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<br />Bill Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13837798006711810129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968408242801502604.post-59893519722124869662015-04-08T21:43:00.001-04:002015-04-08T21:43:48.257-04:00<b>An Update on the Georges</b><br />
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I received an email from Kendall the other day and learned that things are going well and they are settling into their new life. They are living with Kendall's folks and are enjoying time with family and letting everyone fall in love with Patrick. Kendall went to a job interview and was hired on the spot for a permanent position at a temp agency. As we all know, she makes a very good first impression and will do a wonderful job with them. Patrick is getting used to American life and is considering doing some on the job electrical training with Kendall's Dad. He's enjoying time at their cross-fit gym and is even trying his hand at cooking - preparing Haitian food for the family! (Never saw that one coming!)<br />
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Bondye beni nou Kendall & Patrick! <br />
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<br />Bill Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13837798006711810129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968408242801502604.post-36389519885498773102015-03-02T15:49:00.001-05:002015-03-02T15:49:22.879-05:00Our Growing FamilyWe proudly introduce the two newest family member's of Alex's House, Diore(pronounced like Joey) and Lourdemia. They were brought to Alex's House several months ago by IBERS, the Haitian governing body of orphanages. Their mother is severely disabled and unable to continue caring for them. We took them in to foster will IBERS further investigated their situation. They are now officially a part of the Alex's House family.<br />
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Favorite Color: Yellow<br />
Favorite Food: Rice mixed with beans and legume(a mixed vegetable dish)<br />
Favorite Subject: Grammar<br />
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Diore is such a great big brother. On one of pairs first days at Alex's House, he brought over his water cup for Lourdemia because she hadn't received one yet. We explained that she would get her own cup of water and he could keep his! He does great with school work. Micky keeps him in line and makes sure he knows his lesson each day for school. Like most other Haitian boys, Diore loves to play soccer. He has a big smile and is just a generally content eight year old!<br />
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Favorite Color: Red<br />
Favorite Food:White rice, bean sauce and legume(a mixed vegetable dish)<br />
Favorite Subject: Math<br />
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Lourdemia is a lively, extremely girly seven year old. She loves having her hair fixed and likes to fix others hair. Her naturing side can be seen when she is playing(ok sometimes bossing)Widena and Wislove. Lourdemia loves to play with dolls and fashion new clothes for them. She has the cutest snaggled tooth grin!<br />
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Both children are in need of full sponsorship-Daily Bread, Child to School, and Life Skills. If you would like more information on sponsoring Diore or Lourdemia, please contact our Sponsorship Director Monica Langdale at monica@alexshouseorphanage.org. We hope you come to visit us soon and meet our new family members!Bill Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13837798006711810129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968408242801502604.post-60362427086171093912015-01-31T11:52:00.000-05:002015-02-02T12:07:17.060-05:00Children's Leaders Conference<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKcpEEnf4pOihHtpXQ0t7nwHB9JgMmIQfwL5y0qezgUXkW_R1YnaSN35N5bc3a0sOTAK76DkFXcWP_4c-OgD1GjprlatkP6QdBAHufLA8bL7bTNWpCRt10YN5DWBaEZQkkShPqnS2ig0E/s1600/Training.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKcpEEnf4pOihHtpXQ0t7nwHB9JgMmIQfwL5y0qezgUXkW_R1YnaSN35N5bc3a0sOTAK76DkFXcWP_4c-OgD1GjprlatkP6QdBAHufLA8bL7bTNWpCRt10YN5DWBaEZQkkShPqnS2ig0E/s1600/Training.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></a>Alex's House hosted a three day Children's Leaders Conference led by Hope Community <br />
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Each day a variety of sessions including teaching, small group challenges, discussion questions, worship and demonstrations were presented. Teaching sessions focused on why it is important to teach children, the differences in teaching children and adults, how to use objects from your surroundings to enhance teaching and different methods for conveying a message. <br />
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Attendees were split into groups and given different passages that teach about the importance of children. Discussion prompts directed them to look at how children were involved in the scripture and what that says about the importance of children. After studying the passage in their small groups, they presented the meaning of the passage to the large group. Attendees took the studying very seriously and had great insight to share with the group. <br />
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A presenter spoke on the differences in teaching children versus adults. This lesson was one that really resounded with the pastors and leaders. In a follow-up discussion with Pastor Frito of Pierre Payen, he told Conference Director Steve Haddix that he had been teaching his children as if they were adults. From the conference, he learned children cannot learn in the same way as adults. He plans to get volunteers from his church to teach children separately now on Sunday mornings.<br />
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The group gave examples of how to teach through music using hand motions, reading a story from a book using character voices and having children involved in a skit. After the session, groups were given a story prompt and had to come up with the best method to share the story with a group. They first had to identify the main point of the story and then tell how to best teach it. Several groups said a skit was the best teaching method while another used finger puppets to demonstrate their main point.<br />
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Conference Director Steve Haddix said he was uncertain of the reception his team would receive going into the conference. Would the methods used in US to teach children translate cross- culturally? At the conclusion of the three day conference he was blown away with the level of participation by attendees. He had several post conference discussions with pastors who were eager to implement the teaching methods they learned.<br />
