See what happens when you pull out a camera in Haiti? That’s what we like- healthy, happy children! Can you pick out your sponsor child?

Yippee! I have a sponsor, now! Thank you, Sarah Beth Ebbert! Name: Wislene IsenardinGender: FemaleBirthday: 1/6/98 Age: 10I am sponsored! 4/08

What:Teachers are needed to help develop a kindergarten curriculum for theCabaret Baptist SchoolIn Bercy, Haiti Where: Panera’sI-295 & BlandingWhen: Tuesday, April 29, 20086pm This school is a mission of the Jacksonville Baptist Association and is sponsored and funded entirely through gifts from friends and partnering churches. For information please contact : Cheryl Merritt ,Haiti mission...

I wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of you for faithfully supporting the JBA Haiti mission for these first ten years. I also would like to thank you for encouraging and praying for our family. As you’ve probably heard through recent news coverage, Haiti is experiencing a food crisis. Although this crisis is not unique to Haiti and is being felt world-wide, Haiti is especially hard hit...

News reports on the Crisis in Haiti USCOAST GUARD RECOVERS 20 BODIES NEAR BAHAMAS HAITIANS INTERCEPTED AT SEA HAITIANS CONTINUE TO FACE SEVERE FOOD SHORTAGES

Rising prices are affecting ministries like ours who are trying to give aid to the Haitian people.It is difficult to maintain the current level of assistance against such steeply rising prices at a time when even more and more people turn to these ministries for help in order to simply survive. You can read about some of these situations here.

I have written and edited and begun this post anew many times. It is very difficult to put my thoughts and emotions in print. It is difficult even to capture those thoughts and feelings as they ping pong through my head & heart. The situation in Haiti is very bad. People have run out of money in their attempts to feed their children. They are desperate. Desperate people do and say uncharacteristic...

It has been a difficult week in Haiti. The food crisis that has been felt the world over is causing steeply rising prices not only in food, but also in fuel and other essentials, has been especially difficult in Haiti where so many were already unable to feed their families or find employment. Read about it here. Prices have risen at an unimaginable level- most necessities have risen as much as 30%...

Thank you all for continuing to pray for the Mandarin Baptist and Ocean Park Baptist mission teams while we are in Haiti this week! We went to the prison yesterday, on Wednesday, to feed the prisoners. The pastor and church members from the church here, Cabaret Baptist, also went with us to the prison. Groups of us would go from cell to cell and pray for and over the inmates, hoping that even a loving...

Mandarin Baptist Church and Ocean Park Baptist mission team from Jax, FL arrived on Saturday safely and are having a great time! On Sunday, we attended the church service and took the orphanage children to the beach in the afternoon. It was a fun day! Monday we began work in the school and on construction projects. Armando has preached several times in the church services and spoke on the radio on...