Monday Jan 15 2018

At LaHatte 4th and 5th grade class

Slip sliding while driving in the truck down the dry river bed. 

What an adventure on our first full day here!  :-)

Good evening to all the loved ones at home.  We send you all love and hugs and appreciate the prayers you are sending our way. God is good. 

We arrived Sunday afternoon and going through the airport and customs was the easiest ever. Praise God!! We organized our supplies for each school and unpacked at the compound. That night we went to St. Marc for church and thoroughly loved worshipping with our Haitian brothers and sisters. We are one in the spirit and Carter translated the message for us to follow along. 

Today was an early morning departure and a bumpy cargo truck ride on "River Bed Road" to LaHatte school. We were able to observe six (preK-6th grade) classes in the morning and enjoyed passing out some new school supplies to each teacher, helping to teach a few French songs with the instruments we also brought there. This is the most remote and poorest of all Mission Possible schools with approximately 90 students.  

Our afternoon focus was at the Mission Possible teacher institute where teachers in training and current Mission Possible teachers are attending each afternoon.  Members of our team have each prepared a 5-day unit intended to increase their knowledge in a content area and/or improve their teaching skills.  Today we found our "students" to be attentive and interested in what we had to share, and we look forward to our remaining days.

Love from, 

Sharon Newlove, Judy Shick, Patti Spiegel and Mary Jo Williams

Teacher Seminar

I talked with our team of teachers and they made it to Haiti. They are doing great and were getting ready to head to church this evening. Pray for their week of visiting schools and teaching our Haitian teachers. Once they have WiFi, they will continue to update this blog.

-Tracy, educational coordinator

Pastors' Seminar Going Strong

A message from David (internet is still causing trouble, but it will not stop the blog!) - 

We are busy, but everything is going great! Each day we start out by visiting schools and so far we have been to MPCA, Lanzac, and Chardene.  Herb was able to visit one of his students he sponsors. Then at one point Lynn looks at me and says "I think that is the girl we sponsor." We asked her name and sure enough it was her, so he was able to visit with her.  I have a great picture of her, but I can't send it thanks to our internet problems.

The rest of our time is spent at the conference, which starts at 3pm and ends at 8:30 pm.  Each pastor then teaches 5 times each night. The translators are amazing and are keeping up with the Americans really well.  We added to our numbers and had close to 300 participants tonight.   There has been amazing conversations about church, theology and our relationship with Jesus.  I will send a quick update tomorrow and then I'll have your husbands home on Friday!   Everyone is feeling great despite working and sweating hard!   

Blessings

Keep praying for us,

David

Pastors Seminar

Hi everyone this is Tracy Rath and I am posting here from Findlay because they are having internet problems at the Mission Center so they have been unable to post.

David said the Pastors' Seminar is going great. With at least 200 in attendance, the first day of the seminar has been wonderful and God is being lifted up.  Continue to pray for the rest of the seminar.  They send everyone their love!

Leadership 3

Today we attended the student and adult leaders graduation.  It was a great time of celebration with their closest friends and family.  Over 130 adults and students received certificates for completing the programs.  2 years ago they started learning about the importance of leadership and today they started their next journey... giving their leadership away to others.  Thank you to all who prayed for our leadership, we are excited to see them grow.  The rest of the afternoon we hung out the mission center and enjoyed some downtime.  Tomorrow we are excited to visit St Marc's church.   We are both doing well though.  Thanks for your prayers!

Leadership 2

Hi friends and family, just wanted to let you all know we are doing well.  Internet was down for most of the day.  Yesterday we visited 2 schools, Chardene and Dupin.  Jacob was able to meet 2 of his church's sponsor kids (pictures to come soon).  In the evening we attended the student leaders last gathering before they graduate.  It was a great time of celebration and prayer.  Today we will be attending that graduation.  Hope you are all doing well back home!

Leadership 1

Hello family and friends!  Sorry for not posting sooner, we had slower internet last night.  Yesterday we traveled to 2 of Mission Possible's schools; Lahatte and St Marc's.  We met with the directors, secretaries, and community agents to hear their stories, to see what they're excited about, and to learn about their concerns.  We also did a teamwork activity with some of the students called the Magic Carpet Game.  They were confused with the directions at first, but once they understood, they seemed to really enjoy the short activity.  Later that evening, we had many of our leaders come to the Mission Center for dinner and to learn about John Maxwell's 5 Levels of Leadership.  It was a great time of fellowship.  Please continue to pray for us as we travel to more schools today.  Pictures to come soon!