Haiti Bible Mission: 2016 Recap

This year at Haiti Bible Mission has been full of character-developing challenges, amazing short term groups and projects that sought to encourage and strengthen the leaders we have here in Haiti.  Click through the vignettes below to see a month-by-month recap of what we have been doing here at HBM so far in 2016!  God is good!

January/February 2016
During January and February of this year, we were able to put metal doors on the school to increase the security of the school, and began renovating the school kitchen.  The start of this year included the purchasing of our second truck, which continues to be a blessing for the Mission and our teams.

March 2016
March brought with it HBM's first short-term group of the year. We had a combined crew from Florida and Texas, who put a roof on the house of Vialy Josuè's family in downtown Jeremie.  They also worked hard to build furniture for our new group facility.

April 2016
Moses Lake never fails to bring an excellent group to bless us at HBM, and they arrived in April to put a new roof on our church in Te Wouj.  The group also worked hard to give art lessons to our students at the Te Wouj School and at Madam Joel's orphanage in Chambellan.  The group finished out their time by building bunk beds for the children at the orphanage.

May 2016
With May came the completion of our new guest kitchen and gallery!  Our group from NNU was the first group to use both the kitchen and gallery, and it has proven to be an invaluable space for us at HBM, not just for groups but also for staff meetings and meals.  The NNU group made more desks for our school and took tarps out to our church community in Kolimo.  They also took the time to make a meal for our staff.

June 2016
June means the start of the summer months and the end of another school year at the Te Wouj School.  To help our students and staff celebrate the end of the school year, a group from Coulee City, WA came.  They created celebrations at Te Wouj, completed painting the inside of the renovated kitchen, made pizza for our staff and celebrate at Madam Joel's orphanage as well.  It was an exciting, celebratory finish to the school year!

Fall 2016
We at HBM have big plans for the fall!  Hanover, PA is hosting a basketball and golf tournament fundraiser in September.  This is the fourth annual Hanover Loves Haiti Event, and we pray that the annual event continues to grow.
The end of September also brings a Leadership Seminar led by David Wiedis of Serving Leaders Ministries for all of our missionaries and Stateside employees.  Pray with us that it will be a time of growth and team-building.

Summer Days at HBM

June 2016

June at Haiti Bible Mission brings with it the end of the school year, both for our students up at Te Wouj as well as many members of our staff.  We were privileged to welcome a team from Coulee City, WA this month to help celebrate with our students in Haiti.  
The children in Te Wouj ended up blessing the team with fruit from their own gardens as report cards were delivered and the party continued with a meal and games.  Please pray for a safe and fun summer vacation for our hardworking students and teachers!
The group also brought a party to Madam Joel's orphanage in Chambellan with streamers, toys and games.  The children loved it, and Madam Joel was blessed to see their service.  
The group finished out their week by spending an afternoon making pizza for our staff to celebrate the end of their school year also.  Thank you, Coulee City Team for making it a celebratory week!
Please pray that the staff will finish their exams strong and be refreshed for a summer of service.

If you wish to further partner with our school in Te Wouj, or our staff, please visit our website here.  We are purchasing some supplemental curriculum materials this year to meet the need of many students in the school by making it a God-centered place of learning.  If you wish to donate to the curriculum, click here and write "School Curriculum" in the comments section of the donation.  Thank you!

May Days at HBM

May 2016

It is May in Jeremie and that means that another group has come to serve with us!  We have just bid farewell to a group of university students from NNU in partnership with Mission Aviation Fellowship.  One week of their two week trip was spent with us at Haiti Bible Mission, and the team worked hard to build desks and paint our kitchen in Te Wouj.  The students also kept them quite busy with playing games from soccer, catch and tag to bubbles and nail polish.  

The group also had the opportunity to go to Kolimo and put tarps on the roofs of some houses that have suffered in the recent rainstorms.    They topped off their trip by making dinner for our staff one of their nights here!  It is a blessing to see the group and staff come together to eat, play and serve!

Our crew recently took the trip to Madam Joel's orphanage in Chambellan to install a water collection system, which is a easy, fresh source of water for the home.

April Showers in Jeremie, Haiti

April 2016

Jeremie has been blessed by a lot of rain in the past few weeks, but we at Haiti Bible Mission have stayed busy despite frequent rainstorms!  Last week, we said goodbye from a great group of people from Moses Lake, WA.  They worked around the rain and put in some long days at Te Wouj to complete a new roof for the Te Wouj Church.  Members of the community of Te Wouj loved being able to watch this group and even pitch in at times and help with the project.  
The group was also able to build bunk beds for Madam Joel's orphanage in Chambellan.  This is huge for the orphanage where twenty-seven children were mainly sleeping on the floor before this group arrived.  
The group also was able to teach staff, students and orphanage children how to paint in fun and inspiring art classes.  This was a big hit at each location, and the kids treasure their masterpieces.

A Month of Blessings

March 2016

2016 at Haiti Bible Mission is promising to continue to be an exciting and fulfilling season in Jeremie, Haiti.  We are blessed to say that every student in our school at Te Wouj has been sponsored!  If you are still interested, we encourage you to get involved!  Here are some things that you can do to stay involved with our staff and our school in Te Wouj:

• Sponsor an Emerging Leader.  Though the cost of sponsoring an emerging leader may be higher than that of a student, it pays for the leaders' salaries among many other things.  These are men and women that are already seeking to lead and serve in their communities.
• Sign up for our Sponsorship Newsletter by clicking the link to see our latest newsletter and then click subscribe at the top, left.  This will give you periodic updates of the school in Te Wouj and what our students are doing.
• Get on our waiting list.  If you would still like to sponsor a student, please sign up for our waiting list for the next available student by emailing our sponsorship coordinator, Hannah Rosario (hannah@haitibiblemission.org).

We loved having a sweet group of people come from Texas and Florida combined this month!  They served in many ways, from playing games with our school kids to building a roof on the house of one of our employees' families!  We miss them already!

Another special thanks to all who donated to help supply Haiti Bible Mission with a second truck!  This is a huge answer to prayer (both for us and our large groups), as it better equips us to transport group members and project supplies that are essential to our ministry.