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By Mary
McCarty, Staff Writer Updated 11:13 AM
Wednesday, January 13, 2010

The connection was shaky, barely audible, but it sounded like music when
Wilson Cohoon of Bellbrook heard the voice of his friend Pastor Joel Beaucejour
in Leogane, Haiti, after several failed attempts to get through.

“Joel, how are you?” Wilson asked.

“We’re alive,” Beaucejour replied.

For more than 20 years Cohoon and his church, Emmanuel Lutheran in Kettering,
have supported Beaucejour’s work in his native Haiti through the Emmanuel
Christian Mission compound which houses two orphanages, a school, and a church.
Cohoon is now director for the Caribbean ministry of Children of Promise
International, a Christian relief agency with world headquarters in Centerville.

Wilson spoke to Beaucejour after the third shock from the 7.0 magnitude
earthquake. Leogane is 25 miles from the quake’s epicenter, the Haitian capital,
Port au Prince.

The orphans were all safe, Beaucejour reported, but the church building
sustained heavy damage. Cohoon feels grateful it wasn’t worse. An Emmanuel
Christian Mission staffer was scheduled to pick up a check from Children of
Promise International later this week. “Thank God they didn’t send him Tuesday,
or he might have been in town when it hit,” Cohoon said.

After speaking with Beaucejour, Cohoon was able to reach his wife Rose in
Ottawa, Canada, where she is undergoing chemotherapy treatment for leukemia. The
couple’s two youngest children — their daughter Othmar and son J.J. — are with
her, while older son J.L. attends school in Toledo.

Cohoon travels to Haiti frequently but doesn’t know when he’ll be able to
return. “Why did this happen to them, when they’ve already suffered so much?”
Cohoon asked. “The cost of food and fuel and running things will increase
dramatically. We have to pray that somehow we can see the Lord’s hand in this.

Cohoon’s prayers this week begin with a simple plea: ‘Lord, these are your
people.’”

Donations to help the Emmanuel Christian Mission can be sent to Children of
Promise International, 6844 Loop Road, Centerville 45459.

Contact this reporter at [email-masked].

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hello there,

i am very happy
the fact that you guys have a way to find out what how the people of Emannuel,s
church are ok, bless the name of the Lord. however, what i would like to ask is,
if there is any way to contact pastor joel again. please ask him if my mother
and my little sisters and brother are ok. my mother's name Roselaure
Elcide.please contact pastor Joel see if he can contact my mom and if there is
any way to contact me at (973)752-6713 or 973-3927647 or at [email-masked]

cleeve j. pierre
12:02 PM, 1/13/2010

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