Web Sites for information - updated 26th Jan 2012

Youtube and Blog entries
A few teams have kept up blog sites and created videos of their time here in Grand Goâve, Haiti. Listed below are the links to these sites.

You will be able to see what other teams have seen and done in Grand Goâve. We hope these will encouage you, offer you an opportunity to pray for the Haitian people as well as see what you may experience if/when you come to Grand Goâve.


Pomona Baptist Church http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr9np2lgxyA

Winterpark Baptist Church http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBFVoAzIaPY
plus their second trip          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqG5p-fBs6I

Jersey Village Baptist Church http://www.jvbcserves.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html

Cliff Temple Baptist Church http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpQptx0BgnM

Cooperative Baptist Fellowship January/February 2011http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nGu2Ab1_Hw

Gilbertvile -Cooperstown Haiti trip video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3P2ZgYG5QM

Don Anderson's trip - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ma359xGO7-U

Larry Hovis, CBFNC Executive Coordinator, Admore Baptist North Carolina http://revlaurabarclay.blogspot.com/2011/09/discipleship-stewardship-and-missions.html


Flip Moore part of the Oakland/Providence Baptist Church team Jan 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywN8yMCymqw


Instructional Videos
There are four videos that were created specifically for short term mission teams to help them prepare for thier visit, special thanks to Brandon and Nell Green for their work on those videos.

 Prayer Walk       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyvhlI3gQOY

 Kreyol 101        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FxzA2SbHKQ
 Cultural training http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZbid35O1VE
 Kreyol Dining     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDgCjHIk43w


Links
These web sites are general sites that are of interest associated with our mission here in Grand Goave

http://www.thefellowship.info/
www.haitihousingnetwork.com
http://texasbaptists.org/evangelism-missions/disaster-response/change-a-life/
http://www.edgeoutreach.com/
http://www.aguapure.com.do/
http://www.filterpurefilters.org/
http://winetowater.org/

Facebook links
CBF Ministries in Haiti Facebook http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/CBF-Ministries-in-Haiti/187753287943885

{if you have served with CBF/ABC in Grand Goâve and would like your blog / youtube added, please contact Mike and Brenda Harwood, thank you}
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News ending Sunday 22nd May

Prayers

• Continued safety for all our workers.
• Travel mercies for the teams that are coming this week
• The Lord's grace on the SHG program
• Prayers that school will start this next week and the children and the teachers will be able to catch up on the work lost over the last 5 to 6 weeks!
• Prayers we don't lose our patience with the goats that are temporary residents of our yard - they don't like being here and tell us, loudly and frequently. Aparently they don't sleep, so why should we!

What is in the news?

This week we had a few firsts :

On Sunday was joined our church young men and women with the competition finale to find the "Mr" and "Miss" of Grand Goave. It was the first type of competion that they have had - it was very well presented and we hope that it will encourage them to do more of these types of events and include more of the community.

Our medical team were picked up in the new HiAce minibus; air conditioned and smoothly driven. While the team may have been a bit "compact" with their luggage the ride was a lot more pleasant than the Canter rides have been.

We were able to offer our team burgers cooked on a real BBQ, with real charcoal! This BBQ has been a long time coming. Jeanson is a natural at the BBQ - this was a first for him, cooking on a BBQ, and the burgers came out great.

Jenny's medical team, from First Baptist Asheville, included two dentists - this too was a first; along with the rest of the medical team, they did an awesome job this week. A clinic every day of the week.

Can you pray for inanimate objects? We need our cement mixer to be fixed - the unit was not turning the mixer and it was "looked at" locally and now has been taken to Port-au-Prince to be fixed! We hope to get it back early next week.

The school construction has preogressed. The "look" will not change much for a few months, as the team are now completeing the crepisage / stucco work on the second set of rooms; classrooms 7 to 13. While that is going on we are still in discussion with the school council on the expections of the Administration building.

