Waiting for Mondays
By Trip Manager Stephanie Mutert
One of the things I love seeing at the villages during the school day are the younger kids who have so much excitement to be in school. They wait through the entire weekend for school […]
By Trip Manager Stephanie Mutert
One of the things I love seeing at the villages during the school day are the younger kids who have so much excitement to be in school. They wait through the entire weekend for school […]
By Trip Manager Stephanie Mutert
I met this young fellow in March of 2014 on my very first weekend after moving to Haiti. It was one of those unexplainable, supernatural connections in the first moments of stepping off of the […]
By Trip Manager Stephanie Mutert
There are lots of ideas about what to do with the time once you are hanging out with the kids in the pastor’s care at the villages. Soccer is always popular and jump ropes will […]
It’s always a privilege to share with you what we see God doing around the world through this ministry each quarter. We invite you to take a look at January’s 10 Minutes with GO Project below. Our hope is video […]
Last January, CONANI, the Dominican Republic’s Child Welfare division, brought 8 boys in one day to Casa Amor, our orphan care partner in the DR. Today, they are scheduled to bring 4 more – again, all boys, which will […]
Below is a collection of photos and stories from a recent vision trip. Their leader explained, “The fact is, we need to talk about the experience to help us understand the culture shock between the life we live and […]
Storytelling is a masterful gift. I recently met a trip goer with an incredible talent to tell stories. She shared her talent with the kids at Marmalade one afternoon while telling the story of Joseph and his coat of […]
Friendship is a blessing in so many ways, and when friends come to visit and be present in the places that I get to hang out at with the kids in the Pastors’ care I get giddy.
One of my […]
by Jim Subers – Shelterwood CEO/Trip Leader
Today, we were reminded of the dramatic contradiction that is Haiti. We come to Haiti, in part because we encounter Jesus here in ways we seldom do back home.
On the way to church, […]
What is the fate of a poor, HIV-positive, orphaned child living in AIDS-ravaged, rural Africa? Unfortunately, for many this is not a hypothetical. Their lives here end all too soon, but that is not “Dani’s” story.
Dani does fit the […]