A PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY: BUILDING A HAITIAN HOME
The beauty of the people, their hearts, and their country, always inspires us.
To love our neighbors as ourselves is always a shared blessing!
Our Peace Church Haiti Mission Team sponsored a fund-raising effort called “Haitian Home”. We offered the opportunity for church member participation to help fund a new home project for a Haitian family in the city of Mirebalais. This Haitian Home fundraiser is for the family of a young man that our Haiti clean water mission team has worked with for the past 5 plus years. Their current home and its living conditions are some of the worst we have ever seen. The roof is mostly made up of rough lumber, some sheets of corrugated tin and some tarps. We brought them a used tarp this past January, which was almost immediately put to use on the roof, as they have water leaks into their house everywhere. Plumbing in the house is nonexistent and electricity (when power is on) is limited to a couple of light bulbs in crude lamp sockets.
Over the last several years, his parents have begun the construction of a new home on their small city property adjacent to their existing house. The house will eventually have two rooms on the first floor and two rooms on the 2nd floor, as funds become available.
Thank you to all who contributed.
January 13th - 20th, 2019, 3 of our members joined with others for a week in Haiti working to help provide water-filter buckets to our neighbors in the poorest country in our hemisphere. January 26th another member of the congregation joined a group for nearly two weeks, helping to provide people with eyeglasses. This second trip was cut short due to the unrest. These trips were organized through Ventures in People.