RAISE THE ROOF

THE NEW CLINIC

This Saturday evening what seems to have become an annual event for G.A.P. fund raising will take place at my home church here in Indiana. I'm of course talking about the 4th Raise the Roof Concert that a G.A.P. board member and his musician friends started back in 2005. This concert has become a well attended event to raise funds for specific ministry projects that G.A.P. go and produce Ministries supports in Haiti. Once again this year we will be raising financial support for the on going construction of the new Canaan Community Clinic building.

At last year's Raise The Roof Concert we weren't thinking of building a new clinic but rehabing the two small stuctures we had been using. Within a several month period of the 2008 concert God had multiplied the clinic construction fund four fold, this encouraged us to rethink our plans to His much bigger plans. In the year an a half since we have opened the clinic we have seen as many as 50 patients in the four hour period it is open each day. When the American doctors come every other month the patient numbers double. We also run an infant nutrition center for malnourished babies at the clinic two days a week.

With the funding we have raised to this point we are well pass the half way point to reaching the estimated budget amount we need to complete this project. If God blesses as abundantly as he did last year we will soon reach our goal.