Orphan Table Follow up- Now What?

Orphan Table was great! We had a decent turn out of people, everyone seemed to enjoy the orphan food, and our guest speaker, Colleen Monfils, from Three Angels Board of Directors was amazing! She showed a video, answered questions, talked about the Three Angels ministry, and ways to get involved. Other people involved with Church of the Savior's Orphan Care Ministry sold some Jewelry and Decorations that helps the women of Haiti prevent their children from becoming orphans and supports the programs in Haiti.

So Orphan Sunday is over, you are asking yourself , now what? Or you missed our presentation and luncheon and want to know how to get involved. Here are some follow up options:

Sponsor: We are trying to raise 10 sponsors per orphan in the Angel House orphanage to cover the costs of care in the orphanage. Child support will likely last 1-2 years until children are adopted in the USA/Canada. Cost is $49/month It can be in one donation, monthly, paid individually, or get a group together to sponsor a child! Go to www.threeangelshaiti.org to sign up!

Donate: We are raising money for various work projects and needs around the orphanage like playground, porch repairs, etc. You can write a check to Church of the Saviour and indicate Three Angels or "Open Hearts Open Homes" on memo line and we will make sure the money gets to the orphanage! You can donate on Three Angels website as well, see above!

Help: Get involved with our planning and work with orphan care by attending our monthly meetings! Usually we meet the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 7pm in the gatehouse building on campus.

Raise Awareness: Share this blog with your friends! Just click on sign up for emails on the Right side of the screen and you will be emailed our updates. We try to update this blog monthly with any new information. Also LIKE the Three Angels page on Facebook to see updates of adopted children going home, new orphans joining the orphanage, and other cute pictures of the children! https://www.facebook.com/ThreeAngelsHaiti

Sell: Throw a Bijou Jewelry party and sell the Haitian jewelry and raise money for the orphan prevention program in Haiti! Look for more details on that at the Three Angels website

Go!: Come with us to Haiti in January 16-22, 2015 and help us with some projects their as well as get to meet the orphans and learn more about helping! We are also planning a Parent/Teen trip for the end of June/beginning of July 2015.

Thank you!

ORPHAN SUNDAY- NOVEMBER 2, 2014 ~ 12:30 PM

Come to our ORPHAN TABLE Luncheon after Church at Church of the Saviour around 12:30 PM! A speaker from Three Angels in Haiti is going to come talk to us about how we can help orphans! Enjoy some food that orphans typically eat in orphanages around the world and learn more about the extraordinary opportunities we have to partner with the Angel House orphanage in Haiti.

We will also have more BIJOU jewelry for sale!

Thank you!

Comerson, the Mayor of Angel House, goes home to mom and dad!

Another Three Angels kiddo goes home to new adoptive parents! Read the story here!
Three Angels Facebook Story of Comerson

Two more Haiti orphans go home to their adoptive parents!

Exciting news- two of the little orphans we met in January (Yrvens and Lovely) are going home this week to their US home with their adoptive parents! See pictures at their Facebook page linked below!
Three Angels

Yard sale follow up

The Yard Sale last Saturday was a huge success! We raised approx $2,000 for the orphans in Haiti! Thanks to everyone who volunteered, helped, sold, bought, etc!!

COS Community Yard Sale!!

Check out this website to register to sell at the yard sale:  https://cosnet.org/care
Please pass along this information to everyone you know who might be interested!! 
Thanks! 

YARD SALE

Benefits Angel House Orphanage, Haiti

Community Yard Sale

To benefit Angel House Orphanage, Haiti, on

September 20th, from 8 AM -1 PM in Bldg. F-100 (gym) at

Church of the Saviour,

651 North Wayne Avenue, Wayne, PA 19087

Can I sell?

If you would like to sell items, please register to rent a table for $25 by September

13th: https://cosnet.org /care or email Bea Gallagher at  bcg_ecc@yahoo.com  .

Can I donate?

We are taking donations of Christmas décor, costume jewelry, books, pots, pans and glassware.

Can I advertise?

If you would like to advertise your business at this event for a fee, please contact

Bea at   bcg_ecc@yahoo.com  or call her at 484.459.2452.

