A Garbage Field Becomes A Home

God finds some unique ways to demonstrate His power!  For years, the field that set just off Highway 1 as you entire the village of Minoterie was a place to dump garbage. Now, instead of rusted tin cans and plastic rubbish, a beautiful building that 21 children call home sits atop its hard-packed, sandy dirt.  The project begun in 2014, began housing children in 2015 and is now complete.  Some outside plastering and painting yet remain. Its capacity is 64 which will be reached as funding permits.

Thank you God for being the Master of making something out of nothing!!

Help Is On The Way

Access to needed medical care is very limited in Haiti especially, in the rural areas that we serve.  The building pictured above is a 2-year old government-built medical clinic that has been empty since the day the construction crews left.  Just a few months ago, the Mayor of Cabaret (the region where we're located), approached Michael Sineus (our Executive Director) about operating the medical clinic.  So we will be accepting the keys to the building with the goal of opening this year!  We are busily pursuing equipment and funds to meet this goal. There is alot of other exciting news swirling around this project so be praying and be watching what God is doing!

In the meantime, we continue to serve our villages with mobile medical clinics with our teams.  This recent December trip was no different.  We hosted clinics in Belladere and Thomazeau.  In Minoterie, we did something different this time.  We went house-to-house to those who are not able to get out to a clinic site.  Over 300 people we served through all 3 clinics!

Even with the new medical clinic, we will continue to bring this vital ministry directly to the villages.


Scenes from our Mobile Clinic in Thomazeau
Top: Triage where patients are assessed
Bottom Left: Seeing the doctor
Bottom Center: Our Pharmacy
Bottom Right: A view of the whole clinic.  Its tight but it works!
On the left, you will notice the waiting room to see the doctor which was next to the Triage (not seen). At the back, is the doctor-patient area and on the right with the long tables is the Pharmacy.  The decorations were from Christmas.  This metal pole building serves as a community center, church and school when we are not using it for clinics.

Let's Play!!

Russ is returning to Haiti February 4 and is looking for a few specific donated items to take:

• 2 boxes of construction-grade large garbage bags. 
•  New Game Balls for the children at the orphanage: 5 basketballs, 3 soccer balls, 2 footballs and 2 kickballs. Must be new but flat for packing. They have a new court to play on!
• 2-3 hand-sized air pumps with needles for inflating. (Already got this covered!)
• 2 Bags designed to store the game balls.
• $40 to cover the cost of the extra bag to take these items.

Message if you can help.
russ.reallove@gmail.com
724-944-8343,  

Bringing Hope to Widows

Throughout the week as we traveled to the villages of Belladere and Thomazeau and around our home village of Minoterie, we sent out teams to visit the women and men of our Widows Mite Ministry.  These teams took food, clothing and other gifts and spent time ministering to them and pampering them.  Their visits included talking. listening, praying, washing feet, applying lotions and determining needs.  We wanted the widows and widowers to know they are loved!  Presently, we are serving 36 widows in 4 villages.

To learn more about our Widow's Mite Ministry, visit our website.

Loving On The Children

Sam and Russ returned to Haiti Dec. 27-Jan.3; joining 35 others from WV, VA, NC & SC.  This team was busy bringing the Real Love of Jesus to Haiti!  Alot of time was spent loving on the children! Singing, reading, coloring, playing ball or just sitting, filled the down times of our day and evening. We also hosted a VBS outreach in Minoterie, Thomazeau and Belledare which allowed us to share Jesus with hundreds of children in the villages.

In addition, our team (in whole or part):

• worked alongside our Haitian construction crew in the building of a basketball court in front of the orphanage and painting
• ministered to prostitutes in Minoterie 
• worshiped with local villagers that gather every Wednesday night on our ministry campus, hosted a New Year's Eve worship service and worshiped with Mission of Hope Church on Sunday Morning
• trained our church plant leaders to share Christ and disciple new believers
• hosted a Christmas Party for the orphans and presented them with gifts.
• and enjoyed an afternoon at the beach

Clockwise: Christmas Party, VBS,  Beach   Mission of Hope Worship,  New Year's Eve Worship,   Basketball court,