Happy New Year!
January 7, 2009
Hello All!
Sorry I haven’t posted for awhile! I have a few things to post so here I go!
1) Two trips are going to Ft. Liberte in April and May. There are a group of people meeting together each Thursday to pray about the trips. Here is the information about that if you are interested.
We will begin to meet this Thursday night at 6:45 pm in the Monroe Bldg. of Clarksburg Baptist Church to pray for BOTH spring trips. Anyone who is going or has family or friends going or who has a heart for Haiti, or just likes to pray is encouraged to attend. It will be very informal so if they need to arrive late or leave early it’s cool. This will be a time of prayer and scripture (no business). We will be meeting every Thursday night until both trips are completed. This week our focus will be Psalm 8 and God’s glory.
2) A group just got back a few days ago and here is an update written during the trip.
Everyone is reported to be well and working hard! With only one work day left the construction team will probably finish the house foundation tomorrow which the WV team will finish in the spring. Some will rise early in the morning before breakfast to go build a fence at “Johnny’s house” (the house we built for the DesAmore family last year). Even though it has been labor intensive especially in the heat, Chuck feels good about the progress on the fencing at the church farm. The orphan party was last night at the King Center and on Sunday they will have the big party where the team will serve hundreds of children a meal of rice, beans & chicken. It was a very busy day at the medical clinic. I’m sure everyone will have many stories to share with us next week. Pray that they can all stay well & return home safely! : )
3)Here is a really good site about Haiti that Joe Petroff found. http://www.haitireborn.org/
4) The trip dates for this year are :
February 5-14, march 12-21, April 3-10, April 13-22, and May 18-29.
5) Our main project this year is to build a house on the farm in Ft. Liberte and also to build a fence around the farm. The trip that recently got back finished the foundation for the house and hopefully we will have some pictures to put up soon of that. Two of the spring trips will hopefully be finished the farm project.