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Alex's House extends a huge thank you to the members of Hope Community Church who spent many hours prepping for the conference! We pray that the training will impact many children in Haiti for the gospel. <br />
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Hello Alex’s House Family!</div>
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I want you to know how grateful I am for the love, support
and prayers you offered Alex’s House in 2014.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Our children are happy and growing and through you, the Lord has met all
of our needs. Your love and support is literally changing the lives of our
children!</div>
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This February will be a great milestone in our history – our
5<sup>th</sup> anniversary!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I stand in
awe at the amazing progress the Lord has allowed us to make in these few short
years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, there’s a trembling in my
spirit as well - for as you know, the Lord does not allow us to stay in one
place for very long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The Lord has given me clarity in where we should go
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<a href="http://alexshouse-haiti.blogspot.com/p/2015-fund-raiser.html">Piercing the Darkness.</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The video and the
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After watching, if you agree that the Lord is calling us in
these new efforts, please make a generous donation to help the vision become a
reality.</div>
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You have been so faithful in standing with me in this
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Thank you for your faithful financial support, your prayers
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Bill Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13837798006711810129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968408242801502604.post-21290264892470617622014-09-02T18:12:00.001-04:002014-09-09T14:46:10.508-04:00Mission Calendar for 2015By the end of 2014, over 250 people will have served on mission teams at Alex's House within the year! We had team members from Colorado to West Virginia, from Michigan to Alabama and New Mexico to South Carolina. Because of the reach of these teams, Alex's House held medical clinics, trained leaders in children's ministry, taught adult Bible classes and ministered to local widows. Mission teams allow us to go beyond the walls of the children's home to minister in the local communities.<br />
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We hope you can join us in 2015 as we continue to reach the least of these for Christ. This next year we will continue with children's ministry, adult ministry, women's ministry, sports ministry and medical missions at our ministry sites. In addition, the Lord has shown us the need to hold deeper training sessions for local leaders. We will host children leaders training, youth ministry training, pastors training and worship leaders training conferences in 2015.<br />
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Alex's House invites you to join us in 2015 to be a part of the work the Lord is continuing in Haiti. Check out our <a href="http://alexshouse-haiti.blogspot.com/p/short-term-mission-trips.html">missions page</a> for next year's schedule. If you have a church or missions group that would like schedule a trip, please contact our Missions Director, Kendall Moss at <a href="mailto:kendall@alexshouseorphanage.org">kendall@alexshouseorphanage.org</a>. We look forward to serving with you in 2015!Bill Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13837798006711810129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968408242801502604.post-77294342962951927272014-08-13T12:39:00.001-04:002014-08-13T12:39:40.620-04:00Alex's House Goes to Beach Camp<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After a busy schedule of mission groups this summer, we took the first week of August as a time of special celebration for our Alex's House Family-Beach Camp 2014! The excitement started weeks ago when flyers were posted announcing camp. Everyone hurried around to get the details of the upcoming event. You could hear children reading the details out loud then running to tell their brothers and sisters the news.<br />
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We spent Monday and Tuesday at a camp site in Pierre Payen. Each day we had an interactive Bible story, craft time, and recreation. The children studied creation and the effects of sin; they made pouches to carry fish and loaves from the story of Jesus feeding the 5000; and they played many games including jump rope races.<br />
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To end each day of camp, we spent time playing in the ocean. The big kids swam out to stand on the barrier and the littles splashed in the shallow end with beach toys.</div>
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On Thursday, we invited our friends from Pastor Louissant's Orphanage in Barboncourt to a day camp at our house. They were greeted at the door by our whole family singing "bienvenue a tout"- welcome us all. We sang together and opened in prayer. The Alex's House children gave our visitors a tour of our home, then we started our program. </div>
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We moved between four stations-Bible story, craft, creation book, recreation- and made it until almost the very end with all groups still intact! Each of the stations were led by Alex's House children. Our kids did a PHENOMENAL job of leading. They took their task to heart and did an excellent job of teaching our friends.</div>
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We headed back to Pierre Payen on Friday for our final day of beach camp. It was a joyous time of singing together, learning more about our Savior and having fun as a family. Everyone-kids and adults- had a wonderful time at camp. A special thank you to the Howard family for coming and leading Beach Camp 2014! Here's a final photo of us all enjoying our last day of camp.<br />
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They used the inspiration of the tropical backdrop of Haiti for the main portion of the mural. They also designed silhouettes for around the outer edges of the door.<br />
