Anyone wishing to assist with a donation can contact Bill Glass via
e-mail at haitioutreach@hughes.net; home phone 388-2263; cell phone
320-0777; mail 725 Redding Road, Sumner, ME 04292. Checks should be
made out to Haiti Outreach Ministries with a memo on the check for
contingency use. 

SUMNER — Bill and Linda Glass of Sumner learned Wednesday that the ministry compound where they work in Port au Prince, Haiti, was severely damaged by the earthquake, but no one was hurt.

Bill Glass, president of Haiti Outreach Ministries, said he received an e-mail from senior pastor and field supervisor Leon Dorleans advising him of conditions in three of the compounds in Port au Prince.

“In Cite Soleil the entire walls of the compound are collapsed and the back of the medical building is down,” Dorleans wrote. “I was at Blanchard when the quake hit and thank God, no one was injured at the compound.”

Dorleans said he could not get into his office because bookshelves had fallen and blocked the doors. He had to leave his car on a road and walk home because of debris blocking roads. He also said his wife slept on the street instead of in the house to avoid being injured if the building collapsed during an aftershock.

Dorleans has spoken at the East Sumner Congregational Church, which supports Haiti Outreach Ministries.

The Glasses said they were in Haiti in early December, ending a year in which the ministry helped repair 125 homes, some of which were damaged by the quake.

“We are looking at many years to repair the damage done, which is on a scale with (Hurricane) Katrina,” Bill Glass said. “We have to repair or replace the Blanchard schools, the Cite Soleil clinic and the walls.”

Haiti Outreach Ministries has a standing contingency fund and
donations will be for immediate relief, “though rebuilding is looming
and enormous,” he said.

Bill and Linda Glass of Sumner returned from a mission trip to Haiti in December. Bill Glass, president of Haiti Outreach Ministries, and his wife had been on the phone since news of the earthquake broke.

These Haitian children are some of those who benefit from Linda and Bill Glass’s mission work in Port au Prince.

Workers add a third floor to the school in Blanchard, Haiti. The school is one of several that Haiti Outreach Ministries supports. Damage sustained in the earthquake is not repairable.

Bill Glass, president of Haiti Outreach Ministries, talks with Claudy Douchard, a first-year college student, during a mission trip to Haiti.

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