Heading to Haiti!

I will be leaving Thursday May 13th for a fact-finding trip to Port au Prince, Haiti, returning the following Monday.

Our Ontario churches of the United Brethren Church in Canada, along with our US counterparts have raised considerable funds for rebuilding in Haiti.

I will be joined by our Haiti Team Leader Joan Sider, Haiti Team member Jeff Gordon, United Brethren US Global Ministries Team Leader Jeff Bleijerveld and CH Global representative Ed Sider.

Some pictures:

Citie Soleil Church damaged:


Jeff Bleijerveld and our Haitian Leader Pastor Oliam Richard:












People gathered for a Sunday Service (our Delmas 33 church is not yet finished):

Back from Honduras

Laurel tells me that I may have left an impression that we stayed at the beautiful Pico Bonito lodge! We just had lunch there. We were staying at a much more modest hotel in downtown La Ceiba.

I haven't had much time to add stuff here, I've been focusing on the conference (see www.ubcentral.org ) and our work in Haiti (which will need to be drastically refocused).

Honduras

We attended the last day of the Honduras conference this afternoon after a late but very good meal of fish. They really put on a show, the Bethel Collegio Instituto (United Brethren highschool) had about half their marching band. They have a reputation throughout Honduras and Central America for being very good and they did not disappoint.

There was also a children's presentation with 1-2 children dressed in the traditional garb of each country represented at the UB General Conference. They also sang a verse of each national anthem. There were 2 cute young girls in jeans and cowboy boots for the US. Canada had a little Mountie and two First Nations!

I'll try to attach a few pictures tomorrow.

Greetings from Honduras!

I arrived yesterday in Honduras for our United Brethren world-wide conference (held every 4 years, this is the first time outside of USA). We arrived in San Pedro Sula and took a 3 hour bus ride to Le Ceiba on the coast.

We had a great breakfast at the Pico Bonito Lodge, in the protected eco area south of La Ceiba. many trails, animals, etc. Unfortunately, we've had continuous rain! There is flooding on some of the roads.

To check out the lodge: www,picobonito.conm