Merry Christmas!

Wishing you a Blessed Christmas from all of the staff at

École Chrétienne Adoration!

Randy doing a devotion on "The King is coming" at our closing assembly. Below is a picture of all the students and parents who attended. At the assembly awards were given as well as their report cards for the first and second controle.
Giving out awards to children who were never late or never absent, put forth the best effort as well as 1st place in each class.

The Kindergarten children showing off their Christmas artwork
And.... Santa even comes to Haiti... we're not sure how well the sleigh works where there is no snow... although it almost looks white here with all the dust, it's been over a month since the last rain!

Random Pics

Beach Bums... just showing how hard we worked last week!

The Kindergarten children learning their J, K, L Lining up for the singing of the national anthem

This ones for Anita

About a hundred or more people and garbage trucks and backhoes drove down the schools road today and cleaned up a pile of garbage, they were from the mayors office

Before Last and Last work day

The almost finished product Ed paintin it up
All the kids put their handprints on the wall

Peter in charge of the handwashing station

Sandy helping the kids with their handprints

The Amazing team!


The pre-almost finished product

Barry attempting to cut out the tree trunk.... it took a good part of the day to conquer that one



The painters painting the wall while the guys prepare the concrete

Mixing the concrete while the school kids supervise from the road

Day 4... still going at it!

The basketball court that the men are re-cementing tomorrow

Henry working on the new desk in the office Sandy brightening up the school
The children at the school just sharing some love

Dr. Ed putting a splint a on a little girls ankle

day 3 of work

Maman Manise enjoying her new counter! Bob building some more tables and benches
Adria sprucing up the school with some paint

1 man working, 3 watching... that's pretty standard isn't it?

Some of the team members.... and others

A bunch of the guys helping out with the painting Peter working hard
Gwen and Ed working together.... or trying to work together :) Good Father, daughter comradeship

Sandy hanging out with the children during recreation
Barry and Rob working hard together

The Before and In Progress

We've got a team of 10 joining us for the next week. They all arrived safely on the weekend. 4 from Abbotsford B.C. and 6 from Canada. We are having a GREAT time with them. Just thougt I'd post two pictures to show you the progress they've made in two days! Please pray that we may continue to have a blessed week together and that the work may be enjoyable and the fellowship sweet, and that God's love may shine through it all.
After today: Before they arrived:

Nicole, Sherri, and Andrew

We love our guests so much that they are the title to this post. We were so thankful to have Nicole deJonge and Andrew and Sherri deJager join us for 2 weeks! They were great company and brought with them so many gifts and donations from Canada. They also got a lot of work done in the two weeks that they were here.

Here they are painting the school name on the gate.
Andrew and Sherri with their weapons.
I recieved a snorkel set for my birthday and was so excited to try it out. Here I am with Cadeau, swimming in the ocean at Kaliko, trying to teach him to breath through the snorkel.

Andrew and Samuel building a door for the outside washroom.A picture of the school building. We have finished scraping the walls and they need to be painted now. During the last two weeks we were able to paint the name of the school on the top, and also install the baskeball nets, and put up the flagpole. So things will look a little different now from this angle. The Kindergarten classes, sporting new pictures and bulletin letters sent by John Calvin Christian School, Smithville.




Some children at Adoration.

Sherri and Nicole working on the sponsorship program for the students. They did an excellent job taking pictures despite the fact that Sherri still hasn't learned how to spell her name :)

Walking to church Sunday morning.

Andrew, building screens for the ti-kay, with help by many of the students.

My wife, at her desk at the school, hard at work.

We recieved many donations from people and groups in Canada. John Calvin Christian School in Smithville raised money and donated many school supplies. They also sent a letter and some pictures of their school. So we translated it into Creole and hung it up on the wall. The students and teachers love looking at the pictures. A Big thank-you to all who donated supplies and tools. We are very grateful for them all!


Here we have Sherri and Nicole, who are expert wood craftspersons, building tables for the students. The guys gave them a little help on the side too.















Here is Nicole painting the ti-kay (little house).




Sherri, stunning us with her Settlers playing abilities. Always have time for a game.