Hello to Our Wonderful Haiti Supporters!
Grant and I wanted to share with you the amazing updates happening between our partners in the U.S. (The Crossing Church) and our partners in Haiti. Read below, subscribe to our RSS feed, comment, and forward it to a friend if you find it interesting!
This is just an example of the power of partnering. More to come!
Kenny,
It’s called ‘Imagine School South Lake’. They have a character development program at the school and want the kids to grow ‘world eyes’. Sherry chairs the team and so she presented a Cornerstone School partnership as an option. They loved it!I presented the partnership possibility at a staff meeting and invited any interested teachers to participate. So far 17 classes have signed on! They’re doing a variety of things: most have a ‘Coins for Cornerstone’ jar in the classroom; kids are bringing quarters, nickels, dimes to fill them. One class brought in $24 the first day
Other classes are collecting picture books, gathering school supplies, writing letters.
Two weeks ago I came to school and introduced Haiti to 12 classes in four different 30-minute assemblies; 60 kids per period, for a total of almost 250 kids! I told them most Haitian kids eat pretty much only rice and beans and challenged them to help purchase food. One kid went home and persuaded his family to eat only rice and beans for one meal a week, taking the money they would have spent and giving it to Cornerstone instead! He makes them sit on the floor with the lights off, since they don’t have electricity in Chauffard
One of the teachers, Peggy Wamback, will be coming with us in December.
I don’t know where this will lead, but I love it
Let me know what else I can tell you!
Thanks!
Kendal
If you would like to learn more about partnering for Transforming Travel or to help with the cause in Haiti, please let us know!
Passionately,
The CPI Guys!
Kenny and Grant
