Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Thank You to All of My Supporters



Dear Supporters,

Thank you very much for the generous support you donated toward my 2012 mission trip to Haiti. Thanks to the support from you and others like you, I was able to fully fund my part of the mission trip. I received so much support in fact that I was able to put more money towards our work projects that we conducted the two weeks we were there this past summer. Please accept the enclosed magnet as a small token of my appreciation.

Our projects this summer focused on improving the quality of living for the children living at the Cap Haitien Children’s Home (CHCH). Our main focus was preparing an area for a playground. A group after us was going to build the playground, but a lot of work needed to be done before construction of the playground could take place. Our group hauled over 10 dump truck loads of rock and over 8 loads of sand. We had to move the rock and sand by shovel and wheelbarrow. We also hired some Haitian men from the community to come in and rebuild the drainage canal.

One of the staff members at the CHCH started a church in a town about 45 minutes away. The town is Terrier Rouge. They worship in a small one room building that had no seats. Our group decided to build some benches for them to sit on during their weekly worship and Bible study gatherings.
  
There were many other activities that took place on our trip. If you would like to see more of the work that was completed on our trip, please visit my blog www.trevorinhaiti.blogspot.com. I would be happy to talk with you more in depth when I am home over Christmas if you are interested. Again, thank you very much for your support!

Sincerely,


Trevor Robinson

All Finished for Summer 2012

benches loaded to take to Terrier Rouge

benches in the Terrier Rouge church building


Building a stand for Milonia's mom

we are perfectly safe. . .


base for the spot light
Adding the spotlight to shine on the playground and basketball court

finished moving rock and sand, waiting for the playground

In the A/C at the airport to head home

the plane that took us back to Port au Prince

Monday, July 9, 2012

Singing during Worship

This video is of a group of guys that performed during worship this past Sunday. They were pretty good!


Days 11 and 12 - Worship and Sand

Where we worshiped on Sundays

The left side, CHCH kids in the back


Tony preaching on Joshua 9

We visited a preaching school after worship. They take in 12 students every three years.

The dinning hall and kitchen

the dorms

Hanging out at the preaching school

All the trees on the campus are less than 20 years old, they're huge

The kids look after the younger ones

Taking out the fence to make room for the basketball court

Diggin up fence posts

Kids are always willing to help

We are making six benches to give to the church in Terrier Rouge

putting legs together

Cutting off long bolts

putting sand on top of our 12 loads of rock

 Opa helping out

The canal is finished. Water is flowing nicely

The kids' kites fly so high!

Wenchie testing out the sand

Aubrey and her little shovel

This is all she does. . .  not really though.

Lousina with short hair and glitter

One load of sand was a lot easier to spread than one load of rock!

Jerome's son Caleb. Looks just like him!

Trevor

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Days 8-10 - Beach, Rock, and Shopping

Sorry I have not posted anything the last couple of days. We have been very busy for the most part. As part of a reward for the kids that help us work, we take them to the beach. These first several pictures are us heading to the beach. I do not have pictures of us having fun at the beach, but I will post them, soon.










We did do some more work on the plumbing. We sent the water and other liquids from the visitors dorm to the right into the septic tank.
 This is some awesome cement work to fix the part of the canal that crosses the road.

Over 10 loads of rock have been spread so far during this trip.

Hanging out on the roof after dinner one night.

Some of the kids like to hang out in the wheel barrow.

We went shopping on Saturday to buy supplies to build benches for the church in Terrier Rouge. Below is the lumber that we purchased. It took us 6 hours to go to 4 stores to buy the wood, and other supplies needed to finish running wire out to the future basketball court.
 Wenchie likes to hang out in old tires.

Trevor