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Children return back to school at Cambry, Les Cayes, Haiti

Dear Broth­ers and Sisters,

Greet­ings!
It is with great plea­sure that ESMI is pre­sent­ing to you this great event this year: Back To School 2012.

The chal­lenges were many, but the Lord has once again demon­strated His Faith­ful­ness to His Promises. We started any­way. We have oth­ers who still stand before us. We need your help to bring them down, like the peo­ple of Israel before the walls of Jericho.

We would like to express our grat­i­tude towards you for your faith­ful sup­port in the past. You never stop believ­ing in our call and vision. With­out you it would be impos­si­ble for us to give life and sus­tain the lives of these chil­dren. Let us keep doing great things together for God while hop­ing for great things from Him too. These chil­dren need to become some­one tomor­row. IN GOD WE TRUST.

May our God con­tinue to use you to do amaz­ing things in His Kingdom.

Best regards in Christ,
Pas­tor Louis St. Ger­main
ESMI Haiti Field Director

Here are a few of our pic­tures of the chil­dren return­ing to school in Haiti. To view more, visit our pub­lic album on Face­book. You will need a Face­book account to leave a comment.

 

Haiti Trip, February 16–25, 2012 – Final Days

Bonswa…Bondye beni ou (Good morning…Lord bless you),

Wednes­day started off with a typ­i­cal Hait­ian change of plans. We have a school bus that we use to trans­port the teams to the var­i­ous sites while they are here in the Les Cayes area. On our way to Cherette a cou­ple of the lug bolts broke off of one of the tires and (more…)

Haiti Trip, February 16–25, 2012 — Last Few Days

Bonswa…Kòman ou ye? (Good afternoon/evening…how are you?)…

Sorry for miss­ing the last cou­ple of days for updates. We have a large group here at the Cam­bry guest­house and the Inter­net access been fairly lim­ited. The first half of my trip has been very pro­duc­tive. (more…)

Haiti Trip, February 16–25, 2012, Days 2 and 3

Bonswa…Kòman ou ye? (Good afternoon/evening…how are you?)

I made it into Port-au-Prince yes­ter­day with­out a hitch, but after that things got fairly inter­est­ing. The team from Shreve­port, LA got in about 30 min­utes after I did. We loaded up the van and started head­ing to Les Cayes…normally about a 4 hour drive. (more…)

Haiti Trip, February 16–25, 2012 — Day 1

Map of Les Cayes area

Map of Les Cayes area

Dear Friends and Family…

Well, I am on my way back to Haiti. I will actu­ally be arriv­ing tomor­row around 3:40 PM in Port-au-Prince. On this trip I will be spend most of my time in the Les Cayes area (see map). I will be vis­it­ing our sites at Bigarouse, Cam­bry, Cayes, Cherette, Dari­vager, and Savannes (Bon Berger). While at these sites I will be updat­ing my assess­ment infor­ma­tion from Sep­tem­ber 2010. (more…)

January 2012

Dear Friends and Prayer Partners…

Well…another month has already zipped by. I don’t know about you and where you are liv­ing, but this win­ter has been quite a dif­fer­ent one for us here in Ohio. Even today I am send­ing out this email with a clear and sun­shiny day out­side with the tem­per­a­ture hit­ting the low 60’s. We still keep ask­ing, “When is win­ter really going to hit us?”

Jan­u­ary has once again proven to be a busy month with ESMI. As in the past, as the hol­i­days slip into our past we start hit­ting the road run­ning. I hope and pray that you enjoy hear­ing about some of our activ­i­ties from the Projects and Devel­op­ment per­spec­tive and that you will con­tinue to keep us in your prayers. (more…)

November 2011

Dear Friends and Prayer Part­ners…
Greet­ings again from the Short house­hold. I hope and pray that this update finds you doing well and enjoy­ing this fes­tive time of year. This update is going to focus on the activ­i­ties that I have had the priv­i­lege of work­ing on this past year. The items listed below have taken place since Jan­u­ary 2011 and fell under my respon­si­bil­ity as the Projects and Devel­op­ment Direc­tor with ESMI. Hope­fully this will give you an under­stand­ing of how valu­able your thoughts, prayers, and finan­cial sup­port has been to the peo­ple we work with in Haiti, Laura, and me. (more…)

An update from Dony St. Germain

Dear Part­ners in Ministry:

I thank God for the oppor­tu­nity to serve Him in Haiti. We’ve been here ten months now and it hasn’t been an easy adjust­ment. There are many chal­lenges that we have faced and con­tinue to face almost daily: chal­lenges with the children’s health; car inci­dents and acci­dents; lim­ited elec­tric­ity and plumb­ing at times; the heat (it still feels like sum­mer in Jere­mie); dif­fer­ent pace of life– a bank errand that should take 30 min­utes ends up tak­ing four hours when the van radi­a­tor over­heats and so I never know when I leave my home what time I’ll return because, here in Haiti, life is def­i­nitely unpre­dictable; and the list goes on. (more…)

Haiti: Another Perspective

Some­times it is help­ful to get another person’s per­spec­tive on a place like Haiti. What you often hear from me are the reports of our projects and the issues that we are often con­fronted with. Recently I was for­warded this account from Melissa Hed­den Roper. Melissa just spent a week at our Cas­sama­jor facil­ity in the Les Cayes area. Here is her story (used with her per­mis­sion. (more…)

Haiti Storm Update: October 2011

Dear Friends and Prayer Partners…

Please find below an update regard­ing the trop­i­cal storm that I reported in my last email. Please con­tinue to keep the peo­ple of Haiti in your thoughts and prayers.

“After the rain comes the good weather.” After the heavy rains that have swept the whole coun­try, calm returned on after­noon of Wednes­day, Octo­ber 12th. The five days of rain has caused much tur­moil in the Les Cayes area of Haiti. The South­ern Depart­ment was the most affected. The dam­age amounted to mil­lions of dol­lars and the loss of four lives was recorded. (more…)