Visiting Our New Friends

It's Thursday! And the GAiN team spent the day working on some final projects on the compound. But the highlights of the day were two trips to visit local communities. In the morning the team visited Chambrun which is a very poor community less than a half mile from NVM. Most of our ministry is focused on the people living in this community. And in the afternoon they were taken on the 30-minute drive to the NVM church plant in Onaville. This is the largest displacement camp in Haiti and is home to over 200,000 people. All of these people were displaced from their homes after the earthquake in January of 2010. It was a great experience for the team members to visit these two communities.

Chambrun
The NVM nurses have developed wonderful relationships with many in Chambrun. The team members had the chance to meet some of them. And of course, play with and hold the children.

It is a short walk to Chambrun from NVM 

Kids like to have fun - everywhere 

The kids love to see photos! 

Showing some love 

Soccer - the international sport 

Man to man! 

Most of the homes are made from sticks and mud 

Posing for the camera 

The NVM Children's home in Chambrun will be moving to NVM soon

Onaville
Most of the people living in Chambrun were living in Port-au-Prince before the earthquake. Most of them lost family members in the disaster and were uprooted and moved to a large temporary city at the base of a mountain just outside of town. However, Onaville is now becoming their permanent home. Houses are being built and businesses are starting. The new city stretches for over 6 miles and is home for 220,000 people.

From the hillside, Onaville is an amazing sight

The church has drilled a well

And sell clean water at a greatly reduced rate 

The new church and property

The team on the mountain side 

You have to love the kids

Thank you for your prayers for this team. We have had a wonderful week of ministry. And we realize that spiritual success only happens when God is involved. And he has responded to your prayers. The team will rest tomorrow after a long, hot week of work. They will then return to the USA on Saturday. We will post one more time on this team to summarize their work and to give some final thoughts.

Serving on your behalf in Haiti,

Jim & Cheryl Warner