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Over the course of the week team members helped prep the door, paint base coats, and outline silhouettes. Next the artists went to work on the main focal point. The mural adds a nice pop of color to our home. After it was completed, many of the children would stand and gaze at the art!<br />
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Check out a few photos of our new mural. Thanks to the team from Welsh Baptist for our beautiful new artwork!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Artists Erin & Barb put the finishing touches on the almost complete mural.</td></tr>
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<br />Bill Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13837798006711810129noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968408242801502604.post-90595189685543135362014-06-19T11:29:00.000-04:002014-06-19T11:29:37.465-04:00Project Playground: COMPLETE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Project Playground: COMPLETE</span></b><br />
The kids have a fun new place to play. Like many things at Alex's House, our new playground was a team effort! It was the work of many that together created a beautiful new play structure for our children. <br />
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<b>A team from The Gathering in Illinois welded, measured, sawed, and hammered.</b> Their blood, sweat and tears were poured into the playground. The team did a great job of working quickly to get the project completed in one week!<br />
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<br />Bill Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13837798006711810129noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968408242801502604.post-26072889070253949442014-05-20T10:40:00.002-04:002014-05-20T10:40:33.643-04:00Let's Build a Playground!Alex's House has started developing the lot beside the York House! The land has been walled in, the transition home foundation has started and the land is being cleared. What will go on the land being cleared? A NEW PLAYGROUND! Our children are going to be so excited to have a place to play in the afternoons.<br />
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All the materials are designed and ready for you -flyers, play money, and fundraiser instructions. We just need your church to get involved. If your church would like to participate email kendall@alexshouseorphanage today to request the materials. Together we can build a playground!<br />
<br />Bill Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13837798006711810129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968408242801502604.post-56379043851690945872014-04-24T12:12:00.002-04:002014-04-24T21:34:18.736-04:00I love it when God works like that-Widow's Ministry<i>Alex's House is excited to announce a new ministry for widows in our surrounding communities. Read about this new focus from the words of co-director Debbie Weeks. Debbie has traveled to Haiti multiple times serving on medical, construction, Bible School and teaching conference teams.</i><br />
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<b>There are times in my life (when considering a certain
ministry opportunity)that I wonder, "Is it God's will for me to do this
certain thing, at this time?".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are other times, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it
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<b> as if the Lord is very clearly, NO DOUBT, saying, "This is what I
want you to do!"...I love it when God works like that!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is the way God spoke to me about
helping </b></div>
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<b>to set up the widow's ministry for Alex's House.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></div>
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reason I began learning the Haitian Creole language, was that I wanted to be
prepared for when God would give me the opportunity to talk with some of the
dear widows there. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted to be
able to talk with them "friend to friend", "face to face",
in their language. Each time I have gone, I have always been drawn to the dear
ladies of Haiti, but have never really had the chance to spend any time with
them, until the summer of 2013.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
afternoon, our team was able to provide lunch for a group of widows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We prayed with them, rubbed their hands
and feet with lotion, and praised the Lord together with them in song for a
couple of hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let me tell you,
I left a part of my heart with those dear ladies!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we prayed, sang, and cried together, I knew I would never
be the same. I knew God was giving me a longing to build relationships with
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One morning, the end of last year, I awoke very burdened for
the Haitian widows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I stood at
my kitchen sink, staring out the window, I began to feel discouraged, as I
wondered if I would ever get to minister to the Haitian widows again. (At the
time, Alex's House did not yet have an "official widow's ministry"
set up).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had not yet checked my
email for the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was
unusual for me, as it is usually the first thing I do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just prayed that the Lord would meet
their needs and If it was His will I would get to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>minister again to some of them.</div>
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After praying, I checked by email and noticed that there was
an email from Bill Howard, asking me if I would consider co-directing the new
"Widow's Ministry" for Alex's House!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wow, God is so good!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God was working behind the scenes working out the details to begin a
ministry to widows, and at the same time, placing a desire in my heart for
those widows!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I agreed to help organize and set up a plan for widow's
ministry in Haiti.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leah Wagner and