We need volunteers! Call or email Bea.

September  20th

8 a.m.—1 p.m.

"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after

orphans and widows in their distress ...."  James 1:27

Please visit the Angel House table to learn more about the orphans and Angel House. Feel free to donate a portion of your proceeds to this cause.

ThreeAngelsHaiti.org

Thank you for all of your support!

Upcoming Community Yard Sale at COS!

The Care Ministry presents Community Yard Sale to benefit Angel House orphanage in Haiti on September 20^th, 2014 from 8 AM -1PM in the Gym at Church of the Saviour, Wayne PA.

If you want to sell your stuff, register to rent a table for $25, by September 13^th, 2014 to Bea Gallagher or via COS website. 

If you would like to advertise your business at this event for a fee, please contact Bea Gallagher  bcg_ecc@yahoo.com. 

Please come and support the Haiti orphans! Either sell your things at a yard sale and consider donating some of your profits to Angel House, or come buy other people's previously owned items at our yard sale! If you would like to sell crafts, jewelry, or other items, that is fine! If you would like to hang a sign or give out coupons/etc to advertiser your business we will charge a fee for our fundraiser and you might get some new customers! 

We also need volunteers to help man some tables so if you can help with that please let us know! Again contact Bea at the above email address. 

Thanks in advance, on behalf of the Three Angels Orphanage! 

(We need to raise about $8000 plus child sponsorships and anything we can raise to contribute to that goal would be amazing!)

July Update: Praise, and Upcoming Events!

Hello Open Hearts Open Homes fans! 

Welcome to the July update on our Orphan Care committee. 

• PRAISE- we found an anonymous donor who gave the money needed for the largest, and most needed expense for the Solar Panels for the ThreeAngels orphanage in Haiti!! We are thrilled that God provided so quickly! 

• Now we are going to put together a team to go back to Haiti this Fall. Please let us know if you are are considering joining us for this trip (ohoh@cosnet.org). 

• We are planning to do a large fundraiser in September to raise money for Three Angels. We are thinking about a huge garage/thrift/craft sale at church with multiple families and vendors. More details to come! 

• It's almost back to school time! We will be collecting Backpacks and School Supplies for Foster Care school children very soon. Look for more details on that soon (via church bulletin most likely). 

• SAVE the DATE for November 2nd- Orphan Sunday. We will again host this national event at our church and have a luncheon after church to learn more about orphans and how we can help them. Stay tuned for more details to come! 

• Also if you have any interest in helping us with our Orphan Care ministry, fundraising, praying for adoptive families, and other ventures, please attend our monthly meetings- the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 7pm in the Care Ministry house building on the COS campus (The building right on Wayne Ave, as you enter the campus on your Right).

•  If you'd like to hear about updates on Three Angels, and the twins who recently were adopted from there- please check out the Three Angels Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ThreeAngelsHaiti and the website http://threeangelshaiti.org/double-knotted/ (story of the  Knotts twins' Adoption). 

Thank you for subscribing to our blog,

Patience

OHOH blog moderator

Needs for Three Angels Orphanage

We need you!! Yes you!! 

To help us raise money to supply the Three angels orphanage in Haiti with some desperately needed project supplies!

Here are the current needs:

Angel House Project Cost

                        1. Planting grass.  ($300)

                        2. Enclose outdoor 2nd story porch area to enable child use and eliminate fall danger  ($1300).

                        3. Minor repairs to steps, cistern cracks leaking through walls, etc amounting to under  ($1000). 

                        4. Backup power generator.  ($5500)

                        5. Solar Power System   ($8,500) ** biggest need currently

We are asking you to involve your ministry group, committee, Sunday school class, Bible study, whatever resources you have, and hold fundraisers to raise the money, ask people to donate, and consider volunteering to be on the team that will go down to finish these projects (estimated date is TBD in September/October 2014). We are hoping to have most of the funds raised by the end of June 2014 so then we can start putting a team together. The most desperate need is the solar panels, which will save the orphanage thousands of dollars, but is also the largest one time amount needed. 

We will come speak to your group about the needs and support you as needed with throwing a fundraiser, so please contact us soon! ohoh@cosnet.org

Remember to please subscribe to this blog to be kept up to date with what is going on with our ministry and this exciting opportunity to be able to be a blessing to the orphan children in Haiti! 

