2004 November Haiti Mission Group Photo Gallery by Beulah Chapel Church of the Nazarene at pbase.com

2004 November Haiti Mission Group

Haiti Mission trip to help finish up a church
we put on roof and build pews and painted the inside and outside of the church.

Bill also did a 2 day medical clinic with help from Jenny, Gale, Jean and Katie.

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thanks so much for checking out our pictures and God Bless.

sign at church	Thursday night midnight or early Friday morning loading up the bus to go from church to Atlanta airport	meet at the church at midnight and leave at 1am	group	drive to atlanta
to fly out at 6am Saturday morning	20 people, 40 checked bags

	team shirts	Haiti down below		arrived Friday lunch time to Port a Prince airport
left cold weather and getting off the plane in hot weather				waiting in line to put our luggage on the truck
luggage truck	loading up on the truck (our transportation for the next 9 days)		UN post
		lunch of sloppy joe sandwich, potato chips and fruit salad	sign that was made and put in the church with all our names on it	truck that we rode in ever wheres
Saturday morning, off to the market and shopping (our only shopping day)	we stayed in the bottom of this work and witness house for our first 2 nights and our last night	street	veggie markets on the street
woman with basket of veggies on her head and the front part of an UN truck			old canon used in the Napolean days	Haiti Museum
		Tea Terrace at the Baptist Mission in Haiti	menu
				if you look close, you can see the gardens on the sides of the hills, people have fell out of their gardens and gotten killed


see the little lizard below the painting
paintings being sold on the side of the street		looking down on Port a Prince from the lookout	on the left of the pic is the big cemetary, to the right of that is a big soccer stadium and on the right of the pic is Palace

group at the lookout	Caribbean Supermarket	Sunny Home art gallery and gift shop	inside the sunny home gift shop
	La Voile Restaurant (Saturday night with the Missionary families living in Haiti)

	Sunday morning, on the way to church		inside Petionville, Haiti Church of the Nazarene





team after church			Sunday after church, load up the trucks to leave for Saint Marc

selling home made table clothes and dollies to raise money for his schooling	lunch after church, sandwiches and left over Pizza that we had on Friday night
left over sloppy joe mix from Sat lunch		home made pimento cheese that Joan brought with her		how toilet paper will travel
luggage and food truck for the next 5 days	seeds from co-op			public transportation in the back of the truck called a top-top
pictures on the drive to saint marc, road work				first sight of the ocean on the drive
	3 hr drive to Saint Marc
	cemetary on the side of the road			Billboard taken by Janice's request

			this brand of rhum is made in Haiti	welcome to Saint Marc
our first meal at the YWAM (youth with a mission)			having fun with the locals
		Rachel swung from a roap and jumped into the pool fully clothed		playing in the pool at YWAM
Corey, a missionary that lives in Haiti		David		next to swing on the roap
			early Monday morning, getting ready to leave to go and work on the church, met at the gate by a goat	this man jumped on the back of our truck (while it was moving) and hitched a ride
checking out the creek before we travel across it (it rained the night before)	all team members to cross the creek and walk rest of the way to the church	creek crossing

	first sightening of the church with walls already built by the locals	carrying all thigns off of the truck up the hill to the church site	Bill carries the cross	the locals do it, why can't Janice
		inside the church with no roof, paint or benches	getting to work
	Joan carries the church sign

makign a wall cover the the toilet / out house
cleaning cement off the doors to paint them
stirring the paint			working on the generator for the power tools
	bucket of creek water to wash our hands in		Corey prepares lunch	all around the top had to be painted, so the top metal things could be put on
				no power in this village, so our church bought a generator for the Cadieu church to have power for the lights we put in
Jerry cutting corners for the benches	Rachel and Stephanie running the routers on the wood for the benches	David and Rachel	David and Rachel	Rachel
	Elizabeth (water girl) and Helen (on the varnishing team)	Carl and Charlie	Jermeny and Jim (local missionary)	Martha and Joan
Jenny	Jermeny and Matt	Joan and Martha	Jenny	Katie
locals helping paint their church	Gale	paint crew	church view from the hill	inside an old building (used as a school and church) building benches
bench work going on	mixing more paint		one coat of paint almost on the church (Monday evening)
	painting the windows
		Bill mixing paint
			locals at the church helping or just watching

Gourd (what the local money is named after)	Bill kissing the gourd	Hatian hog	duck and baby ducklings (if you look close you can see them)	goat
toilet	boy carrying banana's
Rachel	Jeremy and Gale	rock crusher		loading up on the truck
back at YWAM with sunset through our window cracks (no glass on windows)	Monday nights meal, rice with bean juice and some kind of meat	Gale gets the thyme seasonings out of the pot on mistake	Katie on her luxury bed (where we all got bed bug bites)	Jean and Gale
Helen	sinks on the girls side	toilets	shower, where you hold with one hand to pull the chain to shower in COLD water
looks like a chinese laundry	Monday night looking at pictures taken durning the day		Jerry with Tue morning breakfast (cereal with shelf milk)	up for day 2 of the work team
on the way to the work site again (45 mins drive from the YWAM sleep site)	local Hatian boy brushing his teeth	everyone is to carry 2 rocks to put in the creek so the trucks do not get stuck		one truck got stuck anyways and had to be pushed out
locals coming to watch us walk by		walking to the work site		day 2, ready to put the tin on now
day 2, we had a medical clinic	toilet	toilet	view from the church
Charlie and Jim with Clinic in the back ground (people on the porch waiting to be seen)	our make shift kitchen	looking out the school house window		some of the tin is on the church now
bench work		Helen and her helpers	Jim and Jerry	Elizabeth supervising the bench making
Corey and Helen		view out the window
	Charlie	view looking through the church windows from the outside looking in	Martha doing some painting and clinic in the back	roof work
handing up sheets of tin	the first completed bench	Helen	water break	Bill looking at this ladies eyes
	the pupil is to the side and slanted (she is blind in that eye)	clinic workers	Pastor of the church
Bill translating from Creole to English	75 tickets were giving out to the village people, over 85 people saw (ones with tickets brought their kids also)	happy to see the doctor and nurses		make shift office with 5 gallon buckets for chairs
	waiting to see the doctor dressed in her best clothes	Martha and Joan painting		UT or University of Tennessee hat on