We need to wait for the school year to end at the end of July to allow us to move all the contents of the current Admin building into the classrooms, then we will be able to asset strip it and knock it down; before rebuilding.

Photo Gallary

These two photos show the classroom progress - top photo is classrooms 7,8 & 9 with 10, 11 & 12 to the left. The second photo is classroom 12 with the single classroom 13, just after the roof pour.

The BBQ and the new "Best Chef" - cooking at the volunteer house

The medical team from First Baptist Church Asheville - what a great team. They blessed Haiti by their service.

Not sure who is happier - us or the new owners of the goats. The photo was taken as we distrubuted five goats to the community of Norgas and Mt. Sinia. Four goats left to purchase and distribute. Thank you so much to the North Stuart Baptist Church for the gift of the goats.

News ending Sunday 8th May

We start with our prayer requests. These are most important to us, not least as you will see below; because our prayers are being answered.

• The local political situation. We still have an unresolved Deputy election, here in Grand Goâve. The first result was overturned, the second result proved to be fraudulent, now we have 2 factions in town fighting over who should be the elected Deputy of the Grand Goâve area. During the dispute we have seen road blocks, stone throwing, electricity power outages and reports of gun shots. The schools in the area are closed for the pupils’ safety. This has now been going on for 4 weeks and there seems to be no resolution in sight. Please pray for local wisdom and recognition of the need to compromise.
• A medical team from Ashville is due to arrive on Saturday 14th May. This will be the first full medical team of the year and our first to include dentistry. Please pray for their preparations and for their mission week as we seek to use their skills and expertise in Grand Goâve.
• Continued strength and peace as we strive to conceive and work for God’s Will for Grand Goâve.

 

Answered Prayers
As you will see below the photos tell their own stories. We have been blessed to witness many answered prayers this last two weeks. God is Good.

Goats
We are in the process of buying and distributing 18 pregnant goats to families in Temple Baptiste Church and its 3 Satellite Churches in the mountain villages in Grand Goâve.  The church council has made up the list of the 18 recipients. The only stipulation to being given a goat is that the goats be allowed to keep reproducing. One goat form each recipient family will then be given back to the church next May to be redistributed to other church families so the goat project will be self sustaining. Our grateful thanks to our home church North Stuart Baptist Church, who’s youth raised enough money for 9 goats and whose mission committee doubled the gift to 18 goats.

Our Kitchen
It is finally completed with fitted cupboards. As Grand Goâve can be quite a dusty town and with having no glass in our windows to keep the dust out; a kitchen which now has cupboards to store food and sundries is a blessing and really appreciated.

HiAce

Our future mission teams will no doubt appreciate our brand new air conditioned HiAce which will be able to take them to and from the airport in some comfort. It has only taken 6 months to arrive!

SHG training
Our Self Help Group leaders came to Grand Goâve to train interested people in becoming facilitators for SHGs. We were able to see the training sessions and be encouraged by the interested reception of the Self Help concept in our area.

Well Repair

We were able to witness 4 of our specially trained well workers, repair a local well. This is a positive step forward Haitians being equipped to perform the work themselves and to charge the local rate, instead of waiting for an NGO (Non government organization) like CBF, to come along eventually and repair it for free.

Comfortable chairs
Mike’s mother warned us that comfortable chairs are not a luxury but an essential to missionary work. How right she was. After months of hard seats, we have finally comfortable chairs to relax in. Mike has made them himself but thanks again to North Stuart Baptist Church for encouraging us to spend some of their mission money to Grand Goâve on ourselves. The chairs are based on the Morris design chairs, found on the internet.

Church rebuild plans
We had a visit from Rod and Gerald, from the Texas Baptists - they were able to discuss the possible design of a new Temple Baptist church. Part of the discussion was a new construction method that uses no steel, at all, bur uses fibreglass i nthe concrete and fills the blocks with cement to make the reenforcement through out the wall.

We are building a test wall - many hands make light work.