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Haiti

Within hours of the 7.1 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Rich was huddled with key ABWE personnel in Harrisburg, PA to make some important decisions as to how ABWE should respond to the overwhelming crisis in Haiti. Calls were already coming in just hours after the quake asking if ABWE would be involved in the relief effort and where to send funds.

Rich and the ABWE Advanced Assessment team returned from their two week assignment in Haiti. Please take a moment to read the news letter listed on the right of this introduction. See "Rebuild and Reach Out - Haiti"

For 32 years we served in the country of Peru and then we had a crisis ministry outreach in Asia which has developed into a fantastic spiritual opportunity. The Tsunami that touched Asia at Christmas time 2004 moved our hearts and eventually led Rich to help with ABWE relief efforts in the region.

In May 2006 the School of Missions (SOM) teams began going into costal villages with Vacation Bible School for the children. Following that week of DVBS our first CELL GROUPS began meeting. By November 2006 there were 111 cell groups meeting in 25 different villages with a total attendance of 2,077. That was a sufficient basis for starting 24 new churches. By Easter of 2007 13 daughter churches have been started bringing the number of SOM churches to 37!. We are teaching the church planters that the Great Commission commands us to continue reproducing local churches until the Lord comes!

This entire project began as a result of the Lords working after the Tsunami and the ABWE relief effort with our partners in the region. Exciting things are happening at this moment as the School of Missions has completed training church 33 planters with a vision to plant many churches in the years to come.!

We hope you will enjoy discovering some of the wonderful things the Lord is doing in CCAM and all the Americas. Our desire is that this little corner of the Internet will provide information that will be helpful to each person who drops by to see what’s new.

We will share many exciting opportunities opening up in CCAM. We now spend a great deal of our time traveling and have discovered that the most economic location to travel from is the US. This reality has given us the motivation to make our base of operations the US as we constantly launch out to other points of the globe. We have now completed 36 years of missionary service with ABWE and look forward to even greater ministries in the years to come before the Lord takes us to meet Him in the air.