Tractor ride fundraiser UPDATE

grandpa Love · Mar 27, 2019

Some of you may recall we hosted a tractor ride last fall to help raise money for a mission trip to Haiti. 14 of our friends including 8 youth left Saturday morning. They will be there for a week helping to install a solar system on a church and school in a poor neighborhood. They appear to be working hard but enjoining the trip. I'm sure the youth will come home with a new perspective on what poor is! Thank y'all for your input on our ride last fall. It was a great experience.

grandpa Love · Mar 27, 2019

Couple pictures. Off Facebook

Dsmythe · Mar 27, 2019

Grandpa Love;
Thank you for sharing the pictures. It does us all good to see how blessed we are and to see the responsibility we have to share with others in need. It is good to see young folks going to help someone else. It shows that there are some great leaders being developed by programs like this. I pray that God blesses you for the part that you and Ms GPL did to make this happen. Dsmythe

rrlund · Mar 27, 2019

Glad to see them doing something helpful. I don't want to be a wet blanket,but I just hope the kids don't see things they shouldn't be seeing is all.

The church that my daughter and son in law attended sent my grand daughters to help in an inner city mission when they were about ten and twelve years old. None of us were impressed with the open drug use and things of a carnal nature that they were exposed to. In fact,they changed churches after that little adventure.

pcsaw · Mar 27, 2019

That sure won?t hit the news that will be an experience they will remember for years

Mike M · Mar 27, 2019

With all the bad stuff going on in the world these days I sure would not be going to other countries. Americans are being targeted for kidnapping for ransoms. I hope they will be safe !

Steve@Advance · Mar 27, 2019

Our church has helped financially with an orphanage/school in Haiti, might be the same one.

I can't recall the name, would know it if I heard it.

The pastor there has shared some stories, pictures of what they do there.

He said the kids live up in the mountains, have to walk down to the school every day. School only goes September to June, sad thing, because the only decent meals they get is at school.

He said if you had a working flashlight, you were the hero of the day!

Extreme poverty, that's why they live in the mountains, they don't own anything, just set up a shack in the jungle where no one cares, hope the hurricanes don't blow it away.

He says the villagers are safe. They are grateful for the help, don't want to cause any problems.

But be on guard in town, high crime, drugs, robberies, especially tourists and foreigners, those caught unaware.

john in la · Mar 27, 2019

The company I work for went to Puerto Rico after the hurricane to work with fema. The first thing you notice is the difference between the tourist trap coast and the very poor interior.

We did a lot of work at a orphanage in the off times like building playground equipment and putting bicycles together the company had bought.

Your people that went to Haiti will remember this trip their entire life.

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