Different Experiences on the Mission Field

This Sunday, at our Haiti team meeting, we had a presentation from Roy and Dina Brent, who worked in Kenya for about thirty-eight years. Dina mostly talked about her Sunday School for young children. She described how there are many similarities to the children in America, more than you would probably guess. Children have an attention span of about their age. Children love to do activities. The children in Kenya loved to sing, while that is not generally the case in America. But because one of the major influences in people's lives is their experiences, the children of Haiti may not have some of the skills we expect them to have such as coloring. One thing Dina found interesting was the children of Kenya had never seen puzzles. They were something that they were never exposed to in their life. One thing Dina could almost assure of was that the children would have ball skills. You can make a ball out of rags and many children do. There are going to be some cross-culture issues that we are going to have to deal with. Language will be a big problem.

Earthquake to Cholera

Directly after the earthquake in 2010 (well ten months after the outbreak in Haiti), there was a very large and disastrous outbreak in Haiti. It was caused by Nepalese peacekeepers who controlled the water supply. The water supply was contaminated because a human waste disposal site was improperly managed. This outbreak took a huge tole on Haiti. It affected one in every twenty Haitians and killing 9,000 people. The number have began to significantly decrease after 2014.

 

Les Cayes

Hi everyone. This is the blog for our short term mission trip (STM) next summer. We are very excited to go and serve the Lord in a much different area of the world.

We will most likely be working with disabled children in Les Cayes. Les Cayes is a beautiful sea port city. It is Haiti's fourth largest city and annually exports sugarcane, coffee, bananas. etc. It is home to large waterfalls and other signs of the beautiful Caribbean. 

We are partnering with the Christian Education Center for Deaf and Handicapped Children. We hope to touch to lives of the Haitian children!