myself are co-directing this effort, with help from Missions Director Kendall Moss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please join us in praying
for this ministry and these dear widows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pray that we will follow the Lord's direction in how to best love,
serve, and most importantly, point them to our Savior, Jesus Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I am so very thankful for our God, who calls us and equips
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Debbie Weeks<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><i>NOTE: God has filled all four scheduled widow's ministry weeks for 2014! We have a few open slots. If you are interested, contact Kendall at kendall@alexshouseorphanage.org.</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can change the life of a child beyond the walls of
Alex’s House in Haiti! We need sponsors for our Education Sponsorship Program in Arachaie. Barboncourt is one of our partnering churches that also runs an orphanage with 33 children. Also, the church runs a school that provides education to over 100 children.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We recently secured a water storage
tank and filters so these children will have clean water to drink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the help of your sponsorship money, we will be able to send these children
to school and provide them with one hot meal a day. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a wonderful gift you can give to them!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For clarity: This sponsorship program is totally autonomous,
and is not part of Alex’s House. These children are in our surrounding
community and not under the roof of Alex’s House. This<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Education Sponsorship Program will not lend
itself to sending and receiving letters. However, there will be periodic
updates about the orphanage as a whole and you will have the opportunity to
visit your child while on a mission trip to Alex’s House.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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the difference you will make as their education sponsor. Jesus said <i>“let the little children come to me….for such is the Kingdom of Heaven.</i>” Please help Alex’s House reach
beyond our walls to feed and educate these precious children. </span></div>
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February marked the 4 year anniversary of Alex's House! The first week of March our Haitian staff planned a "fet" (Creole for party) to celebrate our birthday. We decorated Vaught Dining Hall, cooked up a fine meal and invited our partnering church leaders, our Haitian builders(those who constructed our buildings) and members of the community. We hope you enjoy a few snapshots from our party!</div>
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Praise the Lord! $116,000 has already been given towards our budget for 2014. Another $50,00 will be given throughout the year by our faithful Partnering Churches. That will put us over the $144,420 needed to provide for our children this year! Meci Jezi!<br />
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Alex's House is so grateful for our wonderful Partnering Churches and so many faithful supporter like yourself. You are making an incredible difference in the lives of our children and in the lives of those in the surrounding communities. God is doing great things through Alex's House! You are a great blessing to us!<br />
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Alex's House's cottages and dining hall have a new look with a special meaning. We would like to thank several of our supporters for their deep generosity in housing and feeding our children. </div>
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The Malachi Cottage - funded by Rick & Lynette Owens in memory and honor of Rev. Robert </h3>
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The Teresa Cottage - funded by Carl & Birgit Lumpkin in memory of Carl's sister Teresa - "a beautiful sister and daughter who is loved and missed greatly."</h3>
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Vaught Dining Hall - funded by the generosity of Mike & Gwen Vaught</h3>
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To meet our 2014 budget, we need to raise $144,420. That leaves us with $74,020 to go! Learn more about our 2014 Raise & Rescue Campaign <a href="http://alexshouse-haiti.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_31.html" target="_blank">here </a>and make your donation today!</div>
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Bill Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13837798006711810129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968408242801502604.post-38129302869762281862013-12-24T22:47:00.001-05:002013-12-24T22:48:14.780-05:00Christmas Tradition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We have a tree that we decorate in our dining hall. (This year it was decorated the day after Thanksgiving because that's when Mama Kendall always put her tree up with her family!)<br />
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The children made ornaments and paper chains to hang on the tree.<br />
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Our sponsor's come and bring presents for the children. LOTS of presents!<br />
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And just as any time we receive gifts, we take time to thank our sponsors with handwritten thank you notes!<br />
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<br />Bill Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13837798006711810129noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968408242801502604.post-56986487745027272002013-12-09T10:17:00.002-05:002013-12-09T10:36:00.212-05:00Big News From Two Of Our Dearest Friends!<style>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Hello everyone! This may be one of the hardest updates I've ever
written, but I wanted to inform everyone of my decision at the same time. You
are each a vital part of Alex's House and give so much of your time and energy
to our children -- whether in the US or on the field in Haiti. </span>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Unfortunately, I no longer have a peace about serving at Alex's
House's Mission Director. Every since my trip in September, I have
struggled and prayed over this "lack of peace" hoping that the Lord
would provide the peace needed to continue. However, He has not granted the
peace. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Instead, He has affirmed my decision to resign through numerous avenues.
