Christmas Program

On December 22 the school had it's Christmas program.  The teachers did a great job decorating under the tent for the occasion and Wislande (Gr 1 teacher) and Roodvens (Gr 3 teacher) were the MC's for the morning.  They had the crowd clapping, laughing and singing.  Each of the classes presented a short presentation, most of them a song, the younger classes had cute little actions with the song that half of the class did, while the other half looked at them.  And after the presentations were over awards and report cards were given out as Christmas is also the end of the first controle (there are 3 controles in a year)

Wislande MCing the program

It was a full house!

Emmanuel serenading us with the recorder

Kindergarten II singing a Christmas carol

The Grade 2 class singing a Christmas carol

Alix presenting Hermite with her award

Posing with the plaque we received from the staff

At the end of the program the staff surprised us by giving us a plaque for our dedication to education in the community.  It was a really sweet gesture.  We are far from experts in education and we have made a lot of mistakes in the past and will continue to do so in the future.  AND the only reason we have a good education program is because we have a GREAT staff who is dedicated to their students and community... we should really be giving them all a plaque. We are, however, thankful for the community where the Lord has placed Adoration and pray that the Adoration can continue to be a community project and that through it Jesus Christ may be worshiped and adored.

Staff Pictures

Adoration Christian Centre Staff 2011-2012



the WHOLE staff, Directors, teachers, asssistants, property supervisors,
disaster relief staff, gatekeeper, runner (missing the cooks)



Adoration Christian School Teachers

"the Guys"
Cadeau, Yder, Randy, Cornelius, Samuel

And, we'll just sneak a Family Picture in here too

Staff Par-T

Our annual staff party was held the weekend before Christmas.  It was GREAT having all the staff and their families together for some games and food.  We had 64 people all together laughing, eating, talking, giggling and a few little ones crying... 

It is always such a joy to see our staff members with their families.  It's always a good reminder too that some of them have a lot of responsibility outside of the school as well.  Seeing them helping their wives and their love and devotion for their children brings a smile to my heart and knowing that they are providing for their family because they have a job through Adoraiton makes me thankful for Adoration and the opportunities it is giving to the community.
There were some great pictures from the day, I've just chosen a few to show you the yummy food, the intense games and the good fellowship that was enjoyed that afternoon.

One, very intense, bocce game

Mindy with Maman Manise's little baby girl

The party wouldn't have been success if it wasn't for Rolland and his wife
and friend who prepared us some amazing Hatian food!

Eating up all that yummy food!

Women's Bible Study

Tuesday afternoons are spent worshipping with my Haitian sisters in the Lord.  One of the things that we have been doing lately is what they call an "action", we visit a different ladies home every week and spend time in worship, praying for that household and encouraging that sister in the Lord.  In December is was our turn to host, it was a beautiful time of worship, fellowship and was truly encouraging as they lifted our family and our home up in prayer.  Love these ladies and their hearts for the Lord!

Month of Prayer

December was a month of prayer and fasting at the school.  Throughout the month we, as well as our staff, took different opportunities to pray for different needs of the centre, the school, fellow staff members and the students.  Some of the things that we did throughout the month included morning prayer services held at 6 every morning with short devotionals, each class made a poster of prayer requests, a topic was chosen every day for the school to be praying for, time was spent in the classrooms praying over the teachers, time was spent praying for each student by name, etc.  It was a really encouraging month and we saw answered prayers and people being encouraged by the Word of the Lord. 
We have some BIG things at Adoration that continously need prayer and so the month of December was a time to once again lay them before the throne of God ... but even though December is over we are still laying them down.
Some of the BIG things that we are praying for and we'd love for you to join us in praying for are:

• Land for the organization
• Registration of Adoration Christian School
• Registration of Adoration Christian Centre

"Pandan n'ap fè tou sa, pa jamn bliye lapriyè.  Mande Bondye konkou li.  Lapriyè nan tout sikonstans avèk pouvwa Sentespri a.  Se poutèt sa, pa kite dòmi pran nou, kenbe fèm nan sa n'ap fè a.  Lapriyè pou tout pèp Bondye a"  Efiz 6:18

"praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication.  To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints."  Eph 6:18

Barahona

Shortly after we got back from Canada, 2 days later, we were able to head to the Dominican Republic for a spiritual retreat along with staff from both the Dominican and Haiti CRC offices.  The people who work for the CRC office in Haiti are kind of like family to us in Haiti, we love them dearly and are very thankful that they allow us to tag along to different events, this spritual retreat being one of them.  This weekend was hugely needed for Randy and I.  We slept a lot, worshiped, fellowshipped, dug into the Word, were challenged, encouraged, cried, and laughed.  One of the exercises we did during one of the sessions was extremely tough but good and the result of the exercise really allowed us to clearly see how the Lord has carried us through the years and how He is Faithful!  It was a good reminder for us.  God is good.

