HAF News
Jacmel Update
As many of you have heard our Children’s Village in Jacmel, Haiti was robbed early in the morning on November 19th. We are grateful that nothing like this has previously happened in the seven years that we have been in the area.
Through the Lords grace, mercy, and protection our staff and children were not physically harmed. However, our staff and children were immediately moved to a temporary home at our other site until security can be increased in Jacmel. Our top priority is that everyone remains safe while recovering from this event. Our team and children have been moved, and the children are truly enjoying spending time with their “cousins”, the Lord is truly deepening and nurturing relationships despite this chaotic event. The children in Grand Goave have welcomed their extended family into their new, temporary home. We are constantly receiving updates from the field of proud moments of our children, they have truly helped this transition flow smoothly.
“Kettia, the youngest girl who lives in Grand Goave had given her only other uniform to one of the Jacmel girls so that she would not feel left out at school. Since the Jacmel children are temporarily attending school in Grand Goave they were going to have to wear their blue & white uniforms; however, Kettia did not want one of them to feel left out, so she allowed another of the girls to wear her only other uniform! Then the rest of our girls followed..What a proud moment.”
Not only have the children been examples of Christ during this time, but other organizations in the area have truly shown us what it looks like to be the body of Christ. We would like to send a huge thank you to the staff at Mission of Hope and Be Like Brit for coming along side of us and helping construct a temporary building in a very short amount of time. We would also like to thank Tina for caring for our infants until they are able to move back home. We are praying that our children will be able to move home soon, but until then we know they are happy and enjoying this mini-vacation.
During this time we are clinging to John 10:10 “A thief comes to steal and kill and destroy, but I came to give Life…..Life in all its fullness.” We trust that the Lord is working through this difficult time and we are thankful for each and everyone of you who have come alongside us with your prayers, words of encouragement, and financial support. We have seen evidence of the Lord bringing life everytime we look in the eyes of one of our children and we trust that He will bring even more abundant life out of this.
