Monday, June 25, 2018

And Finally... Grade 13

While most of our kids are now finished school for the year, our grade 13 students will be writing their very difficult government exams this week.  It doesn't help that the World Cup Soccer is also happening at the same time -- makes it hard to study while the entire rest of the country is cheering on their favorite teams!
Our Grade 13 students, Phania, Magloire Iverlande in this picture
 and Delva in this one....
would greatly appreciate your prayers for them as they have tried to do just that as they prepare for these exams.  They will be writing them for most of this week.

As for the rest of the HOH kids -- it's summertime!  And one of the things the kids get excited about is Mango season.  There's nothing quite like a nice refreshing mango in the heat of a summer day...
 Another favorite treat is what we call "Ti Carol" little bags of frozen juice that Linda makes for them on occasion.  
 
If you look closely you can see some of the kids dancing when they got theirs!

Some have asked for an update on the health of the kids.  Seems like everyone is doing ok these days.  Here's an updated picture of the twins with Linda -- as you can see they have grown quite a bit over the past few weeks!
  Here are a few more things to hold up in prayer:
  • Please continue to pray for Jenny as she is trying to finish up the preparations for our Summer camp program for the HOH kids as well as kids in our local community.  She'll be heading to Haiti in about a month and has a lot to finish up before then.  
  • Pray for Jn Daniel as he is in Port-au-Prince this week trying to get some work done on our vehicle so it will be able to transport Jenny and the team from Miami when they come the end of July.
  • Pray for Linda, the young leaders and staff as they have extra work to do to keep everyone busy now that school is out.  Pray also as she is setting up the logistics to feed everyone at our summer day camp this year.  Other years we've felt bad sending the community kids home at noon so we can feed our kids.  This year we are going to try and feed everyone one meal during the day.  As you can imagine -- feeding around 300 people every day is quite the challenge.  
As always, we are so grateful for your partnership, support and prayers for us.  We know we couldn't do all of this without your help, so thanks for enabling us in this ministry.

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Grade 9 exams this week

Just a quick update today about our 4 grade 9 students.  Thank you so much for your prayers for the grade 6 exams last week.  Now those students are just awaiting their results.  Now it is our grade 9 students.  They will be writing the rest of today and tomorrow.  They'd love your prayers as well.  Here they are...
Jamesley, Dieunika, Carlos, and John Wisly

You might remember Jamesley from several months ago when he was having such a hard time with bleeding.  We are so thankful for the Hemophiliac factor we had donated to us that has not only enabled him to get up and walking (albeit with crutches) again, but also allow him to return to school and be ready to write his exams.  

What a joy and privilege to bring hope to young people like these 4 here.  Thanks for your part in giving them a hope for their futures through education!

Tuesday, June 05, 2018

Exam Time!

It is that time of the year again.  Today 4 of our kids start their government exams.  This week it is the grade 6 exams and here are our 4 girls who are writing them...
 Valandjina, Nitchy and Wislinda will write in the mornings.
Altagrace will write in the afternoons.

We received a surprise this week with Valandjina being accepted to write the exams.  She was in grade 5 this year, but did so well the school skipped grade 6 and are having her write the exams.  She is a really strong student and if she passes these exams she will move on to secondary school next year!

We'd love it if you would remember to pray for these young ladies. They must pass these exams in order to move on in their schooling, so it's a pretty big deal for them.

Some people have asked for a few updates on people we've introduced you to in the past.  So, here goes...
  • All of our babies are doing well at the moment.  I don't have a recent updated picture of the twin girls, but we'll try and get that before the next blog update.  
  • Oliana is hanging in there.  Not a lot of change there, but she isn't worse so we are happy with that.
  • Manouchka, the mother who had suffered burns is doing really well.  She has healed completely and her children are doing well. 
    She will be leaving the HOH this coming weekend to go and try to build a new life with her children.  She will leave with the baby and the young boy will stay with us until she has located a place to live with both of them.   You could pray for her as she makes her way forward in life.
As promised, here is another bookmark signaling a need that we have at the HOH.  The last need we emphasized was for a one time need.  This time we'll show you an ongoing need.  We are short on our budget needs by $4,000/month, this mostly falls in the realm of salaries to pay our staff.  I know that sounds like a huge shortfall and if we were looking for it from one person, it would be.  But the ministry of the HOH has always been possible because of the team of people we have who put their resources together to bring hope those who come to our home.  So, when you look at it broken down -- we need 200 people to send us $20/month.  Maybe even that isn't possible for you to help with, and in that case can you pray with us that God would provide this need?  Here is a bookmark to help you remember this need...

We appreciate each of you and your partnership in this ministry.  Thank you for your part.  We don't share these needs lightly.  We know many of you are helping us out way beyond your abilities.  But we do feel it's important for you to be aware of the needs so you can pray with us as we watch God provide for them.

(I did realize that I made these bookmarks for a trip to the US, so I failed to put the Canadian address for donations on there.  Here it is:  Extreme Response Canada - PO Box 1013 - Simcoe, ON - N3Y 5B3)