Haiti Work Teams: Sunday in Haiti

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Sunday in Haiti

The weather is hot! Much in the news. See this link about the shelters Bill Clinton installed in Leoagane. http://www.haiti-liberte.com/archives/volume4-52/The%20Shelters.asp

Also, see the news about the new Prime Minister candidate who has replaced Daniel Gerald Rouzier.
http://www.haiti-liberte.com/archives/volume4-52/Bernard%20Gousse.asp

And, cholera has not gone away. It is still rearing it's ugly head after the UN contingency from Nepal unleashed this deadly and sickening disease. Read more here:

http://blogs.pjstar.com/haiti/author/jcarroll/

The board of directors of the Ebenezer Glenn Orphanage had their annual meeting yesterday in Michigan. Not sure of any results from the meeting, but trust God's will was favorable in their discussions.

A team of 10 is scheduled to arrive in Haiti on August 16th to pour the cement floors in the 2 classrooms in the 'Jonathan School' addition. Plus, they will work on the outside walkways, landscaping, and the new bathrooms that are currently under construction in the front corner of the building site. Pray for the water storage system that needs to be installed on the roof. The Haitian government has mandated that all new public buildings, including this school, have functional and operational lavatories and urinals. This engineering feat, especially at the new school, will tax even the most experienced septic and sewer professional that the United States has to offer. Please pray this work will be done correctly so that it does not contaminate the ground water that is so close to the surface.

With a million people still homeless in Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake, with a once-proud system of rural agriculture<http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43969>now on life-support due in no small part to the policies imposed on Haiti by the international community, with women and girls disenfranchised and and with the country's politicians seemingly poised to enter yet another period of poisonous deadlock, is this the best we foreign journalists can do? Is this the future of journalism? Where the suffering and struggle for survival of the majority of the world's population merely provides a backdrop for navel-gazing to even further promote was has already become our incredibly inward-looking, self-referential culture?

This should do it for today. Enjoy your Sunday and don't forget to spend time with God today.

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Mission Statement

Haiti Work Teams is committed to improving the quality of life for the Haitian people by offering sound construction techniques and assitance in building projects. Projects considered would be schools, clincis, hospitals, solar storage, wells, water storage, septic systems, trash containment and waste removal. In the medical arena, Haiti Work Teams will assist existing medical missions and provide speciality teams in the fields of general medicine, OB-GYN, nutrition, dentistry, and vision care.

Our Beginning in 1980

Steve and Sheila Scheib first visited Haiti in 1980 as part of a construction and medical work team. After several more trips, we were asked to fill in for missionaries, Don and Doris Peavey, while they went on furlough. So, in March of 1988 we returned with our 3 children for a one year commitment at the Ebenezer Glenn Orphange in Marchand Dessalines. The time was a mixed blessing, in that physically the time was exhausting; not enough hours in the day to get everything done that needed to be done; but spiritually, our faith was stretched in ways that only other missionaries could relate to. Growth was obtained through the trials that God allowed to come our way. Our faith grew and our sense of security was in the Savour of the World who had called us to Haiti. When the Peaveys returned the following year, we returned to the states in April of 1989. We have continued over the years to return to Haiti as often as possible.