Dr. Steve Corbett examines each of our children in the village of Redemption.

Our Health Center is not just there to provide a band-aid or an impersonal visit. We are there to recognize each person with a greeting, a prayer, a hug, an invitation to share life, and maybe even a cup of coffee. Currently, we offer free primary care to the community five days a week. In addition to health exams, we offer ultrasounds, physical
therapy and eye exams.

Recently, I met with Dr. Angelica Castillo Cordero, director of our Community Health Center, to discuss the needs, goals and vision of the community. While we were meeting, a grandmother of one of our 5-year-old school children, Gregorio Jose, rushed him into the

Dr. Stan Hand carefully checks out the eyesight of a school student.

Health Center to see the doctor. Her grandson had a fever and stomach cramps with a general infection. Angelica knew her by name. We stopped our meeting to meet eye to eye and heart to heart to feel what she felt and to speak words to encourage her faith in God. This is a Health Center—a place to touch God’s people as they come and go. We love to recognize each person as sent by God, and to see each person receive from God. Our standard is to use both hands with people—preaching and healing.

Dr. Hand examines students’ eyes at our Health Center.

We have a monthly budget, and we are confident that God will put in our hand what He
wants us to give to those in need. Our present constraint is to receive our recognition (licensing)

from the Department of Health. We only need one more piece of legal paper, called a dislendia, but at a cost of $2,000. We have a good supply of meds on hand and have in-country contacts for these purchases.

Children happily wait their turn for their medical examination.

In November, the Community Health Center cared for more than 2,000 people, including 1,400 who were seen by a medical team from First Baptist Church in Orlando. Your compassion for those who are physically hurting, and your desire to help provide care, medicine and healing are appreciated.

~ Jeanne DeTellis O’Connor

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Sometimes a little infection becomes a big hurt for poor children without first aid remedies in their homes.

David Dean leads mission trips to New Missions in the Dominican Republic. Each time, the lives of children are impacted with the love of God and the power of the Gospel.

The story of how a mission trip changes lives is too often buried under “life” when we return home. Below are questions asked of David Dean, a personal friend, who leads mission teams to New Missions in the Dominican Republic.

Tim: On your most recent trip to the D.R., what long-term impact did the team feel they made in the lives of the Dominicans?
David: It usually occurs in the moments we never planned. Six to seven months prior to each of our trips, we begin meeting to discuss how we plan on sharing Jesus with the locals. More often than not, ministry moments take place off our agenda—spur of the moment prayer time with someone who is ill or who recently lost a loved one.

The joy of the Lord is the strength for each child to grow strong and discover their full potential in Christ.

Tim: After a trip, what is life like?
David: Arriving guns blazin’ in the D.R. is the easy part. Returning home to the frenzied pace of our internet driven world can be overwhelming. A day after we came home from our trip I tweeted, “I spent a week in the Dominican Republic and not once did I watch TV or read a newspaper.”

Tim: Spiritually, how has your involvement in missions drawn you closer to God?
David: I’m a big fan of David Livermore’s book on short-term missions called, “Serving With Eyes Wide Open.” Livermore writes that often times, our teams are so consumed with the “stuff” we plan on bringing to the locals that we forget what the locals are longing for the most: our presence. Like our children, the most valuable commodity we can give is our time. So these trips have taught me that my prayer-Bible time are THE most important moments in my day.

At New Missions, you can sponsor a child from the Dominican Republic. Search at newmissions.org for a boy or girl to share your love and prayers.

Tim: When it comes to your prayer for the people of the Dominican Republic, what is deep in your heart for them?
David: The most common request I hear from the locals before we pray for them is that they would “stay hungry for God.” How ironic is that—coming from a people who long to squeeze in one or two small meals a day? It’s a great prayer for my Dominican friends; a great prayer for us.

Thank you, David, for your passion for the people of the Dominican Republic. It’s contagious!

Maria Alexandra Torres Garcia, attends our Bombita school, and is sponsored by The Thirteen Foundation. She has hope in God and is surrounded by Christian teachers and pastors from New Missions.

~ Timothy DeTellis

Luis has a personality much like my grandson Luc. I appreciate my grandson’s commitment to sponsor Luis in school. I believe God has a special future of success for Luis, a good young boy from a mountain village. I love him like he is another grandson of mine.

