Pictures Shadehouse National Rt. 1 Week 2

 The site for Pastor Kelly was quite rocky.

 Posts had to be set in concrete, impossible to drive in the rocky soil

 Everyone was anxious to help

 Future shadehouse team member

 after set in concrete the anchor post were cut to a height of 20"

 If you don't hydrate often, you get sick.

 He's not as bad as he looks,  at 43 he's the kid on the crew

shade is a blessing

 Team Leader and faithful servant

The hard part is done

 This is Silly, a brown bag puppet who has logged thousands of airline miles.  He has been photographed with the great, the not so great, and the insignificant.

 Ready for the cover

 Tim working carefully over a security wall topped with broken glass to secure the cover to the end

Low cost way to keep people from climbing over the wall

Haitian Pastor Kelly, on the left,  is currently building a new church that will seat 3500.  He ministers to 10,000 worshippers every Sunday.

He helped in constructing the shadehouse also.

 Inside the new church

Pictures Shadehouses Week 1 National Rt. 1

Site for Ellen's shadehouse

The large leafed plants over the wall are bananas.  They grow well in this area

leveling the foundation

Anchor posts all in place

Ready to set up hoops

Emery using hog rings to secure the chicken wire across the ends

That's Ellen in the center,  She is establishing a home for girls.

Site for Mark and Sandra Julian,

Carrying the hoops to the building site

Bolting the stringers in place

the completed project, near theroad for all to see.

The team, Ben, Ron, Emery, and Tim.  great ambassadors for Christ and SFP.

SFP Haiti 2015 National Route 1

SFP Haiti 2015 National Route 1



Psalms 90:17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the works of our hand.

The focus of our recent SFP team of Emery Pearson, Ben Frey, Tim Witherwax and Ron Lusk involved the work along Haiti’s National Route 1 north from the main city of Port Au Prince. Our team built three shades houses for very different and unique groups. One unit was for a very ambitious young lady Ellen Humerickhouse. Ellen has recently embarked on a ministry to develop a girls home north of PAP approx. 50 Km. She has acquired land and is building a house/home with help of several support church groups from the US. The Shade House will be utilized to help supplement their daily food needs as her ministry grows.

Our second unit was in the same area about 2 miles away at Tell Ministries for Mark and Sandra Julian. Mark and Sandra are old friends of SFP and our time with them was great. They are currently working at a children’s home/Pastors’ training center/medical center. The medical center will soon be upgraded to a regional hospital. This Shade House will be supportive to the children’s home and training center. And as of a few days ago they are already planting seeds brought in for their use.

The third unit built was at Titanyen National Rt 1 27 Km just up from Global Outreach Mission complex. This Shade House was for Pastor Kelly Balde’, who oversees nearly 10,000 worshippers each Lord’s day. There is a new church under construction which will seat 3,500 each Sunday. The area is developing commercially along with the expanding residential growth largely those moving out of Port. The Shade House is near the new church and will be utilized for helping church families.

Our team, in less than eight days, drove nearly one quarter mile of EMT pipe, assembled and erected nearly half mile of PVC sections, placed enough shade cloth to cover nearly half a football field not mentioning all concrete, bolts, washers, nut , screws, chicken wire, hog rings and door latches.

Through all this work we had time to pray, laugh, sweat, drink lots of water and still enjoyed the fellowship of believers while seeing God at work establishing our hands for His honor and glory. We knew by encouraging one another we would be steadfast, immovable, always abounding knowing the work is not in vain for our Lord. I Corinthians 15:58.



 

Shadehouse at Passe Catebois

Robinson’s Shade house


Written by Jaime Oestreich

I was privileged enough to travel with Lane Koneman, and our very first timer Chad Ellis. We met Bruce Robinson for the first time on the road near the salt flats of Northwest Haiti, A little junction in the middle of nowhere. Bruce in his Land Crusier, and a crew with a Ford Farm Tractor and a trailer behind. The team began unloading all the supplies for the shadehouse onto the trailer and our personal belongins and food went into the Land Crusier. And we were off! Bruce stopped at the Bakers home where another shadehouse project is to be built at a later date and we ate lunch, and then with Bruce’s wife Debbie now with us it was on to the Robinson compound. Passe Catebois was small but very plush green and Bruce told us that 25 years ago there wasn’t a single tree in this village, now trees were everywhere. The Robinson’s compound consisted of two sites, the first was Bruce and Debbie’s living quarters, fenced and walled in, that is where we put the new shadehouse, close to the house. And the second was the shop area and living quarters for visiting teams. The first full day was eventful as we started laying out and driving posts for the shadehouse, Chad and I were taking turns at driving posts with our new post-driver that was manufactured by Ron Lusk and his friends just for our purposes. Chad driving his third post, Struck WATER! Hitting a small ½ inch waterline that was crossing Bruce’s property, No one knew that it was there and Chad’s expression after water was boiling up out of the ground still makes me laugh! After the pipe was repaired, we were on doing other tasks and we had hoops up by the end of the day. Our concrete on the corner posts and door posts had to set overnight. We progressed each of the next two days just as planned with the very fine points taken care of Friday morning. All in all it went better than I had hoped for, with Lane only helping install one other shadehouse and Chad not knowing at all what he was getting into! Along the way of building, our host Bruce, mentioned that the two Haitian helpers where there to learn the secrets of shadehouse building, so they were learning to do step by step what we do. We shared the labor of all aspects and they got to use the tools we brought with us, and labored right beside us. It turned out to be a teaching process for Chad and the two Haitians as well. Friday our Ride came and picked us up and back to the Northwest where we melded into the rest of the Team there for the final week.