It was a whirlwind of a trip as always! The team celebrated Easter in Port-au-Prince and then traveled the four+ hours up north to Dessalines and then hiked the nine hours up the mountains to Kawo. They updated a few hundred of our school kids’ photos and information for HOPE in Haiti. They also helped build benches for the school as well and then raced back down the mountains in time to celebrate the finish of the church construction project in Nanwo with several baptisms (including one of our own team members!) and long, wonderful, church, celebration services. It was a fast, busy trip but sweet to see the work that God, in His grace and goodness, continues to carry on! Enjoy the pics!
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Start of the 13 mile hike with an elevation gain of 3500′ in 90+ degrees to the beautiful mountain village of Kawo. The beauty of the mountains almost makes the killer hike worth it… well it is worth it but you only realize that AFTER you are done.
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Resting at a trail break on the aforementioned hike to Kawo. If you ever go on the hike with Dixie, the breaks are oh so short.
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John Montgomery working here with the rest of the team building school benches for the 400+ school children of Kawo. These benches function as a seat and desk and will seat anywhere from six to ten children.
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Haitian and American men working together to make the much needed Kawo school benches this April.
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Pastor Louinet & Pastor Aaron in front of the Hope in Haiti school and church in mountain village of Kawo. The walls are rock and cement walls with wood trusses holding the tin roof. This structure serves 400+ of the poorest families in Haiti.
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Several of the 400+ Kawo School Children which your donations and sponsorships are making possible. You can see the school uniforms and children that are excited to learn.
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What we travel, work, sacrifice and give for… the change the life of another child and see their smile.
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Hope in Haiti school backpack on a Kawo child attending school. Hundreds of these packets where donated along with the custom artwork and now the children use them as their school bag.
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One the Nan Wo church attenders comes to a celebration service at the finished and beautiful Hope in Haiti Nan Wo church. The church is cement block construction with a raised cement floor, stage and tin roof. The extreme heat and humidity in Haiti year round make interior lights very unnecessary during the day. Having traveled to Haiti many times this dark picture looks nice and cool to me. Maybe that is why the services are so long.
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Baptisms by Pastor Louinet from Haiti and Pastor Aaron from Crosswater Church in Washington. These are taking place outside the finished church in Nanwo in the river. Maybe this is what it was like in Bible times…
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Nathan being baptized by Pastor Aaron of Crosswater Church in the river by Nan Wo in Haiti!
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Pastor Aaron, his son Zachary and Haitian friend after church. That suite looks like it would be so hot in the 90 degree sun Pastor!
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John and Grace Montgomery with Even Montgomery’s brother, Socrate and niece in April
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Haitian Parade in Nan Wo