Have you ever felt your heart squeezed? Since the earthquake in Haiti in early 2010, the hearts of people have been squeezed to do everything they can to help Haiti recover. Thank God Haiti is recovering. My three sons encouraged me to stay focused to help them in Haiti’s recovery.

Meanwhile, hundreds of children in the Dominican Republic have been waiting for sponsorship, while more are waiting to be registered. Our new high school that opened last year will open a second high school session this August—adding 150 additional students. I believe God squeezed the heart of my son, Tim, when he said to me, “Mother, I’m going to help you find sponsors.”

On April 10, Tim’s son Luc turned 13 years old. Nonna, as my grandchildren call me, has not been able to attend many birthday parties of my 10 grandchildren. I can only remember one birthday party with Luc when we happened to be passing through Orlando for a speaking engagement. Tim emailed to tell me he was sponsoring a 13-yearold boy from the Dominican Republic as a birthday gift for his son.

Students at our school in Sosua. Carlos Perez, seated in front, is loved and sponsored by Pastors John and Jen Tether of Queensbury, NY.

Monday morning could not come quickly enough for me to find Luc’s sponsored boy. I had a new calculator and some fine pens to give to Luc’s boy. I found Luis—and he had the same gentle, tender, loving spirit as Luc. I could feel his lean frame as I hugged him, and I felt like I found a new grandson.

Students at our school in Bombita. After holding school in a tent for six years, I believe we’ll see a school built, as God cares deeply for the children.

I apologized to Luis for the little gift, and he melted me with what he said: “Not important at all; it is your love for me that is important to me.” I never wanted to stop embracing Luis, as I loved him with words and a prayer. Luis is the son of a single mother from the mountains, and his mother has been working for the owners of the condo community where I live. I love this new sponsored boy, Luis, like a gift of another grandson.

My son Tim has found over 30 sponsors for children in the Dominican Republic. I have hundreds waiting—in addition to the 150 coming to the second high school session. I ask God to squeeze your heart to help change the life of an innocent, precious child just like Luis.

Students in the new high school at New Life School. In August we will open a second session of high school, and 150 students will have an education they never imagined. All 150 children are awaiting sponsors.

~Jeanne DeTellis O’Connor

The Northland team distributed over 300 shoeboxes to students at the Brache-Milot School. Jack noted that “these children and their families are taught the love of Jesus Christ and see it lived out in a very tangible way thanks to the work of New Missions.”

At New Missions, everything we do has one purpose—sharing the Gospel. This truth was clear to Jack Gritter and a team from Northland Church in Longwood, FL, on their recent construction trip to Haiti. While their tasks included demolition, rebuilding, and distribution, Jack noted that the most impactful moments for the team were their ordained encounters.

The volunteers from Northland replaced tattered tarp walls with wood paneling at a New Missions school.

They first met a young mother named Michelin and her two-year-old daughter. While Michelin was cracking rocks with a hammer, the team offered bottles of water and began a conversation. The next day, Martha, who works in our Haiti office, found Michelin and shared the Good News with her. The team rejoiced when Martha returned and reported that Michelin accepted Christ as her Lord and Savior! Jack described this moment as “awesome, because Michelin had captured our collective hearts.”

Jack Gritter spends time with Lovely, the sponsored child of his business partner, Chip Gregory.

Another day, Jack was able to visit with Lovely Luc, the sponsored child of his business partner. Lovely and her friend came to the New Missions compound on a borrowed bicycle. As the group shared lunch, both young ladies prayed to accept Christ while talking with Charlie DeTellis. Jack was thrilled to return home and share this news with Lovely’s sponsor family.

Though the purpose of the trip was constructing buildings, God also used this team to build His Kingdom.

~Jaimee Marks, Contributing Writer

Lovely and her friend, Nicole, accepted Christ during their lunch with the construction team.

The children in Ti-Boucan have seen New Missions buildings destroyed and rebuilt.

We now have the majority of our main infrastructure for the administration of the mission in place. This year, we have received 14 containers consisting of building and medical supplies, and Christmas shoeboxes. Five buildings have recently been completed, and we are working on three more buildings at this time.

