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.  

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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

We met some of the most beautiful children and would love you to meet them!  No they don't live at Children of the Promise, but we do have cute children here.  These children live at Cross Roads Church in Cap-Haitian, Haiti.  This is the song they sang for us...

On January 3rd, we were given the opportunity to pick up a shipping container that we had been waiting to clear customs for nearly a month.  This container held 5 flats of food weighing 5,645lbs.  All of this food was sent from our church for 37 beautiful children.

These children live with a Haitian man, Pastor Bleu, and his wife.  For the last 14 years the couple has been living in their orphanage with the children, while also operating a church and school.  I asked Pastor Bleu why he does this and he shook off the question as if it is no big deal.  I knew that it is a big deal. For even living at COTP for 4 months has made me understand that it is hard living at work. 

Mid-November our church, Central Baptist, teamed with Kids Against Hunger.  Brian Mulder brought all of the supplies to our gathering space in the church, so that families could help pack food before and after church services.  To watch Central Baptist pack these boxes go to http://centralsf.org/missions



Pastor Bleu and his wife were thrilled to have so many meals for their children.

Considering I love everything school related, I couldn't resist asking Pastor Bleu to show me around his 3 story elementary school.

Their school educates over 500 K-6th students.  This is a photo of me in an empty Kindergarten class.  The school is on Christmas break till next Monday, so unfortunately I wasn't able to see the kids in action.