Sponsoring a child at the Cap Haitien Children’s Home (CHCH)

1. Sponsoring a child at the Cap Haitien Children’s Home (CHCH) • Welcome in Jesus’ name! Thanks for viewing. • This slide show is intended to guide interested Christian men and women in how to become sponsors of some of God’s children in Haiti. • The CHCH an orphanage in Cap Haitien (Northern) Haiti. • It is under the spiritual oversight of the elders of the Southwest Church of Christ in Ada, OK. • Sponsors help with the “extra stuff,” but more importantly, they have the opportunity to come into God’s children’s lives. The blessings from that are indescribable. • Contact info is on the last page. Helpful Hint: Press F5 for a full screen slide show. Press Escape <Esc> to exit.

2. Sponsoring a child at the Cap Haitien Children’s Home (CHCH) Who sponsors a child at the CHCH? Lots of Christians do! We have brothers and sisters from California, Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kansas, Missouri, and lots of other states too. What does the sponsor money go for? Sponsor money is used to supplement the funds from the orphanage’s owning church, the Southwest Church of Christ in Ada, OK. Funds are used to buy clothes, shoes, books, and to do fun things with the children that we don’t always have money for. We use them for emergencies and also attempt to put a percentage away for when the child leaves the orphanage.

3. Sponsoring a child at the Cap Haitien Children’s Home (CHCH) • How much does it cost? It varies. We have some sponsors that contribute $10/month and others that contribute $30 a month and still others that contribute somewhere in between. The amount is really secondary and it’s your choice. Deductions are fully tax deductible. The church’s address is given at the end of this presentation. • What else is required? Nothing really, but we do strongly encourage communication between the sponsor and the child. We believe it is important that the child sees the sponsor not as a Santa Claus, but as someone interested in their entire person, spiritual and physical.

4. Sponsoring a child at the Cap Haitien Children’s Home (CHCH) • Do sponsors ever visit their children or do extra things for them? Some do and some don’t. We do encourage sponsors to write and visit their children when possible. It really helps foster a bond that we hope will last a lifetime. Some sponsors also send birthday and Christmas cards and gifts, but again, we don’t want to turn this into a Santa Claus program. The children need to value their sponsor as a person.

5. Sponsoring a child at the Cap Haitien Children’s Home (CHCH) • How do I choose a child? Just go through the next several pages on this slide show and pick one or two you might be interested in. Because the eligible children change frequently, you will need to email (all contact info is on the last page of this slide show) and make sure no one else has already sponsored the child you picked. If that happens, don’t be disappointed. We can always find more!

6. Sponsoring a child at the Cap Haitien Children’s Home (CHCH) • The first group of slides are all children who live at the orphanage. All of their basic needs: food, shelter, medical, school, books, and some clothes are met by the orphanage through the church in Ada. What you will be helping them with are the extras and some special things that the orphanage can’t supply right now. You will also be helping to build a little nest egg for them for when they leave.

7. Max Mason • Max is 12 years old and is in the 3rd grade. He has been with us since he was a baby. • He loves school, especially math. He also likes soccer. • He really is a happy kid and his smile lights up the room. It is so easy to make him smile!

8. Esaie Belford • Esaie (French for Isaiah) is almost 10 and in the 3rd grade. He likes school. His favorite subject is math. Many of the kids like math here. • Esaie has been with us for most of his life. He doesn’t know much about his biological family, just that we here at the orphanage are his family now. • He is a good kid. He can get into a little trouble now and then, but what boy doesn’t? He has a lot of fun.

9. Sam Francois • Sam is one of our newest arrivals, coming into the orphanage on February 11, 2009. • Sam is 4 years old and in pre-school. His dad died in December and his mom, who is a member of the church, can’t manage him and 3 other kids. She lives close by and we hope she visits regularly.

10. Jidel Pierre Antoine • Jidel is our newest arrival. He is a Valentine’s kid, coming in on February 14, 2009. • Jidel is 8 years old and in the second grade. Things are new to him now and he is just kinda seeing what’s up with all dis and dat. We know he’ll be fine. • Jidel’s dad died in January and his mom can’t raise him. • His uncle, Julien, is the preacher at the Limonade Church of Christ, about 8 miles from the orphanage

11. Sponsoring a child at the Cap Haitien Children’s Home (CHCH) • The second group of slides are all children who don’t necessarily live at the orphanage. • Bob, our youth minister, teaches English and also does the morning devotionals at the orphanage school and also teaches Bible and English at the church school. As such, he has had the blessings of getting to know some of the 300+ children from outside the orphanage that go to our 2 schools. The need is tremendous all over Haiti, and Bob has helped some of the children who either don’t have one or whose family can’t afford them. He’s also helping those children whose families can’t support them. In this way, the orphanage can be a real blessing to the community. These children have needs just like the orphanage children.

