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Coram Deo International Aid (CDIA) is a Christian charitable organization which seeks to impact the lives of Haitians through education, spiritual leadership, and medical aid. Working through the Adoration Christian Centre in Port-au-Prince, CDIA strives to witness the love of God and the truth of His Word. On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit the Port-au-Prince area. As a result of this disaster, the Adoration building collapsed and was destroyed. At the current time CDIA is working to provide immediate disaster relief to its community. The long term goal is to rebuild. CDIA trusts that the Lord will guide the project, and the new Adoration Christian Centre will take shape. “Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails.” (Prov. 19:20) |
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Jim Kamstra and John Kottelenberg On January 12, 2010, Jim Kamstra and I were visiting the Adoration Christian Centre project on behalf of the CDIA board when we experienced the Haiti earthquake first hand. We are still very mindful of His Protection given to us on that very difficult day. The need to go back and put some closure to our traumatic experience continued to grow stronger over the past few months. On June 17, Jim and I returned back to Haiti for a 5 days visit. What a blessing this was! We thank the board for giving their support for this visit and a generous supporter for providing us travelling vouchers. |
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Read more... [Jim Kamstra & John Kottelenberg - Return to Haiti]
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Coram Deo International Aid (CDIA) and Word & Deed Ministries announce their intent to Merge At the initiative of Coram Deo International Aid (CDIA) and with thanksgiving to the Lord, the respective boards of CDIA and Word & Deed Ministries announce our intent to merge subject to approval by the CDIA membership. Given the similarity of our mission and mandate, the overlap of our respective supporters, the need of CDIA for administrative services given her growth over the past few years and the 16 years of experience Word & Deed has to date, the intent to merge is believed to reflect both practical wisdom and an encouraging degree of unity among our supporting churches and denominations as we together, in a diaconal capacity, strive to extend the Kingdom of God in the developing world Our intent to merge has resulted from several meetings between ad-hoc committees representing each board over the past year and the hope is that final approval for the merger will be given by each board and their respective memberships by the end of 2010 with CDIA fully merged into Word & Deed Ministries by the end of 2011. CDIA would cease to exist as a separate charity and continue on as the Adoration Project Team overseeing Adoration Christian Centre in Haiti as part of Word & Deed Ministries. Adoration Christian Centre, will continue to be managed by our field workers, Randy & Karen Lodder and Kim Gringhuis. Both boards wish to emphasize that the merger will not reduce the involvement of current CDIA volunteers and supporters. Both organizations have developed a culture of enthusiastic involvement and support and the success of the merger depends on this continuing under the indispensable blessing of the Lord. May we together be instruments in His hands to the salvation of sinners and the strengthening of His church both in Haiti and in the many other countries Word & Deed has the privilege of working. Inquires can be directed to CDIA at
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Summer is going to be here very soon. For us here in Canada that means schools will soon be out and our children will have a few months off. In Haiti, things will be different this year. Due to the interruption of school caused by the earthquake on January 12, the government has ruled that all schools will run through the summer until the end of August. This will allow schools, at least those which are open, to finish the curriculum for this current year the best they can. Unfortunately, schools in Haiti are not allowed to be inside due to concern for building structure safety. Therefore, all classes are held outside under tents, tarps or shade trees. One can understand that the quality of education is a real concern. |
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Read more... [June 2010 Update]
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
With praise and thanksgiving to God, CDIA announces the re-opening of ADORATION CHRISTIAN SCHOOL, which took place this past Monday, May 31st. The report from the field:
“Adoration was blessed to open its doors once again to 120 students, 10 teachers, two cooks and one very excited director. Praise God from whom all blessings flow! It was such a blessing to hear children’s voices talking, singing, laughing and reciting on the property - definitely beats the sounds of hammers and drills! Makes all the work seem worth it and makes us all very thankful for what people in Canada have done for Adoration - given financially, remembered us in prayer, sacrificed time at work and with family to come and help. We know that so much was lost in the earthquake and that so much devastation has taken place, but at the same time a lot has been gained. God is good.”
CDIA thanks all who contributed to our rebuilding effort in any way and would especially like to thank Word and Deed and CRWRF for their support of our post-earthquake work.
Please continue to remember the Adoration Christian Centre in your prayers.
Please see Randy & Karen's and Kim's personal blogs for a lot of pictures and details about the reconstruction of the temporary property.
Randy and Karen Lodder:www.randyandkarenlodder.blogspot.com
Kim Gringhuis: www.kiminhaiti.blogspot.com
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