David Dirrim
David served as director for the Center for Biblical Training from 2001 to 2009.
David and his wife, Sarah, have six children: Jezula Jonka, Raphael Dirrim, Liliane
Dirrim N'Gouan, Avery, Briana and Joseph Dirrim. Their family lived and worked in
Haiti since 1994, first with the Cap Haitien Children's Home, then at the CBT.
David and Sarah are currently living
in Ada, Oklahoma.
David's Message to the
Haiti Interest Breakfast,
September 22, 2008
September, A Month of Tragedies for Haiti
If you Google: Haiti/News/Images you will see evidence of the devastation of the
recent hurricanes. Hanna and Ike hit Gonaives and other areas with a 1-2 punch,
only 4 short years after Hurricane Jeanne destroyed Gonaives.
• One of our CBT graduates, Daniel Alexandre lost all his possessions – and he
lives on the 2nd story.
• Bellot Calice(a graduate of the first class and one of our Haitian directors)
ministers in Hinche where members lost homes, animals and gardens.
• In Ft. Liberte, Anilus Justin(from the 3rd class) huddled with his family in a
corner of their orphanage, while the storm blew tin off the roof of where they kept
the food for the orphanage children.
• Employees at the CBT had their beds ruined, in St. Michel crops and homes
were ravaged by storm, and many of the students had their homes damaged.
…And there is no Red Cross, no FEMA, no insurance.
Members of the church are going in to Haiti to try to help. Nancy Pharr and Donna
Ashley are in Cap Haitien now, distributing food, clothing and school supplies to
churches. Holly Eckhart, Melissa Jung and some other medical folks will be going in
tomorrow, to distribute relief funds. Eddie Randolph, Dale Huff and I will be going
in during the month of October to teach and can carry in relief funds as they are
given.
But a greater tragedy went on in September, and before and after the hurricanes:
• This morning women across Haiti threw a bucket of dirty water out their front
door before anyone left the house, to disperse the evil spirits waiting there.
• In thousands of homes, there is a little chair, a wash basin and a cup, all
unused, to welcome Satan if he should come looking for a welcome.
• Men, women and children are wearing rings, charms and bracelets to protect
them from curses and to fulfill contracts they have made with the evil spirits
• At the end of October, while American kids dress up for trick-or-treat, in Haiti
families will take food to graves to appease their dead relatives.
• Somewhere, a lady sings a song: “Thank you witch doctor for all…”
• Somewhere else on another day, at a waterfall or a mud hole worshippers
ask to be possessed by spirits.
And every day hundreds die after living an average of only 50 years, and they find
out just how badly they have been deceived.
So in 1997, the first class of the CBT began with 12 men. Now in the 4th class they
are carrying the gospel to Haiti. Churches are growing and maturing. We are
reaching out farther than ever before through our graduates and through printed
materials in Haitian Creole.
We need to continue to look at things with a spiritual perspective. In Ephesians 1:
17-21, Paul says:
We will never solve all the daily physical tragedies going on in Haiti. But being
blinded and enslaved by Satan is a tragedy that we can and are doing something
about. We need to keep our focus on those spiritual tragedies and victories, and
we need to educate men in that task.
David served as director for the Center for Biblical Training from 2001 to 2009.
David and his wife, Sarah, have six children: Jezula Jonka, Raphael Dirrim, Liliane
Dirrim N'Gouan, Avery, Briana and Joseph Dirrim. Their family lived and worked in
Haiti since 1994, first with the Cap Haitien Children's Home, then at the CBT.
David and Sarah are currently living
in Ada, Oklahoma.
David's Message to the
Haiti Interest Breakfast,
September 22, 2008
September, A Month of Tragedies for Haiti
If you Google: Haiti/News/Images you will see evidence of the devastation of the
recent hurricanes. Hanna and Ike hit Gonaives and other areas with a 1-2 punch,
only 4 short years after Hurricane Jeanne destroyed Gonaives.
• One of our CBT graduates, Daniel Alexandre lost all his possessions – and he
lives on the 2nd story.
• Bellot Calice(a graduate of the first class and one of our Haitian directors)
ministers in Hinche where members lost homes, animals and gardens.
• In Ft. Liberte, Anilus Justin(from the 3rd class) huddled with his family in a
corner of their orphanage, while the storm blew tin off the roof of where they kept
the food for the orphanage children.
• Employees at the CBT had their beds ruined, in St. Michel crops and homes
were ravaged by storm, and many of the students had their homes damaged.
…And there is no Red Cross, no FEMA, no insurance.
Members of the church are going in to Haiti to try to help. Nancy Pharr and Donna
Ashley are in Cap Haitien now, distributing food, clothing and school supplies to
churches. Holly Eckhart, Melissa Jung and some other medical folks will be going in
tomorrow, to distribute relief funds. Eddie Randolph, Dale Huff and I will be going
in during the month of October to teach and can carry in relief funds as they are
given.
But a greater tragedy went on in September, and before and after the hurricanes:
• This morning women across Haiti threw a bucket of dirty water out their front
door before anyone left the house, to disperse the evil spirits waiting there.
• In thousands of homes, there is a little chair, a wash basin and a cup, all
unused, to welcome Satan if he should come looking for a welcome.
• Men, women and children are wearing rings, charms and bracelets to protect
them from curses and to fulfill contracts they have made with the evil spirits
• At the end of October, while American kids dress up for trick-or-treat, in Haiti
families will take food to graves to appease their dead relatives.
• Somewhere, a lady sings a song: “Thank you witch doctor for all…”
• Somewhere else on another day, at a waterfall or a mud hole worshippers
ask to be possessed by spirits.
And every day hundreds die after living an average of only 50 years, and they find
out just how badly they have been deceived.
So in 1997, the first class of the CBT began with 12 men. Now in the 4th class they
are carrying the gospel to Haiti. Churches are growing and maturing. We are
reaching out farther than ever before through our graduates and through printed
materials in Haitian Creole.
We need to continue to look at things with a spiritual perspective. In Ephesians 1:
17-21, Paul says:
- I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may
give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him
better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order
that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his
glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us
who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he
exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his
right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power
and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age
but also in the one to come.
We will never solve all the daily physical tragedies going on in Haiti. But being
blinded and enslaved by Satan is a tragedy that we can and are doing something
about. We need to keep our focus on those spiritual tragedies and victories, and
we need to educate men in that task.
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