"Field Posts"

Here are a few people I caught on camera out in Chambellan. All the other pics of the trip are here .

I just got back from another week out in the Haitian Outback.  Only 74.9 miles (42.4 miles as the crow flies), but it took us 10 hours to get there, and 7 hours to get home.  Long trip over the mountains, but well worth it! We went out to Chambellan, Haiti ( GPS Waypoint and GPS Trip Track ), in the Grand Anse Department of Haiti with Crossroads Bible Church .  Crossroads has had this partnership with the Chambellan Baptist Church for the last 21 years through RMI.  Much has been accomplished in those 21 years! This trip was all about coming together to put a roof on the church. Crossroads Bible provided all the funds, and Chambellan Baptist provided most of the sweat! Crossroads thought they were putting a new roof on the old church.  But, the pastor at Chambellan pulled a fast one and built an entire new church just before the team’s arrival.  So, the new roof went on a new church!  It was exciting to see it come to completion.  Both US tea...

August 29th was the start of a new school year and a new school for Drew!  He started first grade at Cite Lumiere Christian School (which offers grades 1-12).  The school is less than a mile away from our house and this (or my four-wheeler) is his mode of transportation: He has been anticipating the start of first grade for a while for many reasons: the biggest being an English-speaking/American-style school.  While he enjoyed things about his Haitian Kindergarten, there were things he didn’t enjoy that much.  He really liked his teacher there, liked learning to write in cursive and learning to read French.  He had an excellent opportunity to learn Creole and he speaks so well!  On the down side, he found it hard to make friends there: he didn’t like that the kids always wanted to drink out of his water bottle and that they were always touching him.  Haitian school is a lot more monotonous; much more about memorization and recitation.  Drew w...