Here’s some info about the ministry Aaron Mondok and Dave Bird are serving with.

The Haiti Initiative

Here’s a very thorough update from my son Aaron. He is serving with the Calvary Chapel Haiti Initiative.

I will give you an overview of the first few weeks here so far. The first week was a bit rough, but quite an adventure. Between balancing the team’s schedule, making contacts with local pastors and organizations, and figuring out all the “how-tos” of the house, it was not easy to establish myself here, but I loved every minute of it.

The Second week was a bit easier, Dave’s arrival here was a breath of fresh air. With Dave here the workload was cut in half, giving me more time to focus on the ministry aspect of all Calvary Chapel is doing here. I was able to put a better schedule in place and make more connections with pastors on a personal level.

The Third week was the best. Dave and I were able to connect more with Cody and Maria. Cody and Maria have been a huge blessing in connecting us with ministry opportunities. The third team had huge servant hearts. It was cool to see how God gave each team only the amount of work they could handle. For this team, God gave them a lot, and they did all of it with a smile on their faces. We were also blessed with two new translators: Delpha and Nerlande. They are my two new best friends. Spending time with them has helped my Creole significantly. Nerlande says that she will not talk to me unless I speak to her in Creole. Delpha has been my key guy in helping translate for VBS. Nerlande has been awesome in helping us get food in the market and helping the women from the team communicate with the women and girls we meet at VBS and Work locations.

After team three, I have been able to put a weekly schedule together, of course everything is subject to change, but I have a schedule in place with pastors at VBS locations and with the orphanage visits. Things have really come together upon the arrival of team four. The VBS program is coming together nicely. I am thinking about calling it “Children’s Program” rather than “Vacation Bible School” because the Haitians refer to it as “Children’s Program”. Also, I got the opportunity to preach at Pastor Ginais’ Church this week. Pastor Ginais is a pastor I meet in the community where the first team built the house. Him and I have become good friends. We also do a Children’s Program in that community once a week now.

This up coming week I am planning on putting together a puppet routine in Creole, also building a puppet stage. Pastor Joseph asked if we could teach English to the children at his school during Children’s Program, so I am planning to also put together a powerpoint show with shapes, colors, animals, and other simple things to learn in English.

This trip has been an awesome experience so far, and I am honored to be apart of what God is already doing in Jacmel. It has been an Adventure.

Aaron’s missionary page

I just received this email from Aaron. He arrived in Haiti yesterday with his team from Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale.

It's only been two days, but it feels like it's been much longer. As team leader I've been able to connect with a couple Haitian
pastors. They find work project for the team.

Yesterday we began to dig up the ground where a house once stood, and
today part of my team began to build a new foundation for a new
house in its place. It’s cool to be working alongside the Haitian
people to rebuild their community.

Today the other half of my team, including myself, lead a VBS at a
local school. We talked about heaven and how one day God's children
will wear crowns and will reign with Christ. Then we made each child a
balloon hat to remind them of their future with Christ.

Later on today we visited an orphanage. I think I will be spending
alot of time there. There I met a little boy. He looked like he was
about two or three years old. He has a mental disability and sits in a
crib and sucks his fingers all day. His hand is raw from how much he
sucks on it. He looks like he weighs about twenty pounds. The sad
thing I learned later about him is that he isn't only two or three years old, but nine. It would blow your mind if you saw his picture, but due to our limited Internet, uploading a photo could knock out our connection for 24 hrs.

Aaron's Missionary Page

One of my responsibilities at Shepherd’s Staff Mission Facilitators is maintaining the website. Today I added a new missionary to the site that I love very much: my son. This Sunday I take Aaron to the airport. He’s being sent out by Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale to serve as a ministry leader in Jacmel, Haiti. He’ll be the point person for Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale's projects in the country.

Here’s a report from CCFL’s Pastor Chet Lowe. This will give you an idea of the kind of things Aaron will be involved with:

----FROM CHET - START--------------------------

We have been on the ground for one week. Since that time, our team has:

1. Built four homes from the ground up

2. Conducted week long vacation bible schools at two locations

3. Worked in a clinic for severely injured children (malnourishment and untreated injuries)

4. Planned flights for next week into inaccessible areas to conduct feasibility assessments  for future projects

5. Became the administrators at a clinic seeing 500-700 patients daily.

6. Organized and restocked medical supplies for a large warehouse serving as clearinghouse for incoming medical supplies

7. Renovated a birthing clinic

8. New construction on a security wall in the mountains for a local school

9. Developed the site plan for our acquired property including staking out all potential temporary structure sites

10. Met with officials from UN (united nations) and NGO's (non-governmental organizations)on the ground to coordinate our efforts

11. Developed a child welfare plan of action with local Christian orphanages

12. Met with leading pastors in area to coordinate Christian effort

13. Moved and restocked the medical depot of relief supplies for all medical NGO's on the ground in Jacmel

14. Asked for approval to conduct chaplain service for Canadian Army members in Jacmel

15. Secured housing for incoming teams- built bunk beds, established internet in house, etc

16. Planning meetings with Samaritan's Purse representatives next week to deepen partnerships

17. Planning meetings with Churches Helping Churches representative to deepen our partnership with James MacDonald's church.

Need lots of prayer! He is glorious!

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