A further evaluation of every location is currently taking place. We continue to tear down buildings damaged during the earthquake; this month, the church at Darbonne and the school at Fond-Jacques were torn down. Our backhoe tractor has been extremely useful for the demolition of buildings.

A new church and school facility in Ti-Boucan is a symbol of hope to this mountain region.

It was wonderful to be working in the Brache-Milot, Darbonne, and Fond-Jacques schools this month. In addition to these locations, we are very thankful to have a new “container warehouse,” where we organize our building supplies for future projects. In the past, 90 percent of our buildings had concrete block walls. Our current building plans consist of using all wood or metal for any schools or churches, as they would hold up better if there were another  earthquake to strike the island. We earnestly want to complete the rebuilding as quickly as possible, and are working according to a priority of building needs. Eventually, we would like to launch out into further locations—establishing additional schools and churches.

Tim DeTellis prays inside the new building with Pastor Joseph Elifete Eliane from our Ti-Boucan Church and school. Pastor Joseph is a graduate of New Missions Bible College.

Thank you for your prayers as we continue the rebuilding process. It is a joy to be serving God in Haiti.

~ Charlie DeTellis

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New Missions Ti-Boucan Campus - Click for a larger view.

New Missions Santo Campus - Click for a larger view.

Construction teams serve strong as new churches and schools are built at New Missions.

Warehouse facility construction at Bord-Mer.

The new warehouse facility will help contain and distribute 31 tons of food each month, plus store construction supplies.

The Bord-Mer school children now have two new buildings.

Children are thankful for their new school benches and classrooms in Bord-Mer.

New Missions Fond-Jacques Campus - Click for a larger view.

New Missions Bord-Mer Campus - Click for a larger view.

Trusses are pre-built on location at New Missions in Haiti and then delivered to construction sites.

Already this year, brand new sound systems, keyboards, and percussion instruments were sent to Haiti for each church.

ohn Schaefer, from Singers Glen, Virginia, manages our construction teams in Haiti.

The smiles of children receiving rice bring a moment of hope and opportunity for lives to be truly changed.

New Missions sponsor Tammy Rahn noticed a recurring theme while reading through Scripture. Verse after verse described God’s heart for “the least of these,” and Jesus’ ministry showed His love and provision for the poor and hungry. After discovering these truths, her own heart reflected her Father’s priorities. “To have the heart of God, you can’t help but want to feed the hungry,” says Tammy.

This realization spurred Tammy into action. After many trips to Haiti, she was familiar with the needs of the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Tammy had interacted with the poor and hungry and knew there was more to be done. Even before last year’s catastrophic earthquake, many Haitians struggled to eat enough to survive. The disaster only intensified the problem.

The team arrives in Haiti to distribute food at New Missions Schools.

“Scripture commands us to always have a heart attentive to the poor,” says Tammy. “To me, that is Haiti. I believe that is where God’s heart is.” She began to raise money with her church to provide rice for families in Haiti. Through fundraisers, Newport Assembly of God in Pennsylvania raised over $5,000 to feed the hungry.

In February 2011, Tammy and her family traveled to Haiti with other members of their church to distribute the rice they raised funds to purchase. The team held dry feedings at three New Missions schools. During the distributions, the team gave rice and oil to each student and prayed over each of them. The food and cooking items were then taken home to provide meals for entire families.

During the dry feedings, team members pray over each student. New Missions is dedicated to encouraging students’ physical and spiritual growth.

“I always get teary-eyed when a child gets a bag of rice,” said Tammy. “It makes my day just to know something as simple as that makes such an impact in a life. I count it a privilege to be the hands and feet of God in Haiti. The Bible says we will always have the poor among us, but we always need to be among the poor—helping, encouraging, and lending a hand whenever we can.”

Tammy and the team from Newport Assembly of God distributed food to about 850 students during their week in Haiti. Hundreds of families were blessed by the obedience and commitment of this church. The team was also blessed as they saw the promise of Proverbs 22:9 fulfilled – “A generous man will himself be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor.”

Students eagerly waiting to receive essential food items to share with their families.

~ Jaimee Marks, Contributing Writer

Team members are the hands and feet of Jesus, as they distribute rice and oil to each student.