Haiti Network

2011 Trips to Haiti thru the Haiti Partnership

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 21:42:44 -0500

The Haiti Partnership is very excited about the upcoming trips to Haiti. These trips will be shared construction type teams. The teams will be from the Upper New York Conference and the Susquehanna Conference and will be working with many Haitian workers. The teams will not only be helping the communities where they work but they will be empowering the communities as well. Please pray for safe travel for each of the following trips, and for the success of their missions. The dates of these trips will be:

Jan 6th thru 15th 2011;

Feb 10th thru 19th 2011;

Feb 17th thru 26th 2011;

March 17th thru 26th 2011

May 5th thru 14th 2011.

Thank you so much for your support.

Jodi Crimmel Haiti Partnership

Haiti Partnership training day

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 19:35:00 -0400

The Haiti partnership will be hosting a training day for newcomers that will be going to Haiti in 2011. This is an informative morning and open to anyone. Each new traveler to Haiti is required to attend a training session, as per UMCOR guidelines. The training will be held at the Tunkhannock United Methodist Church, Tunkhannock PA, on Saturday 20 November 2010 from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon. There will be light refreshments for all. This is a very interesting morning and many things are discussed, so each traveler is welcome and encouraged to attend.

Jodi Crimmel Haiti Partnership

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Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:59:00 -0400

First walls on the Hermitage school

More than 180 students of the school

Inside the preschool class room

Friends

Second floor of the Hermitage school

Students in the Hermitage school

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Church in Hermitage

Complete Methodist church in Hermitage

Working together in Hermitage

Family in Hermitage

Haiti Partnership future travel plans

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:36:00 -0400

The Haiti Partnership has a team traveling tomorrow, 4th of November for 10 days. Roger Richards is co leading this team with Barry Watkins. January 6 thru 15 2011 another team will be departing for Haiti. Patty Kauffman and Donna Hamil will be the co-leaders and the Haiti Network’s own Lyndsey Lyman will be on that trip. It will be wonderful to hear how Lyndsey’s second trip to Haiti went! Feb 10 thru 19 will see Roger Richards co-leading with Barb Gay. Roger will stay in Haiti to lead the second February Haiti Partnership team. This team will be traveling in Haiti February 17 thru 26 and be co-lead with Roger by Nancy Brooks. March will have Ronda Macedonio and Jodi Crimmel leading a team from March 17th thru 26th. The last in the series of up coming trips will be May 5th thru 14 with Jim Kells and Duane Powell co leading the team. The May team has openings, but the others seem to be full at this point. Please pray for safe travel for each of these teams.

Jodi Crimmel, Haiti Partnership

Report from Haiti

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:34:50 -0400

Hey, this is Roger Richards, chair of Haiti Partnership, writing from Port au Prince. We await our November team’s arrival tomorrow in advance of Hurricane Tomas. We expect the team to wait at the guest house in PaP until after the storm passes. There may be as many as 60 here so we should all be very friendly! If the roads are open, we’ll go to Hermitage on the southern coast probably Sunday and work on the school and clean water project next week. If not, we are exploring alternative work sites closer to PaP.

We had an excellent team last week at Les Cayes on the southern coast and have asked that our January team return there working on the church at Torbeck. Please keep our team in your prayers and the people of Haiti and the many VIMs here as there will be great hardship for Haitians in the face of Tomas.

Roger

An introduction

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:37:00 -0400

Welcome to the Haiti Network!

On Saturday, October 30, 2010, representatives from the Haiti Partnership of the Upper New York and Susquehanna Conferences of the United Methodist Church, the Haiti Connection of Lansing UMC and Grand Island Trinity UMC met in Lansing, NY to discuss progress made since the January 12 earthquake and further steps that will be taken in the coming months in Haiti.

It was there that representatives decided a blog was the best way to keep everyone in each group, as well as anyone from the public who is interested, updated on the work each of the groups is doing in Haiti.

In the coming months, representatives from each group will post updates and links to additional information.

Here are some other bits of information from this first meeting:

+ Our next meeting will be April 2, 2011 in Syracuse.

+ Haiti Partnership’s website: HaitiPartnership.com

+ The website for Pure Water for the World, the organization Haiti Partnership is partnering with for their clean water project in L’Hermitage, Haiti (past Jacmel near Bainet): purewaterfortheworld.com

+ The website for Feed My Starving Children, a Christian organization that packages meals to send to hungry children all over the world (40% of their meals go to Haiti): fmsc.org

Check back soon for more updates!