Thank you!

OHOH at COSMOS- [updated info from TBD note on previous blog post]

Please come to our COSMOS U class March 30th at 11 AM in Room A 109/111 (that's the room in the main building down the hall from the bathrooms near the nursery). We are talking about "Orphans in the City of Port au Prince, Haiti". There will be pictures of our trip. Should be an awesome time. Please attend!!
Thanks,
Patience

Exciting Upcoming Announcements

Hello Friends! We are so glad you are interested in Open Hearts Open Homes at Church of the Saviour.
Please Subscribe to this blog for monthly updates on what we're doing and how to be involved! Just type your email address in the place on the Right side of the page and you should receive emails whenever this blog is updated!

Here's what's coming up soon!
1. Open Hearts Open Homes will be hosting a COSMOS U class on March 30th on the topic of "Orphans in the city of Port-a-Prince, Haiti" We will share about our missions trip! Room and time (either 9:30 or 11AM) is still TBD. [Also look for our Lobby Table in Building A, and we will be selling Haiti Jewelry during COSMOS as well!!]

2. Three Angels is the orphanage we visited in Haiti in January. Open Hearts Open Homes planted their "stake" in the ground and agreed to partner with them to provide support, missions teams, sponsors, etc. Please check out their website:http://threeangelshaiti.org/ 
and Facebook page!  https://www.facebook.com/ThreeAngelsHaiti

3. We plan to return to Three Angels orphanage in May or June this year- we need volunteers to join us! Please consider coming on a short term work project trip at Angel House! We also need to raise money for this trip as well, so if you can't attend, consider donating to support those who are going. [Please note this is a Work trip, there will be limited interaction with the children]

4. We would really like to develop a Fundraising committee within Open Hearts Open Homes to help raise money for various things. If you have skills in this department or are interested (we have some ideas, but we need someone who can organize them!) please contact us!!

5. We also need more people to help with our Open Hearts Open Homes ministry Team- especially to help with communication and to assist with other ventures (like helping out with COSMOS for example)

6. Prayer- we need people to pray for our group, pray for fundraising, pray for Three Angels partnership, COSMOS, etc. Lynette, our prayer captain will be sending prayer updates for the ministry soon and will be posted on here for everyone. [If you need personal prayer please contact Lynette- that information will not be posted on the blog]

Everyone keeps asking so yes we got the missing bags!!

Sorry I forgot to post about this earlier! We did get the two missing boxes  two days later  !

Vision trip successful!

From Elaine, one of our leaders from Open Hearts Open Homes. This is her recap of the trip and our plan:

We had a trip where God was obviously present.  We enjoyed Three Angels and the people that make up 3 Angels immensely!  It is truly God's work in Haiti.  I am thrilled that we will be partnering with them.  I believe that all the team benefited from seeing the work there as Eric (the director) said that all their efforts are really orphan care - farming for food to feed the orphans, making jewelry to prevent orphans, educating children to break the cycle of poverty and give them Jesus which may prevent someone from giving up their child to adoption later, supporting families so that they can raise their kids. 

Home !

We are home!! 

No problems coming back except for team leader had his pliers seized and this blogger got a little sick. 

Except for freezing temps we are glad to be back. 

He's got the whole world in his hands....

The P theme of the trip

We noticed a theme of 'p' words this trip.

Day 1: planes and problems

Day 2: painting

Day 3: planting

Day 4: passing ( passing out food, passing the towns in the car) and praying 

Day 5: playing and peace (relaxing )

Day 6: preparing (for home ) and planes

And of course Patience!! I see my name around Haiti! 

- from patience , team photographer / blogger/ communications 

Day5: playing with kids

Today we finally got to play with the kids in the orphanage!! (To not upset the matched adoptive parents I can't post any pics of kids online especially Facebook. If you want to see some pics I can email to you, let me know)

We spent alot of time relaxing today. We also helped put some food away for the school lunch program. We finished painting the roof. And we made a video (raw footage) of a tour of the three angels compound. I even learned a little creole from a haitian man who teaches English to high school students and tutors our house manager in creole. We learned that orphanage = orfalina. And orphan = orfen but you don't pronounce the n. So orfe. 

