The Father's House Team arrived yesterday from Vacaville, California. They are a great team with lots of young energy. We are looking forward to having a good time together! |
Arise, Shine......Isaiah 60:1
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Welcome Father's House Team
Saturday, February 13, 2016
Fun Friday!
This was a week full of projects and fun with some chaos sprinkled in! The teams held a two day children's program Thursday and Friday. They had singing, stories, snack and tie dyed shirts. There were 175 present to do a shirt. They dyed the shirts on the first day and then the teams had to hang them all to dry on the roof in time to give them to the kids to take home with them on the next day. It is for times like this that we are glad for the hot sunshine!
We also had some people painting the guest house not far from our campus, some assembled some furniture for the duplex at the Children's Village, while others are repairing the fence around the school.
Roy poured another section of the roof on the new elementary school and the students had a rousing three hour Valentine party at our school!
Welcome Teams!
Impact Kingston Team |
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Haiti ARISE Buzzing with Activity
We welcome a team that has not been to Haiti ARISE before - except for two of them. They are an energetic group of 14 of all ages. They are here to build the bunk beds for the first two homes at the Children's Village, work on the electrical system there and some of them are holding a dental clinic for the elementary school children. The clinic includes a teeth brushing demonstration and a fluoride treatment for each of them.
Lisa and Kathleen (from Red Deer), have been busy painting murals on the first house that will soon house parents and shortly after that, the first children at the Children's Village. Check out the pictures.....
Lisa and Kathleen (from Red Deer), have been busy painting murals on the first house that will soon house parents and shortly after that, the first children at the Children's Village. Check out the pictures.....
Trinity Lutheran Church form Brooks, AB |
Sixteen frames for the beds |
The youngest member of the team sweeping out the house at the Children's Village |
Friday, January 15, 2016
Technical School Kitchen
Goat Farm
There are a variety of grasses grown for the goats
The goat farm will raise quality goats that can be used for breeding for good goat meat and for teaching how to best raise a goat. There are 15 goats in it. The administrator for the goat farm and the gardens for Haiti ARISE is Berge, who is a university educated Haitian with a degree in agriculture and goat husbandry. He was educated in a city west of Grand Goave, but moved here once he was hired. He is always smiling and always on the move (on his bicycle) between the gardens on this campus and the goat farm.
A goat project will be started as well....a grade 4 girls (that are interested) will take a course on how to raise a goat and if she is interested, will be given two 5 gallon pails and a rope. The pails will be for water - one for her family and one for her goat. She will have the responsibility of feeding and watering the goat and hopefully her neighbors will notice that her goat is plump and healthy looking and will want to start doing what she is doing with their goats.
Selling surplus produce from our garden |
Haiti ARISE garden Berge getting a billy goat to pose for a photo
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Jacmel
This week started with a day trip to Jacmel. It is a beautiful city on the south coast of Haiti. To get there, we drove over the mountains--the scenery is breathtaking! We had a team here from Crossroads Church (Red Deer, AB). A couple of them were some of the speakers for the Pastor's Conference the previous week.
Jacmel has a very nice French colonial district with many tile murels and shops to buy hand painted souviners. We enjoyed a great lunch in a hotel that has been standing since 1880. We then went to another hotel over looking the ocean for coffee and on our way out of town, visited The Olive Tree Project - a maternity clinic that was founded and run by a young woman from Devon, Alberta. She does great work to help expectant mothers have healthy babies.
Jacmel has a very nice French colonial district with many tile murels and shops to buy hand painted souviners. We enjoyed a great lunch in a hotel that has been standing since 1880. We then went to another hotel over looking the ocean for coffee and on our way out of town, visited The Olive Tree Project - a maternity clinic that was founded and run by a young woman from Devon, Alberta. She does great work to help expectant mothers have healthy babies.
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