If you have ever built your own home, church, car, furniture, etc., you know that things rarely go as planned. Sometimes your money doesn't go as far as you budgeted, sometimes a certain material or commodity becomes scarce, sometimes you slip off the ladder and sprain your ankle. Well, our construction project to build a new church building for the Jacquet CRC has hit a few such bumps. We give thanks that for the most part, the bumps are fairly minor. First, in digging the foundation, the volunteer construction team found that the bedrock just under the surface was a lot harder than expected. Second, it seems like the entire project is just taking more time. Much time is going into the rebar preparation (the building is a reinforced poured-cement construction) because 3/4 in rebar is being used extensively for earthquake resistence (try bending a piece of 3/4 in steel rebar if you want to know why the construction is going slow). Thirdly, the church is struggling to raise enough money to pay the hired laborers and feed and house the volunteer laborers. This is because there is an ongoing food-crisis in Port-au-Prince (due to a draught followed by two hurricanes) and the fact that the Jacquet church is making payments on the land as well). Please join us in giving thanks for the progress already made in the project. Also, please pray that construction can resume after Christmas. Finally, funds are still needed to complete the construction of the building. Christian Reformed World Missions is working with SON-BEAM International and Trinity CRC of Goderich, ON, to fund the construction materials needed for the project. If you would like to donate to this project (we still need at least $10K of funding), please make your checks to "Christian Reformed World Missions" with the phrase "Haiti Church Constr 805803" in the check's memo line. Send the check to CRWM, 2850 Kalamazoo Ave. SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49560. Thanks.
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