For me to continue as AH Missions Director would be to disobey further
especially since He has made it so clear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Words cannot describe how much I love Alex's House! There is so much
of Alex's House in my home that there is not a day that passes that I'm not
reminded of my loved ones in Haiti! I have learned so much through
Haiti, the children and the Alex's House ministry. The road has been
difficult but the sacrifice as been worth every minute! I am forever grateful
for the opportunity to serve alongside of each of you, and have learned so much
from each of you --- what a blessing! Thank you for your patience and continued
love . . . despite Haiti exposing the "uglies of my heart"! I'm a
better follower of Christ having served with Alex's House, but still have a
long way to go! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Bill, I'll be happy to serve and provide guidance for the January
teams in order to help in the transition and tie up any loose ends that are
needed by you and/or Alex's House staff. Monica, our family still plans
to sponsor Willie, and we look forward to updates on him and the other
children! Perhaps, I can join a team every once in awhile to see the
children! Well, the floodgates have opened, so I need to grab some tissue.
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Love to each of you!! May the
Lord continue to bless Alex's House!</span></div>
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response to Amy’s decision, our founder Bill Howard wrote:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Amy - you have been a tremendous blessing to Alex's House and a
great support to me. You came on at a crucial time and provided a great
foundation for our mission ministry. Thank you for your professionalism,
your friendship and the untold hours of ministry you provided - all out of the
goodness of your heart and from the overflow of your love for Jesus. You
will always be a part of Alex's House and we are forever grateful for the time
the Lord allowed us to serve together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">We will pray for you as you follow the Lord in the future He is
unfolding. We know that you will continue to serve Him with passion - wherever
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Everyone, please join us in
saying thank you to Amy from the wonderful two years of ministry she gave
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in our hearts and we look forward to our continued friendship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">We have just recently become
aware that IBESR (Haiti’s governing body for orphanages) does not allow a
non-Haitian to serve as a house parent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Therefore, we were looking for other avenues of ministry for Kendall
Moss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">In addition to leading our
School Partnership Program, Kendall has agreed step in and fill the position of
Missions Director.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Due to the solid
groundwork provided by Amy Hobbs, we will now have an even more streamlined
service for our future mission teams.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once
a church/group contacts Alex’s House for a possible trip, Kendall will be the
one person to schedule the trip, answer all their questions, meet the group at
the airport, settle them into the York House, take them on their daily mission
projects, and then deliver them safe and sound back to the airport for their
departing flight!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will be a very
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Kendall is very qualified to
serve in this capacity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before coming to
Alex’s House in July of this year, she worked for Families Outreach as the
Director of Public Relations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Families Outreach
partners with orphanages in Haiti, South Africa, Ethiopia and China.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Part of her responsibilities included
planning and leading teams to these countries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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on teams to Kenya, Thailand, the Philippines, Haiti, Zambia, Uganda and South
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Bill Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13837798006711810129noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5968408242801502604.post-44096056669322984192013-11-28T09:45:00.000-05:002013-11-28T09:49:29.993-05:0032 Kids of ThankfulnessIf you are on social media at all during the month of November, you have surely seen an overload of thankful posts, tweets, photos, etc. We thought we'd join in so here is Alex's House spin on #31daysofthankfulness with our 32 Children of Thanks. Enjoy!<br />
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Each kids was asked "What do you say thank you to Jesus for?". Here are the responses we received:<br />
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"My birthday because we got to eat cookies," <b>Job</b>. <b>Vander</b> said, "for eating cookies at Job's birthday party." <b>Birthday parties leave a big impression around here!</b><br />
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Many more are thankful for school, lessons, learning and homework. Their thankfulness for learning makes you stop and think what's really important. (Not a one mentioned toys!)<br />
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<b>Estemania</b> for a head that let's me do good homework<br />
<b>Jeff</b> because I can learn<br />
<b>Mike </b>because Jesus let's me go to school<br />
<b>Mitchina </b>because I can know my lessons<br />
