Haiti Work Teams: SUMMER 2015 UPDATE

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

SUMMER 2015 UPDATE

Well, February 2015 came and went, without me getting anything posted other than photos of the new John Deere Tractor that was donated to the orphanage. A lot of water over the dam, so to speak, but as active missionaries, Ken and Marla Drowley would say, another day of perfect weather in Haiti.

In February, Dave & Iziek Soper, along with myself flew into Haiti and the Ebenezer Glenn Orphanage to work on the new bath addition for the baby dorm. A previous team has poured the footings; another team layed up the cement block; and another team built and installed the roof rafters. Our job was to button everything up, including the gable end closure, flashing the roof into the existing building, installing the roof cap and ventilations, running the 4" sewer line 130 feet from one of the septic tanks on the grounds, installing the showers and toilets, and finishing up installation of newly made metal shop doors, and starting on benches in the new wood working shop built earlier in December. A good 2 1/2 weeks with lots accomplished. Please click on the picture part of this site to see all the photos.

Ken & Marla returned to the states in May for a short visit to see graduations and visit friends and relatives. And, the big event was Beth McCormick's wedding to D.J, who had visited Haiti last October for the first time. Will they be returning? Only God knows. In the meantime, Beth is finishing up her Nurse Practitioners Degree and D.J is going to help start up an organic feed mill in the Fairfax, Iowa area owned by Frank & Shelly Kuenon, friends of ours for a long time.

Don & Doris are back in the states right now for an extended visit and will be returning to EGO sometime this fall. Randy & Linda Kucinski have been at the orphanage for about 3 months running and are contemplating returning in a full-time status. We wish them the best in what God has planned for their future.

More updates later this summer. The EGO Cycle Team will be riding across the state of Iowa in what is known as RAGBRAI, an enormous event with up to 15,000 riders from all over the world riding their bicycles from 60 to 80 miles per day in a 7 day cross-country ride running from West to East. This years route runs from Sioux City, Storm Lake, Fort Dodge, Eldora, Cedar Falls, Hiawatha-Cedar Rapids, Coralville-Iowa City, and finishing up in Davenport. Have a great summer everyone!

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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.