Moms
Happy Mother’s Day to all you incredible moms! Here in Haiti, Mother’s Day is later in the month. It’s a really big deal here, too. Almost everyone in Haiti absolutely LOVES their mom – even teenagers!!! When I speak with the young people about Mother’s Day and why it’s so important to them, they tell me things like this: It’s the mothers that do everything for the children. They carry the baby for 9 months, go through terrible pain to give birth and some even die in the process. Moms sacrifice everything in order to keep their children alive. They work so hard to try to make a little money so they can feed their kids. Most fathers are not around, so we owe everything to our moms. Even the young people who were raised in orphanages, by relatives or as child slaves in someone else’s home have great love for their moms. They say that it wasn’t mom’s fault that they were sent away from home. She didn’t have money to take of us, so she found someone who would… I have a lot to learn from these kids!!!
St. Etienne
I had a great time this morning at the mission church in St. Etienne. This church is regularly out of bench space and they are working on collecting funds to build some more. One thing I love about this church is that they take the initiative to make things better and then the mission comes along side to help. Here are some pictures from this mornings service:
Pretty in Pink had her Bible in hand the whole service!
She started out seeming shy, but she was really anything but!
Getting sleepy...
Boss Fanès, the mission's director of construction, attends the church in St Etienne with his family.
Pastor Lex sharing with the church at St. Etienne
What's he doing? He's taking attendance. Each person puts one stone in the bucket and then he counts them. Smart, huh?
Super Reinforced School Construction
Chrislove enjoys a book with Paul Fallon
School construction moved right along this week. It’s so exciting to see walls and be able to identify rooms! A special thanks to Architect Paul Fallon who has been traveling to Haiti for 2-3 weeks each month specifically to help oversee construction at both Mission of Hope International and Be Like Brit. Each day he hikes up and down the mountain between the two sites, visiting with people along the way. Sometimes he even takes a moment or two for story time.
Now we can see even more than the reinforcing. There's hallways, doorways, rooms...
Sometimes construction stops to accommodate a food delivery.
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Office Workers
(clockwise from upper left) Marie Ange (bookkeeping), Renord (inventory control), Voltaire (school director)
Our staff at MOHI is like family to us. Pictured here are some of our staff that have office jobs.