Emmanuel International

Grass-roots, Hands-on.  December 19, 2024

Psalm18:30. NIV. “As for God, his way is perfect: The Lord’s word is flawless; he shields all who take refuge in him."

The 1988 Annual Report starts with the words, “1988 has been an exciting year of watching God’s hand working through His church worldwide.”

*The Creve, Haiti program was in its third year of CIDA project funding and Martinez Jovin became the Haiti In-Country Representative, a position that he filled for the next nearly 30 years.

*Relief aide for hurricane victims in St. Ann’s Parish, Jamaica was done with church partner Jamaica Evangelistic Mission.  This marked 6 years of this partnership.

“The Northeast region of Minas Gerais, Brazil is acknowledged to be one of the neediest in the state, if not the country.”  This is a quote from EI’s 1989 Annual Report. "Some of the issues sited were limited education opportunities, tenant farming, lack of clean drinking water and no system of sanitation, widespread malnutrition."

Brazil’s EI team, made up of Brazilians and Canadians, worked with their partner church, Igreja Methodist Congregation, to tackle these problems through various interventions:  classes on hygiene and nutrition, backyard gardens, small animal husbandry of rabbits and goats, and construction of latrines, affectionately known as “zoolies.”   The team dug 3 ponds and capped 2 springs.  Families received water filters and seedlings for reforestation.

Where it all started

September 12, 2024

The Letters of Patent declaring Emmanuel Relief and Rehabilitation International to be a recognized charitable organization is dated September 11, 1975.  September 12, 2024 begins our 50th year, our Jubilee year!  In the Bible, every 50th year was a reset year, a year of rest. The Jubilee was a year of acknowledging Sovereign God, His grace, His provision, His heart for His people.  

With Samuel of old, on the 12th of September 2024, join us in raising our Ebenezer; for truly, ‘hitherto has the LORD helped us.” 

 I Samuel 7:12:  “Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far has the LORD helped us.”