We finished buying jewelry. Here is one team member modeling  bijou jewelry :)

This is the three angels intern we worked with.

We set up the tents and tunnels for the kids and tried to get them to go inside. They were soon shy!! Probably confused since we don't speak creole and a little scared since we're all white foreigners ! We had fun tho! I was happy to get a little smile from one little girl who was expressionless and seemed nonresponsive but may have just been super shy. 

We also taught the babies bowling ! ( the kids are about 1 year old to 2 1/2 years old). I don't know if they got it or not! 

We had a lot of fun! 

Now we have to pack up , debrief, and get ready for freezing weather tomorrow when we get home!

Link to video of pismo the goat !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uenwq2HvrI&feature=em-upload_owner#action=share

Richard C. Mears, III M.O.L. – Director - Haiti

(P) US: 215-253-8890

(P) Haiti: 011-509-3150-8700

www.afhaiti.info

www.ambassadorsfootball.org

Day 4 Travel and visiting

Today we went to Archaie - the area where one team member has been involved and where our church raised money to build their school . 

 

We met the pastor and toured the half built church and the Christian school. 

 

The children swarmed around us asking us to take their picture ! It was a mob scene ! 

 

One little girl named Juliette kept following us around shyly smiling at us and grabbing our arms. 

 

We had snack and lunch with the pastor across the street at his house. we also met with Alix the Three Angels school director, the Archaie school director, the school church committee and pastor, and discussed ways to improve their school. Since the Three Angels school is so successful, the director, Alix, will help Wilson the director at Archaie work on improving their school. 

 

We saw the shore which is lined with debris and pigs and very skinny sheep/ goats? 

 

We had a very long drive back due to traffic and then went to  Child Hope, which is an agency that has a orphanage, school, feeding program for poor neighboring kids, and a transition program that teaches job and life skills to teenagers like making jewelry, printing t shirts, weaving, sewing, pottery, etc.

 

We got to help feed the kids in the feeding program. 

 

One little girl was extremely malnourished and was hand fed a bowl and rice mixture. I saw her eat another plateful and was glad for that. 

 

The little girl and her brother walked some of the way with us outside as we made our way over to the Apparent Project which helps people make crafts jewelry etc and sell them to Americans and here too! 

 

They had an amazing store and we wished we brought some money! 

We had a very bumpy eventful ride home having to keep turning around and finding another street due to road construction and traffic ! It's crazy scary driving here!

 

We finally made it home to the guesthouse and had dinner and got to relax - we had breadfruit sausage and cornbread

 

 

Below is a picture of a book I bought about an orphan's experience in Haiti. I can't wait to share it with some of you when I get home ! 

 

Day 3 Planting Trees

Today we planted trees!

Well first we viewed the school here to watch their morning ceremonies . They sang in creole and English  , recited psalm 23 in creole and raised the Haitian flag. 

I took some videos but I don't think I can upload to this blog. 

Then we went to the three angels nursery  where they are growing many fruit trees and vegetables and plan to sell them to make money for the orphanage and other programs plus sell the fruits here in Haiti since they would be the only people with these fruits. 

Here are pictures of some of the plants . I can't remember which is which an I'm only going to upload a few. 

This is Eric the director of three angels explaining the process of the nursery . He used to run a successful nursery in California . These are dragon fruit plants

This is our team leader with breadfruit plants. Breadfruit is an amazing (non native) fruit that tastes like potato and can be made into flour and other things. 

We got to try fresh fig!

This is merenga - we ate this and it tastes like salad greens

Bananas 

Papaya

This carrot isn't ready to be harvested yet!

These are the merenga seeds we planted!

We packed the seeds in little pots and bags with dirt

We filled about 14 trays and planted about 700 trees!!

Also we met one team members friend Richard who works for ambassadors football Haiti which teaches Haitian kids how to play soccer and raise goats. They showed us a video of the program and are trying to get people to 'give a kid a kid'! Check out their website www.afhaiti. Info - I think the video about pismo the surfing goat is on there !

We also had a chocolate treat for dessert !!