Haiti Mission Trip Parent Info Night

      We are excited to announce that Saturday, November 21st through Saturday November 28th of 2015 we will be traveling to Haiti on a mission trip. We will be going through an organization that’s already planted in Haiti to make sure we have direction, our time is fully utilized, and our group stays safe. The total price of the trip will be determined once we reserve our airfare in January but should be between $1600 and $2000.

      We will have three main projects for the seven days that we’re serving. The organization that we’re working with, Restore Haiti, is a child-sponsorship program so some of our time will be spent serving and visiting with sponsored children. Haiti is also recovering from the massive earthquake that hit in 2010, so one of the projects we will be helping with is building houses. This will be a very different process than what we’re used to in the United States as we will not have a local Home Depot to run to, we will making our resources from the earth. The third thing we will be doing in Haiti is a project of our choosing. This can be putting on an event, performing at their church service, doing a distribution of some kind, our options are open to what gifts and talents we have in our team.

       When planning this trip, we were very selective in which organization we chose to go through because while we want our group to get a sense for life in a third-world country, our top priority is safety. Restore Haiti has been in Jacmel running weekly missionary teams since 2005 and has multiple precautions in place to make sure we stay healthy and safe the entire time. We will discuss these safety precautions more in depth at our parent informational night.

       Our Parent Information Night will be on Monday, November 17th at 6:00pm at RiverView Community Church (6325 Old Pacific Hwy S Kalama). Any teenager that will be in High School in the 2015-2016 school year is welcome to come with their parent or legal guardian. This meeting will provide your family all the details you need about this trip. You will then have through the holidays to decide if this is something you are interested in being a part of and we will begin forming our team in January. We will discuss fundraising in more detail at the meeting as well, so please don’t let the initial shock of a possible $2,000 keep you from coming to hear more! 

       We’re looking forward to everything the Lord has prepared in advance for us to do in these following months and hope you will join us in a couple weeks to hear even more about this trip. I've attached multiple links below if you're interested in looking up more about the organization.
  
Restore Haiti Website       Restore Haiti Facebook Page      Restore Haiti Mission Reviews