Adam and Mateja: Barrett's in Haiti

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Monday, July 9, 2012

4th of July

In school we had a pretty normal start to our day. We made our own 4th of July fireworks and then dressed up in red, white, and blue.

At night we watched the movie Madagascar.

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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

12 Things Here and There

$355.00 Dorm Size Fridge
$2.00 Off Brand Mac&Cheese
$0.30 18oz. Coke Bottle
$24.00 Large Kraft Parmesan Cheese Shaker
$10.00 Gallon of Apple Juice
$8.00 Rice Cereal Large Box
$0.06 8oz. Bag of Purified Water
$0.25 Super Glue
$0.15 Clove of Garlic
$0.60 2.5lbs. of Potatoes
FREE Mangoes - Although we aren't grateful for their overabundance. We just try to avoid them and
the injuries they cause.

Monday, June 11, 2012

Central Baptist Youth Group

This week has been one of my favorite weeks in Haiti. Our church's youth group joined us for a week of service last Tuesday. They worked hard on many projects. Below are photos of some of them. They painted three large murals. Our youth pastor, Jason, drew the murals and then the team did a paint-by-number kind of thing.

The students helped the cleaning staff wash the baby clothes, clothe diapers, and blankets. At COTP all laundry is done by hand. No washing machines and no wash boards. Instead, the items is rubbed between your wrist. Each item is washed three times. This is easily the hardest job. The students were great sports about helping wash clothes.

The students also put up the walls to our first house. Before the youth group arrived all that was there was the foundation and the first layer of blocks to outline the walls. These students worked along side the construction crew to put up all the walls.

The student also spent a lot of time investing in the children at COTP. This was by far the most meaningful part of their trip. The children at COTP are so precious! The children love listening to stories, so everyone received the opportunity to read a few stories. The photo below is story time being interrupted by a baby lizard.

Feeding 60 kids is a lot of work. The team helped feed breakfast, lunch, snack, and dinner.

Four girls helped photograph our 60 kids for their formal pictures. Bi-monthly we post photos of our children.

Monday, April 30, 2012

Child Sponsership

Yesterday we were able to go to church with these beautiful children, while our home church in the States had a child sponsorship kickoff for them at Central. Already 18 of these children are sponsored.

The children pictured above are 5 of 41 children that live at Bethlehem Foundation in Cap-Haitian, Haiti. Unlike the children that live with us at Children of the Promise these children live in an orphanage. Bethlehem Foundation is their permanent home.

Pastor Brian has become friends with the director of Bethlehem Foundation, Pastor Blot, over his 3 visits to Haiti. He introduced us to Pastor Blot and we too have become good friends. Pastor Blot pastors a church and has a 540 student primary school. When the 2010 earthquake devastated southern Haiti the Haitian government was looking for places for orphaned children to live, Pastor Blot took in 37 of those children. Since then he has added 4 more.

Our church is teaming with 1-by-1 Haiti to sponsor his 41 children. The Bethlehem Foundation is completely Haitian staffed. The goal of this child sponsorship is to continue to have the Bethlehem Foundation Haitian run. The money will go toward schooling and feeding the children.

If you would like to get involved contact Pastor Brian at brian.mulder@centralsf.org

Pastor Blot and his wife with Adam and Pastor Brian

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Central's Youth are Coming to Haiti this June

Before coming to Haiti, Adam was a middle school youth director at Central Baptist Church. He absolutely loved his job, because we have amazing teenagers at our church. This summer 19 of his youth and 6 adults will be traveling from South Dakota to visit us in Haiti. They will be here June 4th-13th. When we received the list of those traveling down we were thrilled. Yesterday we were able to eat dinner with them and they are "jazzed" about coming down.

The youth is now working to fund-raise the cost of their trip. They are holding a Silent Auction on Sunday, May 6th. If you live in Sioux Falls plan on coming to support them. To find out which items are up click here.

In order to prepare for this adventure Adam's good friends from the church, Brian and Jason, came down to scope out the youth's activities last February. They came for only 4 days, but it was so nice to have them here. We can't wait to put the youth to work building on the new homes and doing one-on-one time with these precious children.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Tomorrow Night

Adam and I have been taking a 2 week break in Sioux Falls. Before we leave we get the chance to tell some of our experiences. If you would like to hear our stories from Haiti, tomorrow night we will be speaking with Adam's youth group.

Where: Central Baptist Church in the Worship Life Center
When: Wednesday, April 11th at 7pm

Friday, March 16, 2012

St.Patrick's Day Party

In preschool, I will take any holiday to put on a fet (party). Plus, St.Patrick's Day is a good one. In my hometown there is a parade right down Main Street after school.

The kids and I did the best to celebrate. I am pretty sure the nannies thought I was crazy when I explained that the children needed to wear green to school or they would get pinched by their classmates.

We enjoyed eating green Jello Jigglers. I am not sure if the students believed me when I assured them it was food, because most of them held it in their hand till the Jello began to melt through their fingers. We became sticky messes, but they loved squishing it.

Using their carpus (5th grade Science vocabulary) and thumb, the children made 3-leaf clovers. This is one of the only clovers that actually looks like a 3-leaf clover.

We also made rainbow crafts...

Then we headed to the playground for some bubble blowing and additional play.

I am blessed to be a teacher!
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Monday, February 27, 2012

Adam's Parents Came to Visit Us in Haiti

I love when people come to visit us, because we get to do things out of the ordinary. I always discover and see so much more. Here is a photo/video tour of their week.

Dan, Magen, and Adam at the ocean front.

The Cap-Haitian Cathedral's front stain glass window.

View of Cap-Haitian

Adam and his parent's at the beach.

Adam's mom working on puzzles with one of my students.

Going to see Samson and Mishou's new baby.

Hiking to the Citadelle.

Finally there.

Going to the bathroom at the Citadelle is pretty exciting. If your scared of heights I recommend using the toilets at the bottom before you begin your ascent, because there is only one choice at the top. But, if you happen to forget or just need to go again you will find yourself dangling in the air. Take a look.

San Succa Palace