A week from now. . . .

. . . .the first 6 of 9 team members will be en route to Port au Prince, Haiti.  Paul and Jackie Keller, and Mick and Sarah McClelland will be making their first trip.  John and Nancy Smith, already members of Haiti's Frequent Visitor Club, will be leading the group. . .which gets rounded out the next day with the arrival of Scott and Jill Wilkinson and their daughter Elle.  The entire team will make its way to Jeremie on Friday, April 8, and hit the ground running sorting through the contents of   10 duffels and items also stuffed into each person's personal luggage.  On this first day after arrival, we'll also make our way to the Gebeau Depot where a large number of items have been stored in advance of our arrival, and to the Gebeau Clinic to be sure all is in order before Dr. Scott does does eye clinic and surgery work the following week.

We'll be posting daily, Internet and electrical power  availability permitting of course, and hope to include some pictures as well.   We'll be installing solar power on the church roof in our adopted mountain village of Chiraque, where the end game is giving the kids in school the the same kind of access to the "world" that their contemporaries have most everywhere else.  We'll be conducting mobile medical/dental/eye clinics in Chiraque, Gommiers, the Jeremie jail, and a part of Jeremie known as "Tent City".  We'll be doing fluoride treatments, distributing dresses made by FUMC's seamstresses, delivering Chromebooks to Chiraque and the John Wesley High School, and helping carve out a crude but flattish  soccer field for the kids to use in Chiraque (right now, they play in a narrow pathway between the two 2-room school buildings).

We're able to do many things because of the generous support from FUMC's congregation, and because of the many friends we've made in the ground in Haiti. . .who do a LOT of legwork for us before we arrive.  Many thanks to everyone who cares and pitches in one way or another.  Every little bit helps.