The Container has arrived!!!!

Abbotsford Vineyard Church, along with Roger's Food, sent a container to H2H Valley loaded with flour, school supplies & gifts...among others things :)

The container was delayed but has now finally arrived!!



The kids at H2H unloaded it & stored the contents in an empty container...which was especially hard when they started seeing their names on presents!!!







Kakina, our future model & singer, poised for the camera :)



The team from Abbotsford Vineyard Church arrived... to empower the church members to be the hands & feet of Jesus Christ to their neighbourhood. In last years flour/rice give-away the Pastors worked together to serve their churches. This year it was the church members turn to be the salt & light. Over 40 churches partipated. Each family within the churches received a bag of rice with the encouragment to bless others...the encouragement even went as far as asking them to consider blessing their "enemies".

Piles of flour were made & each Pastor came to pick up their churches portion.







I know you shouldn't have favorites but here was my favorite Pastor... hard to resist a man in shades :)



The team piggy back on the flour idea and gave each child who lives at H2H Valley a bag of toys and the kids went out into the community to blessed the neighborhood kids that have even less than them. It was a big hectic at times but an amazing experience for our kids.



Here's Eliyou, our youngest boy, shyly giving away a toy:



After the team left Pastor Luc decided to take it a step farther and went out into the community with some of our older boys and gave a bag of flour to each house surrounding the H2H compound...each house which isn't connected to a church as they were involved in the flour give-away with the pastors. What a great experience for our older boys!





Here are some of our neighbors that received the flour:













Starting later today we have 3 back-to-back teams & I'm flying home with the third team on July 15th so it's going to be a busy month!! Please pray for my health & some extra energy :)

Notremene's House is Finished!

The renevations were actually finished a few weeks ago but I've been too busy to spend much time on my computer. Here are the before and after pictures...

Front of house:









Inside the 2 room house:

















A peek out the back door:



Notremene sitting on her new mattress:



The new security system:



Pastor Luc & Notremene:



We were also able to give her a package of food, thanks to generous supporters who purchased "emergency food" through the H2H gift catalogue:





This was such a fun project to work on & there were many highlights...

- Seeing the kids at H2H excited about helping...carrying blocks, cleaning, painting, buying food, etc.

- Seeing the workers (brick layers, roofers) donate their time, despite being needy themselves.

- Seeing the generosity of people back home (YOU!) when given the opportunity to help someone in need. James 1 says; "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." Thank you for your generosity, not only financially, but spiritually too. I'm going to go out on a limb here. Some of you who donated to this project aren't "Christians", or you have become stale and have become "Sunday Christians" - what does that mean for you? It means God is using you despite your stubbornness...imagine what He could do through you if you gave your life to Him completely!! I'm not claiming to be an expert (& am far from perfect myself) but if this is tugging at your heart please email me so I can tug the rope a bit harder :)

I'll get off the limb now & back to Notremene's house...

When the renovations were completed we had a prayer service at her house to celebrate the completion of the project & encourage those who live around her house to come out to church. It was a tough hike for some but the service was great! Here are some pictures:







Thank you again for your support - may you be blessed as you are a blessing to others!!

Happy Agriculture Day Haiti!

May 1st was Labour Day / Agriculture Day for Haiti and the H2H school celebrated in typical Haitian style!!

They started with an assembly led by Principal Garry where the kids were educated on life skills (hygiene, relationships, etc) and then watched a Jackie Chan movie :)





The kids played on the playground...





...while the teachers made bouyon soup (a stew with goat meat, plantains, potatos, yams, sweet potatos, carrots, etc).









Even Principal Garry made his share of "boilles" (dough fingers they put in the stew):



The bouyon was enjoyed by all...including myself!

Boys will be boys!

Thanks to a purchase through the H2H Gift Catalogue we bought a garden hose for the compound this week. I never would have thought a hose would have brought so much excitement but it did...especially the "fork" that holds it!!



Ti-Moise tested the new hose by watering our "grass in progress"...



But he quickly realized the water pressure was strong enough to knock down the ripe mangos... that was the end of the watering & the start of an afternoon snack :)