Our house

Our house from the road, we live on a corner lot.



Security!  All the way around the house.




The front hallway.  Two gates to get in.







The living room.



The kitchen

 

The spare room, come and visit anytime!



The master bedroom!



Chloe's toys

  





The batteries to store electricity when we are not receiving electricity.



The generator.



The water pump to get water to our roof top so we can have water in our house.

  

A job well done!

Thank you Andre and Curtis for making the trip from Ontario, Canada to Adoration Christian Center in Port au Prince, Haiti.  We are thankful for the work that you could accomplish and the mentorship that you provided for the helpers that came faithfully every single day.  In the six days that you were there you accomplished a lot: you built a storage room, you built closets for the church and the kitchen, you put in a new sky light, you made a handwashing station, you fixed the teachers desks, you worked on the downstairs floor, you put in and fixed many doors and the list goes on and on.  However we are most thankful for the time you took to train and help those that volunteered there services at the school. 

Andre mentoring one of the helpers



Drilling the hole for the new hand washing station.



Installing the basketball netting to keep the balls in the yard.



Curtis teaching how to grout properly.



Mastering the skill of rotoring!



Group shot after a delicious supper!  Thanks Andre



Adjusting the desk height.

Work Team

Curtis and Andre arrived in Haiti yesterday and were eager to start working.  We are thankful that they could arrive and help fix up parts of the building and build new parts of our school.  Today was their first day and they accomplished a lot of work with the help of some the secondary students. 

Curtis and Andre

Before the storage room was the there...

The finished product...

The inside of the storage room, a great use of the area!  Well done boys!! :)

The wheelchair ramp fixed and repaired. 

The secondary students lending a helping hand.

The new closets for the church and the kitchen.
Before:

The finished product:

The skylight in the middle of the building received a majar overall.  The old one had cracks everywhere and was in a lot of water.  The work team tore off the old one.  They raised the ridge to allow the hot air to escape and some cool air to come into the building.
The skylite during construction:

The finished project:

Working on the new concrete pad:

We have a Mailing Address!

Cornelius and/or Melinda Broersma
c/o Agape Flights PAP 26510
100 Airport Avenue
Venice, FL  34285


If anyone would like to send us mail, cards, packages...mail to the above address will be forwarded to a P.O. Box here in Port-au-Prince weekly.  Yay, I love mail :) 

This method of mailing is provided by a Christian Mission Oganization called Agape Flights.  They provide mail to Christian organizations in Haiti, Dominican Republic and Bahamas.  If you are sending a package the cost is whatever it costs you to send it to Florida.  However for us to receive it from Florida to us in Port au Prince, it would cost us an extra $1.50 a pound.  Packages should be limited to 40 lbs. maximum.  If anyone wants to cover the cost of shipping the package or make a donation to Agape Flights, attach an envelope to the outside of the box labelled Agape Office with your donation/payment inside.  Thanks a bunch. 

The final day for the teachers.

The teachers from Canada did an excellent job throughout the week.  The teachers from Adoration Christian School expressed there gratitude by sharing different ideas that they had learned throughout the week.  It was wonderful to see every teacher go up and get their certificates.  God truly blessed the time that was spent at Adoration!  We are thankful for the what could be taught, we are thankful for what could be learned.  We pray that the teachers will take these ideas and thoughts into the classrooms that they have and use them throughout the year. 

One of the teachers receiving her certificate for attending the seminars.

The teachers from Adoration thanking the Canadian teachers.

All those involved in the seminars throughout the week.

Thank you so much Al, Theresa, and Julie for travelling from Canada to Haiti to work along side the teachers from Adoration.  We are thankful for the knowledge that you shared and the experiences that you had in your own classrooms.  You showed that teaching in Canada is quite similar as teaching in Haiti.  Putting God first and foremost in the classroom is the key to a good teaching environment.  Thank you for everything you have done and may God bless you each in your walk.  Go with God!

CHLOE'S FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

Today was a very big day; Chloe's first day of school.  Chloe was so excited to start school that she jumped up out of bed right away when she woke up. She ran to Mindy and said "It is tomorrow mom, I am going to school!"  Chloe has started junior kindergarten at Quisqueya Christian school.  There are nine other students in her class.  She goes to school from 8 o'clock until lunch time.  She was very happy when I picked her up and showed me a sticker she had received for "good listening". 

Chloe all dressed up in her school uniform and backpack.

Proud parents of their daughter's first day of school. 

Chloe's spot at the table she is sharing.

Teachers Hard at Work

Each teacher got a chance to hang their paper mache ball

Two of the teachers painting their paper mache balls.

Randy and Ilda coming up with questions for journal writing.

Studying the Bible for questions