Wanted: Riceville People Who Will Partner

     WANTED:  RICEVILLE PEOPLE WHO WILL PARTNER

In January 2013, God began a good work in and through the Riceville Haiti Mission Team.  People such as Darwin and Leola Kock, Paul and Janet Pickar, Roger and Deb Schroeder met and lived with six Haitian young men who were being trained in Christian Community Development by Jean Thomas in Fond-des-Blancs, Haiti.   They all lived in the same guest house for the week.  By the time the week was over, a deep and lasting bonding had taken place.  Paul and Janet bonded with Joab; Darwin and Leola with Sheslair.

From friends to partners and now family, as Janet likes to say.  Thanks to the internet and cell phones, they stay in close contact.  Every year some of the Riceville Haiti team returns to Haiti.  I predict the partnering will continue for the rest of their lives.

We need more Riceville Haiti partners---persons who will assist Darwin and Leola, Paul and Janet double their effectiveness.  A friend of ours ate dinner with both couples and heard their first-hand moving Haiti story.  Soon she sent a $10,000 check to HCDF.  Rumor has it that since hurricane Matthew another $10,000 will soon be on its way.  She will never make the trip to Haiti, but she is a genuine partner.

Why don't you invite either the Pickars or Kocks over to dinner and hear their Haitian story firsthand. You could become a praying partner, a giving partner, a working partner for the next 10 years.

For more inside information, go to the Riceville library and check out the book, At Home with the Poor, the story of Christian Community Development in rural Haiti.  Using the cooperative model with the local people doing the work, HCDF has provided a plentiful supply of clean water, planted millions of trees, started a pig nursery to replenish a diseased pig population, created a school that educates 1500 students, etc.

Much progress has been made, but Jean Thomas writes:

"The poorest of the poor---those with no land, no livestock, no jobs, and almost no hope of acquiring these things---are still very numerous."

These Haitian poor need YOU as their partner; working with Kocks and Pickars, you can give the oppressed poor of Haiti help and hope.