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July 2012
Planting People
July 2012
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6-19-12 Partnered with Devine Faith Ministries. They have committed to build a clinic, drill a water well and build the school some tables and benches. 7-10-12 Started our womens bible study. Over 20 women are coming each Tuesday morning. Bible.
A Year in Haiti
There is a Haitian proverb that says If your planting for a year you plant grains. If youre planting for a decade, you plant trees. If you are planting for a generation, you plant people. A few years ago planting people was one of the furthest things on my mind. Its funny how God works. I thought my family would soon have a second income and start thinking about building a new home, but He had other plans. We were called to Haiti a full year before we arrived. God opened the doors that needed to be opened that would allow us to move to Haiti and He also starting closing doors that needed to be closed. We sold most of everything we had to fund the non-profit startup. We have a 10x10 storage building with a few items in it and kept our vehicle because it would be more costly to rent a vehicle when
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we returned to the states to visit and fundraise. We arrived on the 4th of July 2011 with the help from some great friends and our church Owasso First Assembly. The love and giving we experienced while preparing to minister in Haiti was wonderful. People ask me all the time whats it like in Haiti? I use to respond with one word, challenging, but I think the better words to use are Life Changing. We came to teach the people of Haiti and have learned as much from them as we have given out. The people of Galgal call us family. Its heart wrenching to see all the needs here and not be able to do much about them. We see people that go without food and water for days. Children with bloated stomachs and red hair from malnutrition. Its our belief that more then half of our students get their only meal each weekday from the school. We have at least another 100 children that are not attending school in our area that need our help. In the past 12 months we were able to give out over 30,000 meals. We also feed one family of 10 for over 8 months. We built a school, taught 90 kids, started a soccer team, gave away over 500 articles of
and the Owasso athletic dept. generously donated home and away jerseys to our new boys soccer team. The boys were so excited and wanted to
thank you for thinking of them.
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The King will reply, Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me. Matthew 25:40
The top boy and girl from each class earned a new backpack! These, along with many award certificates were given out at our Awards Ceremony on June 29th. Many parents were there to pick up report cards that day, so there were quite a few very proud parents at the ceremony too. Many of the parents helped prepare the land, built the school and made sure the teachers were stocked up with melon during watermelon season! Our school has already gotten a very good reputation in and around our area. Even the students from the other
schools have said that our 4th and 5th graders are beyond them academically. Im so proud of the students and our great and flexible teachers! The teachers had to be flexible to put up with an
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put up with an American director and her far out ideas and ways! I would like to tell you about a couple of exceptional students this last half year. They both have had stories featured on the Kings Cross facebook page. The first one is Dieumeline (Jamielyn) Cajuste. She got very sick over Christmas break and had to go to the hospital. She had to have a mass removed from her intestines and then she got tuberculosis! It was not looking good for her. She got down to under 60 pounds at 12 years old. Her family had to sacrifice a lot and she of course couldnt go to school for about 3 months. During her recovery time, she came to stay with us in our home for about a month to help her recover in a cleaner and healthier environment. We had more possibilities of getting her to a hospital if there was an emergency. She was finally well enough to go home and finish recovery. She soon returned to school and finished the year receiving the Most Improved Student award for her 3rd grade class! We are so very proud of her and her family too. She is a darling girl and was so very excited to go back to school to learn and be with her friends. Another student I would like to highlight is little Mickenlove. This little guy was enrolled in January. We met him at a mobile clinic done at the Kings Cross Mission. Dr. Carter took quite a long time examining him and diagnosed He was 5 years old and had stopped walking and talking when he was 4. This little guy had been severely malnourished! Doc gave his mother a years supply of vitamins that we found out a month in a half later were all gone. We believe she allowed the other children in her family (8) to eat them like candy. So we prayed and sought God on what we could do for this precious baby with a beautiful smile. We decided to enroll him in our Kindergarten class and make sure he got cared for every day with love, food, and a daily vitamin. If you dont know, a special needs student in school is almost unheard of. In fact, special needs people are often disregarded and seen as a burden to the family and society. Many parents begin to feel regret and lose their love for their child. In Haiti 1 in 10 people are disabled and those with special needs are often treated appallingly. Discrimination against disabled children is common, many children with physical or mental disabilities are permanently left at home and denied the right to integrate into mainstream life. Due to a severe lack of education in the area of disability, many families simply dont know whats wrong with their child or how to care for them, sadly resulting in many being abandoned from an early age. We are doing what we can to prevent these kinds of things from happening through love and education. We are working with the family to help meet some of moms needs to care for Mickenlove properly and need a sponsor for this family to help with food, sanitary issues, and medical care. The students in our school have learned, by example, how to love this little guy and look out for him. He loves to go to school to see all his little friends and feel like he can be free to learn and smile a LOT! Please continue to pray for these precious children and we just want to praise the Lord for all He has done in their young lives so far and are believing that God is not finished blessing them! Kings Cross Schools is excited to tell you that we have plans for our school next year to have a special needs class being that we are finding more and more special needs children in the area that just need a chance to have a better and healthier life. We are blessed to have a special education teacher come in the month of August to help set up the classroom and train our teacher for this important and much needed job. We dont have the funds yet for all of this, but as in the past we move forward in faith believing for the Lord to provide what is needed to fulfill His will! We will keep you updated on this important project. Thank you again from the bottom of my heart for all you do for Kings Cross Ministries and our precious babies at Kings Cross School in Haiti.
