Evergreen Association Mission Trip to Haiti April
20-29, 2012
We are going to Haiti on April 20-29th
2012, to be part of American Baptist Mission work at
Cap Haitien, Haiti! Two groups are actually planning to
go -- one departing from Seattle, and the other
departing from San Francisco. estimates are that we may
have upwards to 30 people from the region going down to
help Nzunga Mabudiga and his wife Kihomi minister to
the poorest country in our hemisphere.
Kihomi and Nzunga serve as a vital link between
International Ministries and the Haitian Baptist
Convention. Nzunga teaches theology at the Christian
University of Northern Haiti, trains assistant
professors in teaching and writing books, administers a
scholarship program, and visits and preaches in
churches. He also administers the "Kids for Kids" goat
project that provides needed school and personal
supplies for children and university students.
Kihomi works with families in the areas of counseling,
family planning, and women's health issues. She also
coordinates and advises the women's association of the
Haitian Baptist Convention, representing women of all
the Baptist denominations of Haiti at international
conferences.
We have a need for participants with a large variety of
helping skills (1 Corinthians 12:4-26 describes this
well!). If we are able to enlist enough people with
construction skills, we will be working on a new school
for the mission. If not, we will still be needing to do
various kinds of repair work for them. With the cholera
outbreak after the earthquake, as well as with the
needs of the eye clinic in Cap Haitien, we can
certainly use people with medical or nurses training.
We are hoping to bring some new computers down to the
mission and people with skills at using and/or teaching
computer use would certainly be of help. But also,
there is a lot of work, especially for women, just
being part of the ministry of encouragement that Kihomi
does with the women of Haiti. Nzunga wrote in response
to one of our questions, "You will have opportunity to
connect with women's work. Kihomi will take you places
you don't want to go!" Talk about a challenge!
"We always appreciate the visits...Once you are in
our place, we don't feel lonely and left alone on the
island of Haiti." -Nzunga Mabudiga
Money raised by any of our Regional churches will be
used to offset these expenses:
- Travel cost of participants:
Participants will of course contribute to their own
travel, but sharing in the cost of travel will be our
way of partnering with them.
- Cost of laptop computers for the
mission: We are hoping to buy a number of
these to take and leave at the mission, so they can
use them at their schools and with their medical
work.
- Materials for construction and
repair: These will be purchased in Haiti for
work at the mission.