<b>Jerry</b> I am thankful Jesus sent me to school and brought me back home after having a good day.<br />
<b>Dawens </b>for my school. He gave me a head to learn.<br />
<b>Wilkens </b>because you gave me a mind to learn with<br />
<b>Remy</b> Thank you Jesus for school.<br />
<b>Rosemitha</b> Thank you Jesus for my lessons.<br />
<b>Micky </b>because I can go to school<br />
<b>Diaca</b> because I can do work. Thank you Jesus for everything you do for me.<br />
<b>Woody</b> Thank you Jesus I can go to school.<br />
<b>Nadege</b> because you give me everything. You make it so that I can go to school.<br />
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<b>Zachary </b>food, because he gives me and all the kids here food.<br />
<b>Lougens</b> for the food you gave me and for Jesus<br />
<b>Wawens </b>for the food you give me<br />
<b>Jenny </b>for the food you give me and my school<br />
<b>Pierre</b> my school and food<br />
<b>Sterline </b> for lessons and homework and for food<br />
<b>Widna </b>food, FOOD, <b>FOOD!</b><br />
<b>Carline </b>Thank you Jesus because I have food. Thank you Jesus because I can go to school.<br />
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<b>Kindy </b>for my whole family here<br />
<b>Wislove</b> for my hat<br />
<b>Brenkley </b>for singing<br />
<b>Willie</b> for juice<br />
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<b>Jersey </b>for school and books and sunshine and my house<br />
<b>Yveline</b> because he sends me to school, he lets me play, and he lets me know my lesson and do homework<br />
<b>Ephesien</b> because he gives the missionaries money so that they can send us to school(Mama Kendall teared up as I wrote this one down. Without a missed beat this was his first response. YOU make a difference every day in the life our children!)<br />
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Thank you to EVERYONE who has given to our Rescue & Raise '14 Campaign to raise our budget for the coming year. As you know, we have 32 children of our own and several hundred others we are ministering to through our seven partnering Haitian churches. <b>So far we have 32 people/families giving a total of $32,394! </b> If you haven't made your year-end donation, please do so today. We greatly need and appreciate your support.<br />
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To meet our 2014 budget, we need to raise $144,420. That leaves us with $112,026 to go! Learn more about our 2014 Raise & Rescue Campaign <a href="http://alexshouse-haiti.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_31.html" target="_blank">here </a>and make your donation today!<br />
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I pray that you've had a wonderful year and are anticipating a wonderful holiday season. This is the time of entering into a season of Thanksgiving for the blessings our Lord has given us. Then we move into the season where we thank Him for the greatest blessing of all - sending Jesus into the world as our Savior. Praise the Lord! I'm grateful and I'm blessed!</div>
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During this season, I'm asking that you would make a financial gift to be a blessing to our children at Alex's House. We are in our second annual Rescue and Raise campaign and are asking everyone who loves Alex's House to make an end of the year donation to provide for our children in 2014.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Alex’s House sends it’s blessing with Dominique Levy as she
transitions her ministry location from Haiti back to the U.S.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the last 11 months, Dominique has
served Alex’s House as a houseparent to our girls and as Life Skills
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us in Haiti. She came at a critical time for us and helped develop
policies and routines that improved our kitchen, financial accountability and
life skill ministry. Then of course, her greatest contribution was
pouring love into the lives of our children, especially the girls.</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Dominique will be returning to South Carolina with her children and
grand children and will continue to serve Alex’s House as our Life Skills
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the Lord will do through her ministry in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Pray for our staff as they are in the process of seeking the Lord’s
will for the person/couple who will come in and be a vital part of raising our
girls.</span></li>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Pray that the Lord would prepare the heart of this
individual/couple.</span></li>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Pray that the Lord would protect the hearts of the children during
this transition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Pray that the Lord would bless Dominique as she transitions back to
the U.S.</span></li>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Pray for the desperate children of Haiti whom the Lord will add to
our home this year. Pray that they would be protected and that the Lord will
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Enter to win a signed football from your favorite team!</h2>
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To support our Rescue & Raise Campaign for 2013, we are auctioning off footballs from some of your favorite schools! We have balls signed by the head coaches of Alabama, Auburn, Carolina, Clemson & UGA!<br />
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Visit our raffle page <a href="http://alexshouse-haiti.blogspot.com/p/football-raffle-2013.html" target="_blank">here</a> to enter to win. Tickets are $10 each and when you buy 10 tickets, you get 3 FREE. Winners will be announced on December 15th. Spread the word to all the football lovers you know!</div>
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