On My Way!

Good Afternoon!  I, Jenny will be hitting the road today to start my journey down to the HOH.  As you can imagine, we all are quite excited.  I'm excited to see my large family once again and they are excited to have me come.  They have spent days getting things ready for me, from the car to pick me up to getting my room ready to stay in.  Makes me feel special and gets them very excited waiting for my arrival!

We'd love it if you prayed for us over the next few weeks.  For health and safety in travel for myself and also for the team from Miami who is coming to join us.  Pray for a great time with the kids, staff and Linda.  Pray for a fruitful, fun and fantastic week of camp with the 300 kids and youth registered.

I won't be updating the blog again until I get back as the internet never seems good enough for me to do it from down there.  But I will be regularly posting on the House of Hope Facebook group.  If you haven't joined, it's not too late, you can still find it by following this link:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/houseofhopehaiti1/ and asking to join.  

Some people have let me know they are not on facebook but would like to receive these posts as well.  I have started an email list and while I likely won't be able to send every post, I will try to send an email as often as I can.  So, just let me know if that's better way for you to keep in touch.

A New Way to Keep Connected

Good morning to you all.  We have been working on another way to keep connected with our friends and partners.  We've wanted a way that was a bit easier than sitting down and writing a blog and also one that was a bit more private. 

So, we have started a "Closed" Facebook group called - House of Hope - La Pointe, Haiti.  Because it is closed people can see it, but have to have permission to join.  We hope to be able to post our news, needs and prayer requests there with more regularity than we are able to do with the blog.  But no worries, we will continue to update the blog as we have been doing.

If you are interested in joining this group on Facebook, you can follow this link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/houseofhopehaiti1/ it will send me your request and I can add you as a member.  In an effort to maintain some privacy and intimacy in this group with regards to our big family's news, I will be checking out the member requests carefully.  If you notice I haven't approved you yet, or if you want to add some friends of yours that we might not know personally, please send us an e-mail as well to make some introductions.

We so appreciate each one of your, our partners and look forward to sharing more with you through this group.

Thanks for your continued prayers for Haiti.  Our boys in PAP say it's much calmer and more back to normal in their area today.  Internet communications in the area where the HOH is located is not working this morning, so I have not heard directly from Linda today.   But the boys were able to call her and all is well there.  We appreciate your continued prayers for the weeks ahead and the events that are planned for them.

Our Poor Haiti...

Greetings to you all.  I'm sure some of you have heard of Haiti's unrest on the news.  We wanted to let you know all of us are doing ok for the moment.  The unrest rarely reaches out as far as where we are located, so in that sense the HOH is fine.  But our young men are studying in PAP and several others were there getting errands done for us.  They are fine, staying put and waiting it all out.

We'd love it if you would pray for the issues in Haiti. 

• Pray for wisdom for the leaders and for calm for those causing the unrest.  
• Pray for safety for our boys in PAP and that our boys who need to get back up to the HOH are able to do so in the coming days.
• There are many people from all over Haiti who were in our town for the yearly spiritual life conference.  They need to travel back to their homes tomorrow, pray for their safety and that they'd be able to get back home again.
• My (Jenny's) trip to Haiti is scheduled to take place in 2 weeks!  Pray for calm to return so I can make it in and up to the HOH safely.  I am traveling with a young lady from the US and a team from Miami will be joining us the next week.  Pray for wisdom for all of us involved and that we'd be able to make the trip.  The kids at the HOH have been waiting for this trip all year!
• Summer Camp/VBS is coming up in 3 weeks.  We have almost 300 kids/youth signed up to come and we have almost finished all the preparations.  Pray that we'll be able to get there, get the food supplies we need, get the team there and all the supplies.... and that we have a great time learning from God's Word and having fun together.

Our kids enjoyed being involved in the local conference this past weekend.  They love joining in the throngs of other kids from all over Haiti and learning new songs and stories.  We will be singing the songs for the entire year ahead!  

Linda and the kids enjoying conference...

 

  

We also received a number of items from various groups and individuals in Miami on the latest boat.  All of them will be helpful in the upcoming weeks with our visitors and upcoming day camp.  Here are a few pictures -- you can see by the smiles on their faces -- everything was a big hit!

 

 

We are so grateful for the number of ways our partners support us in this work.  We appreciate each one of you.  Thank you for your part!