Haiti – April 2012
Date | April 10-17, 2012
Team Members | This team is made up of Union leaders and volunteers
Heather Willett, Allison Crews, Sara Vollink, Hannah Bredeweg, Jamie Guillaume, Lauren Heinz, Max Sieplinga, Erin Hollister, Justin Moe, RaeAnne Werner- Team Leader: Greg VanderWal.
Objective | Prepping for annual meeting at Boix Neuf location in St. Marc as well as coming alongside the local people to finish the roof over the common area where services are held, install electrical wiring and building additional classrooms.
A group from Union headed down to Haiti for a week to continue to help and support ABC’s relationship with the ministry EMEVI, (Evangelical Living Water Ministry). While they were there, they assisted in constructing a roof to expand their current church building and participated in a variety of other projects ranging in painting the [...]
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Today was our last full day in Haiti! It seems like the week has flown by and also at the same time that we all have all grown so much while we’ve been here. It has been an amazing trip!
So this morning we first stopped by the cement yard and picked up a bunch of [...]
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Today was such a blessing. We got to witness and join the Haitian church in worship! And, wow! Do they worship! Their full being and soul can be seen in their worship and it is wonderful to experience!
One highlight was that at the beginning of the service they had a group of children go up [...]
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Today was a little different than other days we have been here. Since it is Saturday we did not work at Bois Neuf because the Haitian workers would not have been there. So we helped with some projects around Pastor Marcel’s house. Some of us worked on taking out the knots in piles of mule [...]
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Today we headed out of St. Marc and back to Bois Neuf to continue painting the church and to continue working on putting up the steel tresses of the courtyard roof. We were able to get quite a lot done on the painting so it will be nice and new for Sunday!And again today we [...]
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Today was another great day in Haiti! We had a little bit of a late start this morning while we waited for Pastor Marcel to get some paint for a project we would be doing today. But during that waiting time our group had a really great conversation about the worship we witnessed last night. Here [...]
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Today was our first full day in Haiti. While we were waiting to figure out what to do, we took a little tour of the church and school and said hello to many of the school children. They were eager to give hugs and tell us there names. But soon they went back to class [...]
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Today a group from Union headed down to Haiti for a week to continue to help and support our relationship with the ministry EMEVI, (Evangelical Living Water Ministry). We are planning on helping construct a roof to expand their current church building since their ministry here continues to grow.
As we left the familiar world of Grand [...]
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