Team One.27 exists to broker a free and generous exchange of our American Team’s material resources and our Haitian Family’s spiritual riches to their reciprocal needs: Bread of Life to the physically hungry, Living Water for the spiritually thirsty. Our mission is to rescue the most vulnerable children of poverty, and to empower them as Christ-centered leaders of Haiti.
We are overjoyed to relay the news that Daniel, his family, staff, and nearly 200 kids were all spared from both injury and death, a clearly miraculous situation! Two of their three properties were destroyed, and they won’t return to the buildings due to fear of future collapse. To put this in perspective, the neighbors next door to Daniel’s rental property lost 86 people. In typical saint-like faith, Daniel simply said over the phone “I believed God to protect all of my children by faith, and He did. I believe now by faith God will provide all that we need, and I thank Him already that he WILL!”
Though they were not hurt in the initial earthquake, they are now dealing with a severe lack of food, water, and shelter, and they are exposed to desperate and violent gangs while they are on the street. Their immediate plan is to leave the suburbs of Port Au Prince for the countryside, where they will be safer from violence and the spread of disease.
Thank you to everyone visiting this sight in support of Haiti in this present Crisis. TeamOne.27 is gathering support to send to Daniel in their hour of need, and you can donate here online or by sending a check (see our donate page). In Berks county, in the Reading, PA area, we are also displaying donation buckets at many local stores with our name and logo where you can make cash donations. If you are interested to find a location or to get a bucket for your business, call Jeannie Hetrich at West Lawn United Methodist Church at 610-678-5611 ex. 14. We pay our own overhead fees, so 100% of donated money will go directly to Haitian hands without passing through corrupt mediators in Haiti.
Our “Family” in Haiti lost nearly every material possession they owned, and will have to rebuild from scratch. We heartily endorse our Team to support any legitimate major organization that can get lifesaving supplies immediately to Haiti. We will be dealing directly with Daniel as he ministers to his Family, his church, and the community around him making your gifts available to him as possible with most Haitian banks destroyed, yet we are looking long term. The true value of our ongoing relationship with this Family is that we will still be investing in them and their future long after the media and the influx of emotion and aid is gone. Our prayer is for the rebuilding of Haiti, and a future location for our Family that will enable them to rescue the most vulnerable children of poverty and empower them as Christ centered Haitian leaders.
TeamOne.27
Team One.27 is a Team of individuals in America serving our Family (God’s “Family” of brothers and sisters) in Haiti. Together we are carrying out the love of Christ as described in James 1.27 “Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.” NLT. Join the American Team One.27 as we serve our Family in Haiti!
What began as a grassroots friendship between an American and a Haitian family has grown in less than a decade into an extended Family in Haiti comprising a series of Homes of Blessing, caring for well over 150 orphans, and a Team of committed partners in the United States who consolidated their resources via an official not for profit corporation: Team One.27. The heartbeat of the mission from its inception was to rescue the uncared for orphans in Haiti with food and water, shelter, family care, education, medical help, and future hope through the love and instruction of Jesus Christ as revealed in scripture, knowing this will in turn expand the blessing to their communities (the widows and poor) and ultimately the entire nation of Haiti! Team One.27 exists to practically “put hands and feet” to this mission.