Every day we are fielding calls and inquiries from partners and friends that we know, discussing the Haiti crisis, in particular about orphaned children. As we continue to discern our role as a ministry in response to this disaster, in addition to our continued prayers for the people, relief workers and orphans of the country Show Hope is allocating some discretionary funds to a couple of small organizations the Chapman family is connected to personally. One of the major challenges of a disaster of epic proportion like this one is coordinating emergency relief efforts, especially when there is infrastructure damage to the government. We are grateful for organizations like the American Red Cross (among many others) that exist and are trained for times such as this. The organizations that we have decided to support in the immediate short term thus far are quite smaller and have people on the ground that we know. You can find links to them below.
Also, our good friend Wess Stafford, President of Compassion International has a long personal 33 year history in Haiti as it was the place where he and his bride, Donna exchanged their wedding vows. Roughly 10% of their 65,000 sponsored children in Haiti resided in Port Au Prince near the earthquake’s Epicenter. We lift up their team and their children in prayer as well.
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My husband and I are trying to find information on adopting one of the Haitian orphans. It looks as though the State Dept. is only granting emergency visas to those children already in the adoption process. Do you have any information on children who still need to be adopted or is the chaos still too great at this point? Thank you for any information you can provide at this point. Please let us know how we can help rescue one of these little ones. God Bless You!