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Kings Cross School The school at Kings Cross is the center of our ministry right now. It allows us to minister to each student and their families. We currently have 4 temporary classrooms that we will be using again for the 20122013 school year. We need to build at least 3 classrooms before October 1st so that each grade will have their own classroom. This will also allow us to increase the amount of children that attend our school from 90 to 210. We will also get to hire 3 additional teachers. Our estimated cost per classroom is $3840 or $15 per square ft. We will need to replace the 4 temporary classrooms after these 3 classrooms are built. We also need $500 to finish a bathroom. Kings Cross Orphanage The land has been cleared and were ready to build our first home and a bath house. We are estimating each home to cost $5000. Each home will house 8 children and a mommy. They will learn to function as a family working with a monthly budget, chores, bible studies Naming rights for each house is given to the person or group that donates the $5000 needed to build the house. Sustainable Gardening We are planting a test garden using American seeds by 7-15-12 to test what could be grown if watered daily. Most Haitians rely on rain only to water their plants. Once this test is complete we will start FAITH gardens near each
home. (Food Always in The Home) Livestock We just finished the first 3 rabbit cages we need to start breeding rabbits. Rabbits are
Goats will be an important part of our breeding operation and kids4kids program.
a great source of protein and has the potential to change the overall health of the community. We will also be raising goats, pigs, turkeys and chickens. We are
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Kings Cross Clinic Through a partnership with Divine Faith Ministries we will be building a small clinic for the Galgal area. We are in the design stage of this project and will have more details soon. Clean Water We would also like to build some staff housing at a cost of $5000 each. Cajuste Family Home The Cajuste family has 10 members in it. They live on our property in house that is falling apart. Kesnel, the father of the family, volunteers to work with me everyday. His wife volunteers to cook for the school each day. Eight of the children attend our school. We need to relocate them soon. A house will cost us about $4000. Pierre Family Home A family of 6 that lives about 100 yards away from us was living in what I would describe as an old Boy Scout pup tent made out of sticks, rice bags, and sheets. Two of the kids were and still are very malnourished. We can feed them for $50 a month. We are enrolling them into our school this year and we started and building them a simple home. We need $300 more to buy cement to finish the house. The community is
The Bio-Sand water filter forms that Robert Archuleta and Flameco built and donated will be used this year to produce water filters to clean drinking water.
Divine Faith has committed to drilling a water well on our property for the community. Housing
We would like to build a bunk house for groups that come to our property. This building would sleep groups up to 16 people and will cost $5000 to build.
Ministry
Bible studies, revivals, VBS, worship nights We will also be ministering to other missions & neighbors. Starting English classes and
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We need someone that would be willing to help answer questions about coming to Haiti on a mission trip and send out packets of information.
In Country Missionaries We would like to begin looking at bringing on another missionary or couple. The person or
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Interested in a free trip to Haiti? We are offering a limited amount of free HaitiHaiti?
trips to people willing to be group coordinators for Mission Trips in 2012. If youre willing to find a group of 9 or more to come serve the people of Haiti and partner with Kings Cross Ministries we would love to have you. Contact Ginger at ginger@kingscrossministries.com for an information packet.
PO Box 2370 Owasso, OK 75055 Phone: 918-960-9708 E-Mail: info@kingscrossministries.com Web: www.kingscrossministries.com