FINALLY, an update

Greetings,

We apologize for taking so long to get an update out to everyone.  Things have been very busy and many things going on.  Our Christmas celebration was a lot of fun for everyone.  We are so thankful for those who sent gifts for the children.  We will be posting a lot of photos today and hope you can bear with us while looking through them all.  

We've had Christmas, a wedding, a beach day, plus a lot of work going on here.  The children have grown and they really enjoyed their Christmas time.  We've had trips to the doctor on different occasions, but all are doing good now.  The weather caused colds and coughs, but prayerfully it is evening out now and the kids will be totally over these crazy colds.

Our first pictures are of the chapel, gazebo, and play ground.  We finally got some good pictures and wanted to share them.

 

 

And now the Children.....these are some of the girls with their Christmas presents:

 Evenel, then Walcky,

 Leazard

 Claude

 Esther

 Kerby

 Jhon Peter

 Lovensky

 Loveka

 Modelene

 Amy

 Modelene, again

 Loveka, again

 Makinlove

 Kerby, again

 Ephraiym

 Wakenson

 The children at the beach enjoying lunch

 Dieulene

 Modelene, again with her gift

 Amy with her gift

 Emmanuella

 Ruth

 Anderson

 Frandjina

 Gaelle

Sorry these pictures are not in order, but the blog puts them where it wants to, not where we want them to.  But they are here.  

We hope in the near future to have a good photo of each one of the children to post on here.  Pray with us that we can accomplish that.  These kids are very hard to "corral" and get photos of.

Please pray with us for all the children, for our finances, for our workers and their families and for the Lord to walk with us and show us what to do and when to do it.

Thank you for your patience with us and we appreciate all your prayers.

Compound updates and kids

We wanted to post some pictures so you can see all the great things happening at IDADEE.  Even with the rains, building continues.  So we wanted to share these with you.

Let's start with the gym.  It's been there a while, but the kids enjoy it, so we wanted to let you see it, too.

 The chapel is so nice and airy... if there were walls all around, it would be hot, but this way they can get a breeze and still hear God's word!

 

This is the gazebo, that a team put up for us.  

 And now the guest house.  The view from up here is really great.  And breezes come all the time.   It's growing fast.  It will have 8 bedrooms with 4 beds in each one.  

 

Then there are some of the kids.... Trying to get a picture of the kids is a REAL challenge.  Sort of like taking a picture of a tornado.  Always on the move, never stopping.

Makinlove

 Kerby

 Ephriam

 Wakenson

Jhon Peter

 Dieulene

 

Ruth

Amy

 

Loveka

 Emmanuela

The kids love school.  They have a lot of fun and are enjoying learning... well, all but one.  Lovensky is a challenge.  But he'll work into it soon, we hope.

I hope you enjoyed the photos.  We'll try to keep posting more as they are taken.  

Keep IDADEE in prayer, along with all of northern Haiti.  These rains are causing so many problems.  Pray with us that it will stop for a while and give the ground a chance to dry a bit.  Keep praying all of the kids and staff at IDADEE.  Living in Haiti is a challenge, but doing it with 24 kids with the raising cost of food is a HUGE challenge.  (We have one new one, soon to be posted on here).
 
Blessings to everyone.  We hope to see you soon.

Guest house and school

Greetings again!

Trying to catch up on some news here for everyone.  We will try to keep posting photos as we can, but wanted to share what we have so far.

First, our guests house... the first one is when they put in the foundation.  The second one is just two days ago... they are doing a great job on that.  Isn't the view something? You can see the orphanage just below, that's the roof of the building on the left.  From this point, (in the second photo) you can see the bay where Christopher Columbus originally landed, but decided it wasn't safe enough to stay.  He missed out on a great area, didn't he?  The breeze up here is fantastic.  And with Haiti being HOT most of the year, this is great.  A wind generator would be a real plus in this location.

 

 Next are the kiddos.  Actually this is the school kids, at work.  We have 2 classrooms right now and the kids are learning fast.  Pray for our teachers and the kids as they work toward their goal.

Now the kids that we did take pictures of...

Ester

Jhon Peter

 Makenlove

 Lovensky

 Vladimyr

 We will post again soon with more pictures to show you what is happening at IDADEE.  Please keep us in prayer as we try to follow the Lord in the way He wants us to go.

Sorry for the L O N G wait

Saying we are busy is no excuse, but it really IS our excuse.  With 24 children, only 3 moms, and few other workers, it's really hectic trying to keep up with things.  Plus we have started school, had the edges of a hurricane and LOTS of rain.  

We started school with 14 of the children.  We have 3 teachers who have taught before.  Most of the kids like school, but of course we have one who does not like it AT ALL.  We are teaching in French right now.  We will also teach English to the children.  If we start now, they will be able to grasp languages much easier.  They are learning to do letters, sounds of letters and different shapes.  They have Bible every day.  They color.  They are starting to learn how to count.  There is more that we work into their lessons, just as  I'm sure you do in the states.

It was VERY dry and we lost many of our crops we had planted.  We prayed for rain and the Lord answered.  But we really didn't want Him to send a hurricane to accomplish that.  We have had so much rain and it has cause other problems, but we will overcome them.  The actual hurricane (Sandy) didn't hit us, but the outer ridges of it brought us an overabundance of rain.

We now have the new bus and are using it a lot.  We take the children to church in it, and that is a blessing.  During the week it is used as a tap-tap, or transportation vehicle between Cap Haitian and Vaudreuille (near Radio 4VEH).  And if we need to take the children to the clinic, we use it before they take it for commercial use.

We have been working on the guest house.  It is situated on the hill above the orphanage.  We have the foundation in and they have started on the walls.  We are praying it will be completed in good time.

We had a team come in and put in a gazebo.  It will be a place where visitors can come and we can talk with them.  

So many things have been accomplished lately.  We will try and get some photos posted on here in the next few days.  With being so busy it's hard to take the  time to take photos to share, but we will make that effort.  

Please check back and you can remind us what you'd like to see on here.  We will take some photos of the projects completed and in progress.  We will also try to update the children's photos, so you can see how they have grown.  

Please keep IDADEE, it's children, the workers and the committee in your prayers.  This is a hard time in Haiti and we are feeling the effects of the raising cost of food and fuel.

Thank you for your prayers and for keeping in touch with us.  May the Lord bless you abundantly.