hope to see them more often.

Always with a smile on their lips and with words that bring hope they provide us with a lot of love and they show us in practice the teaching that Christ gave us when he told us to love our neighbor as we love ourselves. We give thanks to God and to all those whose donations make possible that the missionaries that we cherish can assist people of Cuba and especially those most disadvantaged.

Signed: Community of St. Francis de Paul in Havana, 9 June 2009.

Dear friends, this letter is a gift for us and shows us both that what we give to you grows the kingdom of God. Spread it on your own benefits. Be generous, help according to your means through our projects. Your reward will be multiplied a hundredfold.

In this summer, think of our neighbor. As you prepare your leisure and your vacation - well deserved - remember those who have no time to prepare a holiday because they can not take a vacation or give one to their family. How many children must work to help their family? How many? There would be only one, it would be one too many. Therefore please do not forget your neighbor. Make a generous donation to help feed him, clothe him, and treat him if he is sick, to console him if he is in pain. Our mission is there to receive your donations in order to transmit them to those who are suffering.

In this economic crisis, think of your neighbour. It is time to act, to Brotherly help others. Let us make a generous donation to help feed, clothe him, and treat him if he is sick, to console him if he is languishing in prison. Our mission is there to receive your donations in order to transmit relief to those who are more suffering than another.

Help right now by giving them a gift by calling 450-967-7792. Have your credit card with you.

We are all concerned about the difficulties of the brothers and sisters of the regions of the Caribbean (Mexico, Ecuador, Haiti), and also from Romanian country, Slovakia, Ukraine, Russia...

Your gifts can create once again, more joy. An illustrated Gospel for children costs $5; the average salary is of $40 a month; a prayer book costs $5; a car costs $5,000 and people cannot pay it.

It is now the privileged moment for us to be ready to help, to bring the joy in the homes and the communities where faith is so low, after so long and so much suffering.

We send our gifts exclusively to the persons in charge of the communities that we know, to the families in suffering and in scarcity of everything, that distribute the gifts. More than a million youth await our gifts and our books. Help us to distribute good to them!

And pray for the success of our apostolate, for we need your prayers! In the expectation of your contribution that we hope will be generous, please receive the thanks of God that awaits your gifts.

Yours, in the service of our Lord,

S. Prodan, Director of the Mission
Rev. Radu Roscanu, Missionary