We were very encouraged by a visit from Jim Compton and Bob Spicer of Bible Fellowship Church this past weekend. They both left their jobs and their families for 5 days to come and learn more about our work here and plan a future visit from a larger team from Bible Fellowship.
We could not travel to central Haiti as we had hoped to because the bridge connecting the north of Haiti to the south was destroyed by the hurricanes and has not yet been rebuilt.
So we showed them around Port-au-Prince and visited Ft. Jacques where we held a soccer tournament this summer.
On Saturday morning we had a meeting with the Executive Committee of AIS Haiti and invited one of our leaders from Verettes to come and explain the needs of one of the schools there. We are thinking this is where we will bring a team early in 2009.
While they were hear they helped us fix up the house of one of our church members that got flooded from the hurricanes. They even donated enough money to put a new roof on it so that they don't get soaked from the next storm.
Of course we talked a lot about our plans for the year and how we hope God will use us. The biggest projects we have in the next 12 months revolve around training:
Training of young entrepreneurs in how to write a business plan, get financing and start a small business with Young Americas Business Trust - Haiti (YABT-Haiti) for short.(Oct. 15-25, 2008)
TREC 2008-2009 with Ambassadors in Sport: This will train our Haitian leaders how to train other Haitians in Sports Ministry. (Dec. 26, 2008 to Jan 4, 2009
AIS Haiti leadership Training: During this training the Haitian leaders we trained in TREC will train other Haitians in how to start their own sports ministries in their schools and churches.
We were overwhelmed by their interest and desire to help and encourage us in our ministry and look forward to when the entire team from Bible Fellowship will come alongside us for a week of ministry in 2009.
We could not travel to central Haiti as we had hoped to because the bridge connecting the north of Haiti to the south was destroyed by the hurricanes and has not yet been rebuilt.
So we showed them around Port-au-Prince and visited Ft. Jacques where we held a soccer tournament this summer.
On Saturday morning we had a meeting with the Executive Committee of AIS Haiti and invited one of our leaders from Verettes to come and explain the needs of one of the schools there. We are thinking this is where we will bring a team early in 2009.
While they were hear they helped us fix up the house of one of our church members that got flooded from the hurricanes. They even donated enough money to put a new roof on it so that they don't get soaked from the next storm.
Of course we talked a lot about our plans for the year and how we hope God will use us. The biggest projects we have in the next 12 months revolve around training:
Training of young entrepreneurs in how to write a business plan, get financing and start a small business with Young Americas Business Trust - Haiti (YABT-Haiti) for short.(Oct. 15-25, 2008)
TREC 2008-2009 with Ambassadors in Sport: This will train our Haitian leaders how to train other Haitians in Sports Ministry. (Dec. 26, 2008 to Jan 4, 2009
AIS Haiti leadership Training: During this training the Haitian leaders we trained in TREC will train other Haitians in how to start their own sports ministries in their schools and churches.
We were overwhelmed by their interest and desire to help and encourage us in our ministry and look forward to when the entire team from Bible Fellowship will come alongside us for a week of ministry in 2009.
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