The Free Methodist Church in Canada

World Relief Canada is an affiliated ministry of The Free Methodist Church in Canada. Here is their latest release:

We received the following message today from the staff of our sister organization World Relief US, who we will be working with.  We wanted to update you with some more details on how they are currently responding:



"We are providing urgent medical attention to hundreds of patients at Kings Hospital.  We have also set up a feeding center with a local church - we are provided hot meals to hundreds of people every day.

This will be scaled up in the coming days and we will be trying to coordinate our efforts with partner organizations.  We will be working with our local church partners to set up additional feeding centers and the provision of non-food items."

Thank you again for your support, concern and prayers.

This news is from Linda Stryker who is at the US FM mission office this week.

We are praising the Lord for news just received from Bishop David Roller who had talked with Dr. Dan Snyder just a short time ago.

Today Dan saw ICCM/Haiti field coordinator, Perkins Mondale whose wife is also alive but has some injuries. Haiti Superintendent Devariste, who is also the local pastor of the church near the ICCM office, is in the hospital with a broken leg.

The ICCM building and other FM buildings are still standing. The only FM building in that area that totally collapsed is the Friends of Haiti Organization (FOHO) building.

This afternoon Jack Munos and Katie Zook, who are now in Miami, seemed to have made a turn for the better. They were awake, alert and talking to people.
More news direct from Haiti is expected tomorrow. Andy Yardy, who was authorized by Bishop Roller to go to Haiti to get specific information about our brothers and sisters in Haiti, is in the Dominican

Republic near the border with Haiti and will continue his trip to Port au Prince in the morning. His trip has been challenging. He left Indianapolis for Haiti as soon as possible - about 12 hrs after the first earthquake hit. He has water, water filters and medicines with him. I'm sure he would appreciate you adding him to your prayer list along with all the other huge needs we are taking to the Father. If you want to follow his tweets, go to twitter.com and type in "laxglobal".

Linda Stryker

(In Indianapolis with Linda Adams)

The FMC has had a long history of ministry in Haiti. Our family there includes almost 80 churches with a membership of close to 15,000. ICCM, our childcare sponsorship program, sponsors 4000 children through 53 school-based programs around the country.

At the time of the quake there were 17 American FM missionaries or short-term workers in Haiti. We have received word that a mission building in Port au Prince collapsed in the quake with a number of our workers in the building. Several members of the FM team are not yet accounted for, and at least two have been medi-vacced to the US with serious, but non-life threatening injuries. All other personnel are accounted for.

In an emergency situation like this, the FM Church does not have trained emergency response teams – we work with organizations that do. Our primary partner in this regard in World Relief Canada. We would encourage any emergency funds to be sent to them directly to minimize time delays. Keep posted at their site for updates on their plans.

But the real challenge in a situation like this is the medium-term response – the next couple of months. Civil infrastructure, presently almost non-existent, will be severely stretched. Things like shelter while homes are being rebuilt; food and safe water, trauma counseling, etc. These are the kinds of things that our churches on the ground do well! In past natural disasters in Haiti, the distribution system through our churches has proved to be a significant aid. We are able to work directly through our leadership infrastructure on the ground and to transfer funds to the places where the need is greatest. At present the quake seems localized to Port au Prince, but it would be normal for many people to return to family in rural areas while they await the rebuilding process; in the weeks to come rural churches may find themselves serving many displaced persons from PaP. The two mechanisms that we have for getting funds to our family in Haiti for help in the weeks to come are the Bishop’s Relief Fund and International Child Care Ministrie (Canada).

As we have more information we will keep you updated.

Please remember our brother & sisters in several Haitien-background churches in Montreal, and elsewhere, with family members impacted by this as well. Communication with Haiti is almost completely non-existent, which doesn’t help.

Bishop’s Relief Fund via funds sent to FMCiC designated for this purpose, or online NOTE: Click on the "Donate now" button and select "Bishops Relief Fund" and complete form.

International Child Care Ministries (Canada)

World Relief Canada