I had a few more pictures picked out but our internet is going really slow... I've been uploading these pictures for three days!  So 3 pictures will have to suffice 

The group spending time in worship

Randy and Levi spending some time on the beach

Maia loving the pool!

Playing Catch Up

So... the blog has been silent for a little bit.  I've had good intentions of updating it but it just always got put to the bottom of the to do list.  Well today is the day of doing the stuff on the bottom of the list, it's been sitting there for two months time to get it done!  So here we go...

In October and a good part of November we were able to spend some time in Canada.  Word and Deed has speaking tours every fall and they choose one of their projects to be the keynote speakers at the dinner.  This year the project was Adoration Christian Centre and so Randy and myself did some of the dinners while Kim did the others.  And since we were in Canada we got to enjoy time some special time with friends and family.

Maia hanging out by the pool with Jacoba and Allie

Levi's 1st Birthday!  He's not sure what to think of the sparkler

Photo Op with Grandma and Grampa

My sister Nicole and I after we finished our 5K race in support of Edu Deo Ministries

Playing Play-dough with Lean in Ottawa

Enjoying the green gass with cousins Caleb and Logan

Princess Snowhite with Oma

Reading the safety instructions, in case of emergency....

Thank you to all those who helped make our trip enjoyable.  We did a whirlwind dinner tour on the West Coast and a lot of different people helped to accomodate us and give us a vehicle, Thank You!  Also thanks to Grandma and Grampa and Oma and Opa and Aunt Cole for looking after our kiddos while we traveled around, you guys are the bestest!  And thanks to all those who attended the dinners and encouraged us in our work as well as assured us of your prayers for ourselves as well as the whole organzation, we appreciate you!

www.ADORATION.net

Adoration recently had a facelift in the PR department.  Our new website just recently went live on the worldwideweb, check it out at http://www.adoration.net/. 
Also check out Adoration Christian Centre on Facebook and please "like" us. 

First day of school... three weeks ago!

sorry, this is very, very, very late post!  I had the blog post done a couple days after school started but of course my internet crashed before I posted... I know excuses, excuses.  Better late than never, right?
The first day of school, three weeks ago!, was once again a reminder of why we are here doing what we are doing.  Seeing the students eagerly awaiting for school to start and seeing the teachers preparing and welcoming the teachers always gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside.  I love the first day of school.  There is so much excitement for the coming year.  We at Adoration are excited to see what the Lord has in store for this coming year... "There is no one like our God!  Greater things are yet to come, greater things are still to be done in this city" (Chris Tomlin - God of This City)
Enjoy the pictures!

One of our Sponsor students, Denalie, his mother has set up a
pate (yummy deep fried treats) stand outside the gate

The Grade 6 boys trying to not look too excited for the first day of school



Adoration staff gearing up for the first day of school
and laying it all before the Lord in prayer



Randy leading the school in devotions
"I can do all things through Him who gives me strength"

 

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Levi's first day of school!



Maia enjoying the first day of school

One Stop Market

If you visited us here in Haiti before the earthquake chances are that you've heard of, or been to, the OneStop Market.  One Stop, like many buildings, crumbled to the ground on January 12.   When Randy drove by One Stop the day after the earthquake he was pretty conviced that no one had stepped out of the bottom floor alive, people on the street told him otherwise.  God was merciful and had spared everyone inside.





This past week was again a reminder of God's faithfulness. 

Tarek, a good friend of ours (because we can beat him in Settlers and Farkle!)and his Uncle had the grand opening of their new store, One Stop Market.  It's in a new location and it's a totally different store but the management is the same. 

Tarek and Trisha, we are so thankful to have been able to celebrate One Stop's Grand Opening with you and we pray that the One Stop Market may be used for His Glory here in Haiti.

Entrance to the New One Stop

First time entering!

Tarek and his beautiful wife Trisha

Levi perusing the One Stop Aisles



A basket full of Levi



Poko

Adoration is almost ready to start the 2011-2012 school year... all we are waiting for is the government! 

The first day of school was supposed to be in September but unfortunately the Ministry of Education announced late in August that the first day of school won't be until October 3rd.  Since we are a Haitian school and we try to follow the Ministry of Education's school calendar we are waiting till October 3. 

I won't get into all the reasons as to why this is frustrating but instead we'll focus on the positive, the extra time it gives our teachers for planning and decorating their classrooms....



Annelle (Special Ed Teacher) preparing decorations for her classroom



Ilda (Special Ed Assistant) making an Alphabet board



Node (Kindergarten II) and Ketie (Kindergarte II assistant) preparing lesson plans



NB We do have male teachers but they somehow didn't make it on the camera the day I took these pictures!