Cheryl's New NVM Craft Workshop!!

My passion is to see the ladies in Chambrun and Onaville earn an income to provide for their families and deepen their love for the Lord.  Right now this is happening for over 60 ladies.

There are 20 ladies in Chambrun and 10 ladies in Onaville who are are earning an income by hand rolling paper beads.  A number of these ladies are using their beads to make jewelry. They are also learning to combine glass beads and their rolled beads to design necklaces and bracelets.  Their work is being sold in the NVM Project Hope Gift Shop here on the NVM Compound to teams who come to minister here in Haiti. And by using God's Word during our devotions, their personal relationship with Christ is being transformed and their love for the Lord is deepening!

We also have 33 ladies in Onaville hand rolling fabric onto rope to create beautiful baskets that are also sold in the NVM Project Hope Gift Shop.  These baskets have also helped to provide an income for their families. The Basket Class will be graduating on July 25th and the ladies will be starting their own businesses here in Haiti.  The basket class is held at the Worship Chapel of Nehemiah in Onaville which is a NVM church plant.  A new class will start on August 8th for another 30 ladies who will start to learn how to create beautiful handmade baskets. The goal again is for them to earn an income and deepen their relationship with the Lord.  What a blessing it is to build into the lives of these ladies.  Both of these classes are now being run by Haitian women (seen below), which has been one of my high priority goals. I now have the privilege of being their support system.

Madame Pastor Julie

Regine Orange

It has been such a blessing for me to see these ladies grow by learning a skill that can help improve their living conditions and see them grow in their love for the Lord.  They are now sharing openly about their struggles and they each have a prayer partner.

One story in particular is about a young mother with 7 children!  Because of her skill in making the jewelry and and the sales of her items to teams coming to the NVM Compound, she has been able to build her own brick home and has been able to buy the products to make and sell food near her home.

She now has her own small business!  She sees this all as a blessing from the Lord through her work at NVM.  She is a faithful church attender here at the Worship Chapel in Chambrun and a very good mother to her 7 children.  We are constantly seeing lives like hers being changed here at NVM - moving them from darkness to light from hopelessness to eternal life.

The jewelry work at the NVM Compound is now being done in a new NVM Workshop - where the ladies can sit in the comfort of air conditioning on our 98 degree days.  Pastor Pierre has built a workshop out of one of the containers connected to the NVM school kitchen. Some of you have helped to contribute to the funds that were needed for this!  Thanks!  As you can see from the pictures....the ladies have lots of beads and work space in their new NVM WORKSHOP.  They are so blessed at the love and care that is shown to them.

Workshop is the container on the right

Over 800 team members each year visit NVM to be involved in mission projects. Many of them shop in the NVM Project Hope Gift Shop. This is a tremendous blessing to the ladies making the jewelry and baskets.

Most of the ladies have become very dear friends here in Haiti.  It is a blessing to work along side them and see their lives transformed.

Serving on your behalf in Haiti,
Jim & Cheryl Warner