Goats and Blessings!

During our trip in March we had the pleasure to stay at the Wesleyan Compound in Ansagale on la Gonave. This place was BUSY!! They have three major projects going on, all at the same time. The dormitory building on the property is almost complete, and is built to earthquake proof specificaitons. Accross the street, the hospital is getting a much needed reconstruction. And out by the airport and Pastor Agone's school, they have broken ground on a new orphange for Mme. Soleil and the children at Les Enfantes de Jesus Orphanage. This is a God send, because the existing home is vastly over crowded with almost 80 children on two floors, with no outside play area as it is on a city street. This is the group of children we hosted for a day of play down at the Wesleyan Compound. The name of the project overseeing the construction is "Okipe" which means to care for. They can be found on the web with a video of the project. Rika Lively and I shared a room with four wonderful ladies from Pennsylvania. Althougth we only spent one night together, we bonded through much mission discussion. Janet Little, from Abundant Life Baptist Church in Washington, PA, was one of these ladies who was helping work on the building at the compound. We told of the goat farm, and of empowering the Haitians to help themselves, and create businesses to help support the school they wished to start. She liked the idea that we did not just hand out money or food. I just received $810 from Janet and a group of her friends to buy goats!!That is 16 more goats to add to our herd! Thank you to Janet Little and her friends from Abundant Life Baptist Church for believing in our mission. God is good!!!