The last month has been an amazing and blessed month for ReachHaiti Ministries! We have hosted 2 big teams, and after 14 months of hard work, we have moved the kids into their new homes in Gidon!

The last week of June and the first week of July, we hosted 2 big teams at the ReachHaiti Mission House. The first team was from Fairview United Methodist Church from Maryville, Tennessee. The team of 16 worked really hard throughout the week and had a very busy and productive week! We had 5 days of Vacation Bible School in 2 different locations, ReachHaiti Church on Santo 19 and a tent city behind our house. They averaged around 80-125 kids at each location everyday! They taught the kids a very important lesson, “You are special to God.”

While the VBS went on, some of the men worked to stucco the outside of ReachHaiti Church on Santo 19. Now, both the outside and inside of the church have been stuccoed, and it looks great! The team also held a 3-day pastors conference for all the ReachHaiti pastors and leaders in our network. We also had 2 men who completed all the electrical wiring on the new compound making it ready to move in! Each evening was spent showing the Jesus Film or doing outreach outside. Thanks Fairview for such an amazing and fruitful week!

To watch Fairview’s Team Video, click here .

The second team was from Frontline Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The team of 13 helped us with finishing projects on the new compound and getting it ready to move the kids into their new homes including painting the new lockers, painting the tables and benches for the cafeteria, putting up name plates on each child’s locker, cleaning all the houses, and making them pretty for the kids! The team spent a lot of time with our kids playing games, loving on them, and having fun! They spent each evening doing outside outreaches or showing the Jesus Film. We also had a fun trip to the beach with the team, our staff, and all 26 kids! It was a blast! Their last day here was a day we have waited for 14 months now: moving the kids into their new homes! They celebrated the move by having a Warrior Party for all the boys and a Princess Party for all the girls! Thanks Frontline for a blessed and joyous week for us and our kids!

To watch Frontline’s team video, please click here .

The kids moved into their homes on July 7th and are so happy there! Right now, we have 2 homes for the boys and 2 homes for the girls. We also have the bathhouse complete with 4 separate bathrooms each containing a sink, toilet, and shower. We have a nice, big cafeteria and kitchen where all the kids can eat together and play inside. We have lots of open spaces for soccer games and playing outside.

We also finished all the plumbing and have run water lines outside our wall for the community. Currently, we have 3 faucets outside the wall for the community to come and fill up their buckets a few times each day without having to manually pump water from the community well. This has been a huge blessing to the community of Gidon, and they are very grateful for it! The long line at their well has decreased since we added the faucets. We hope the well will be a blessing not just to us, but to everyone in Gidon now that we can offer free water!

We want to thank all of the many teams we have hosted in the past year who have come and worked on the new compound to make all of this happen in only 14 months! Since October 2010, we have had 120 people stay with us in our mission house. We have 4 more teams scheduled already for the next few months which will house at least 40 more people. Currently, we have one house that we use to host our teams which also serves as Mike and Andrea’s home. It’s almost time to renew our lease here so we have been looking for a larger mission house so we may have more space to ourselves. However, an opportunity has presented itself with the house right across the street from this house which would allow us to rent both houses for the next year for less than renting one larger house. This would give us a home to live in and also a separate mission house just a few yards away. If you are interested in helping us rent both houses for the next year, you may donate on our website by clicking here or checks may be mailed to ReachHaiti Ministries P. O. Box 5945 Maryville, TN 37802. Please designate for House Rent. We need to raise an additional $5,500 to what we raised last year to make this happen. Haiti requires one-year in advance rental payment; you can not pay by the month.
We would like to share a big praise report with all of you! Our network has planted 2 new churches in the last 2 months in the mountains! Praise the Lord for sending out your workers to further advance the Gospel in the more remote areas here in Haiti! Thanks to everyone who has supported us this year and helped make our ministry possible!

Mike and Andrea Brewer
Founders, ReachHaiti Ministries
ReachHaiti@gmail.com