If you’re wondering where your investment in Hope in Haiti goes, please watch this video! Praise God for all He’s doing in our friends in Haiti!
-Tony
Update: Lourdjina
In the neighborhood near our sponsored school in Nan wo, Haiti is a young girl named Lourdjina who was born handicapped. To read more about her, click here.
Lourdjina (looJEEnah), the little handicapped girl whom God blessed with a stroller though a friend of ours, is doing well. We were able to visit her again during our January trip to talk to her and her parents. Lourdjina is almost two and has cerebral palsy, it appears. She definitely knows her mama, papa, and now me, as I visit her each time I go to Nanwo. I am delighted to see that her parents are using the handicapped stroller we brought, as Lourdjina cannot support herself in any way. Her mama brought her to church for the first time all dressed up pretty with ribbons in her hair. May we continue to be the hands and feet of Jesus. Pray for Lourdjina and her family to know Jesus and walk with Him well.
-Dixie
Answer to prayer: Generator
Thanks to the Lord providing through the generosity of a handful of you who read this blog, the church and school Hope in Haiti sponsors in Nan wo, Haiti now has a quality, diesel-powered working generator!
On our recent January trip to Haiti, we were able to pick one up in country and surprise some of the church leaders with this blessing. Without a generator, they have been unable to use some of their instruments for praise and worship, and the hard of hearing have had to lean in close to hear anything on Sunday mornings. Additionally, the lights around the church and school campus have been dark in the four months they have gone without a generator.
In their joy, the church leaders fired up the Honda unit at 4:30 in the morning so that they could hold a prayer and praise time with the aid of lights… and amplification, to our team’s slight annoyance. But the fact that they now have the generator they have been praying for made the extra noise an opportunity to praise God.
Thank you Jesus or providing!
-Dixie
Student Spotlight: RoseMicaelle
In the heat of the afternoon, when all the other children have grown tired of jump roping and gone home to their houses around the valley of Nan wo, ten year old RoseMicaelle Joachin looks around at the empty school building and the passing motorbikes bustling down the dust village road and sighs. She doesn’t go home because, well, this is home for now. Pastor Louinet, the school superintendent, agreed to take RoseMicaelle, her father, and her three siblings in and house them in a windowless corrugated metal shack behind the church a year and a half ago after her mother left them for a life in the big city of Port au Prince. Today, as everyday, RoseMicaelle is in charge of cooking for her dad, two brothers and sister, so she draws water from the well and begins preparing the rice and bean sauce for tonight’s dinner, thinking about her life and her future.
As much as she loves school, RoseMicaelle’s real passion is in creating beauty. She loves to paint the girls’ nails, thinking about what it would be like to fix ladies’ hair and give manicures. And although she’s never sewn anything, her biggest dream is of one day being a seamstress, custom tailoring, designing, and creating beautiful clothes. If only she had the money, she would buy the finest threads in the most brilliant colors and create masterpieces! But that is a far-off dream for a 3rd grader in a rural corner of Haiti trying to be a student and a substitute mother.
RoseMicaelle realizes her need for Jesus now more than ever. She thanks Him for doing so much for her, providing a house, food, schooling, and life itself. Her understanding of God leads her to praise Him and obey Him. Soon after the 2010 earthquake, her father found salvation in Christ, much to the chagrin of her voodoo-entrenched extended family. They rejected him and his young family, putting them out on the street and provoking RoseMicaelle’s mother to leave them for better surroundings.Would you like to be a part of the difference God is making in RoseMicaelle’s life? Rosemicaelle is one of the literally hundreds of students at Hope In Haiti’s schools who are not sponsored. If you would like to take of the cause of this beautiful girl, write info@hopeinhaiti.org and tell us you want to sponsor Rosemicaelle Joachin!
God bless you.