Results of Trip to North Haiti

Thanks to all who prayed for our trip to north Haiti.

Here is a summary of what God accomplished during the trip, and some of the hardships we faced. A more detailed account and some pictures will be posted later!

What God accomplished through us:

1) We trained 148 chaplains, administrators and coaches and visited and did additional training for all of the schools we started teams in this past spring and summer in North-east Haiti and North-west Haiti. In total we trained leaders in 54 schools!

2) We started and trained 11 new teams, and gave them enough soccer equipment to get started.

3) Two girls, one of whom was pregnant at a young age trusted Christ in Limbe.

4) I shared the story of how I was shot at two schools and then Jean Paul shared the Gospel with the children. At one school dozens of children came forward to trust in Christ and gave their names to a local pastor who will follow up with them.

5) We re-started a regional committee in Limbe with 4 schools.

6) We distributed over 5000 Christian books to 23 new schools and several schools already in the program.

Challenges:
1) Flat tire on the first day
2) Ronald felt sick the second day
3) Some of the people we invited did not show up for the trainings
4) One of the Pastors who we work with had a kidney stone and was in great pain. I left the training that morning in the hands in Ronald, Sylvain and Jean Paul and rushed him to a hospital about an hour away.

5) A box of 26 soccer balls was stolen from a store room at one of the churches
6) The roads were so rough that it broke the metal frame we have on the back of our truck in several places and we had to get it welded.

7) On our final leg back I was tired and let a friend drive who was not familiar with the road. We hit a speed bump going quite fast with 4 passengers in the back and actually broke the metal supports of the seat!