			several completed benches	view from the hill
		Rachel helping one of the local women shell corn
Martha coming from the toilet	Janic with hat on donkey	Jerry with his hat on the donkey		crossing the creek on Tue evening (we need to leave before it gets dark each day)
Jean			breakfast on Wed morning, cream of corn.......it was horrible tasting (Jean said it taste like wall paper paste)
	grasshopper that joined Jenny for breakfast		everyoen does their own dishes at YWAM
on the way back to the work site on Wed moring			Wed am, truck gets stuck	men trying to push the truck up the hill
	they need weight in the truck now, so they ask the women to get in the back		local kitchen	kitchen
pressing water out of the crushed corn in the bag	walking up the hill to the church		Jenny has morning devotions and she does it in the new church	Wed AM, we need to do some finish up paint jobs, finish up the benches and put the center cap on the roof
			lunch break	gathered in front of the church
		we signed the bottom of one of the church pews

				Elizabeth coming from the toilet
windows on the front of the church	Charlie doing some touch up painting	Bill hanging up the sign from our church
				Matt working on the cross to hang at the front of the church
		Jenny and Katie	Bill after a hard days work in the clinic	Bills burnt head after painting outside
		at the creek to wash up for church dedication service	bathing in the creek
	local cutting up coconuts for us	completed church		Corey walking to church
Charlie going to church	Gale	Matt and Jenny	Jerry (we donate a guitar and keyboard to the church)	Carl
Bill and Martha
	church service	local group singing	Bill
gift gave to our church	Charlie is our team leader and he accepts the gift		in Jesus, all things are possible	Bill and Martha accepting a gift
Jim and Corey accepts a gift				man to the Right is preaching and man on the Left is translating to English for us
	full house on the first day			leaving the church
	Jerry	Charlie	Jeff	Sign on the road for the church (you can't see the church from the road)
	our last creek crossing			corn hanging in a tree to keep the rats away from it
ringing the bell that it is time to eat	Wed night meal, rice, bean juice, meat		Joan and Charlie dish up a big plate full	leaving the YWAM mission on Thur morning
YWAM (youth with a mission)		arriving at Moulin Sur Mer

			rooms not ready so we go to the ocean (day of rest and relax)
sea snake		drink menu	rooms ready	big shell at the pool
			pool time	this is a big loung chair
		humming bird in the middle
Domingo the monkey that will bite			goose laying on eggs	our lunch
Thursday night meal		Katie orders the fried goat
	Matt and Jenny	Gale will ride home on her broom that she bought	Jerry and Bill	Bill helping Martha get in the pool
toes will not touch the bottom
		Sunset
	Matt with his fish (Thursday night meal)	Joan not too impressed with her catch		Friday morning breakfast
leaving Moulin Sur Mer	getting diesel for the trucks	on the way back to Port a Prince
walking around the Seminaire Theologique Nazareen d'Haiti #5, impasse St-Marc, Petionville Campus Nazarene			Jean checking out the pharmacy	office building on campus
Organ that is in the chapel that was donated to the chapel by Beulah Chapel Church of the Nazarene in Niota Tennessee	Jerry playing the piano	David acting silly posing with a flower	soccer game in from of the dorms	Friday night meal on campus
	ladies preparing the mal	Dave looking at the pictures we have taken while on the church building site	Elizabeth
		Martha, Gale and Jeremy go through the food line
	Helen	Elizabeth and Helen	Jean, Dana, Jerry and Carisa	doesn't this look good
Jenny trying out the rice and beans	local Hatian cola (it is real sweet)	breakfast on Saturday morning	Martha cooking scrambled eggs	our rooms at the Nazarene Mission, work and witness house
	shower that had hot water	toilets		eating breakfast before we leave, Elizabeth and Jerry
		Bill and Martha
		getting on the truck for the last ride to the airport
riding to the airport		truck in front with the luggage	engine on the plane	walking to the plane
	Miami down below

loading the luggage		40 pieces of checked luggage going down and only 32 on the way back (bellcap proud of himself for getting all this on 2 carts)

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Willio Charles		21-Jul-2006 06:30
my name is Willio Charles. I live in Miami for 14 years and I am very happy for such a wonderful work you have done in my country, Haiti. May God continue to pour His abundant blessing upon you all. Additionally, I also have an organization to help children in La Gonave, Haiti. it is a young foundation, may be we can work together to continue doing good things in Haiti. the name of the organization is " Divine Grace Foundation INC" I'll be glad to receive your feedback soon. God bless you all.

luceanna		22-Jun-2006 23:30
need some serious help with orphanage in Haiti. Children are in danger of loosing the only home they ever knew. Please dont let that happen. For more info please email me your contact info at godsoasis@hotmail.com. The organizations name is OASIS for Children Inc. OASIS is an acronym for Our Attempt at Saving Innocent Souls. Any and all donations are tax-deductable. Will be more than happy to send you info and picures of the organizations. I am not to proud to beg for help;these children and the many other children on the waiting list are worth it. Please help.

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