Progress

I have been back in Haiti for about a week we are building 50 houses with a grant from Cross International. Things are going well construction wise. We are moving along fairly quickly. We got 5 foundations put in this week. We will begin pouring the floors on Monday and hopefully have the walls poured on a couple houses by the end of the week.

The houses are 10ft. x 20ft. with 2 doors and 2 windows. They will have poured concrete walls with metal roofs. We are building them in 8 house complexes. All the houses face the center of what will eventually be a gathering area for the neighborhood. If we have enough money in the budget we hope to provide water and some electrical power to each house grouping.

We also distributed food to about 50 elderly in the neighborhood. Addison my good friend and coworker who some of you have met on your trips here has a passion to help the elderly so for the last 2 1/2 months he has been giving them about a 15 day supply of unprepared food. He had begun helping a few older people on his own before he even asked me to help financially. Needless to say he doesn't have a lot himself and he is trying to provide for his wife four children and an orphan he recently took in. I am excited to be joining him in the passion the Lord has given him. The orphan is the girl whose brother I wrote about in the last blog.

It has been an encouraging week seeing a lot of work being done and seeing God's hope beginning to settle in here in Jubilee.

As always thanks for your continued prayer and financial support.

Happy New Year,

Brian