12. Junior Estimable • Junior is 14 years old and his father is dead. He lives with his mom and 3 younger sisters. His mother has no job. • Junior came to the school for food in the summer of 2008. He has adopted Bob as his father. He is now going to the church school. His books, tuition, clothes, and food are all expenses that he needs help on.

13. Dotie and Junior Francois • Dotie and older brother Junior both go to our school here. Junior was the first one that Bob started to helped last year. Dotie is 13 and Junior is 15. • Their mom is dead and they and their father live with other family. Their dad is a mason, but has a very hard time finding steady work in the Haitian economy. This year (2008) they needed help with school books and clothes. They always need help with food.

14. Rodlin and Rodline Silvest • Rodlin and Rodline came to us through Bob’s work in the orphanage school. Rodlin is 11 and in the 2nd grade while Rodline is 12 and in the 5th grade. • They share their home with Junior and Dotie Francois (see other slide) and their dad. It helps to keep expenses down. Their dad has no job but their mom sells stuff in the market. This year, we had to help them with lots of school stuff, clothes, and always food.

15. Jeffly George (Cowboy) • Cowboy is 11 years old and in the 2nd grade. He came to us through the orphanage school. • His mom has been dead for some time now. His father has no job and apparently no trade either. • This year, we had to pay for much of his school, books, and clothes. He always needs food. Sponsorship would help in these expenses.

16. Mackendy (Smakem Yakem) Yacinthlove • Smakem and his little brother Junior came to us through one of the children here at the orphanage who is friends with Smakem. • Their father left their family years ago and has not been heard from. Their mom has no job, she subsists on charity and what she can sell in the market. • While their mom is a Baptist, Smakem and Junior are coming to the church of Christ here now that they know they are loved by Jesus and us. • Smakem needs help with clothes, shoes, food and school.

17. Brij • Brij came to us from the church. He is 17 and an orphan, but he is too old to come into the orphanage. Still, he is going to school and needs help. • We got him a Christian home to stay in, but he still needs help with school and food. • Update December 10, 2008: Brij was baptized today!

18. Tchooby • Tchooby is 17 and came to us from one of the members in the church. His family lives in the mountains in San Rafael. They can’t afford to feed him, so he moved in with a friend in Cap in 2003 at the age of 12. Now, because the “friend” can’t afford to help him, he has come to us. He stayed with Bob for a week until he could find another place. • Tchooby is in the 10th grade and needs help with school, books, uniforms, clothes, and food.

19. Meesh • Meesh is 13 and in the 4th grade here at the orphanage school. He came to us because his dad died last year and his mom can’t afford to feed the family. We can’t house him because he does have a family, albeit a poor one. • Meesh is a quiet and sensitive kid but there is a fun side to him too. Bob reports that he is very appreciative whenever he is fed. • Meesh needs help with school, clothes, shoes, and food.

20. Landra and Manou • Landra and Manou are 2 sisters, 18 and 20 years of age. Their parents are dead and they live with our cook Nanot who took them in some time ago. They are also members of the church here. • While Nanot feeds them, she can’t afford to help them with school, so they can’t go. Sponsors are needed to help them with school and the expenses that go along with it.

21. Linda • Linda is a 13 year old orphan living with her grandma. She is a member of the Lord’s church here in Petit Anse. She wants to come into the orphange but we have no place for her. I don’t really know her well but do know she needs help with everything, including school which she can’t afford.

22. Jenno Pierre Lamar • Jenno is 24, a member of the church here, and the oldest of 13 kids. Being the oldest, he has not been permitted to finish school because his mom needs the $ for the younger ones. • It’s a Catch-22. He can’t get a job because he needs to finish his education (2 years left) but because he doesn’t have a job, he can’t pay to continue his education (or for food either). • Jenno needs help with his tuition, uniforms, books and other incidentals and of course…food.

23. Nancy’s Boys • Nancy and her 3 boys (L4R, Daniel, David, and Carlo) are members of the Hertz Church of Christ in Ca Haitien.  Nancy’s husband left her some time ago and she subsists on $27US/ month from part time work as a laundress at the orphanage. • Last year, the boys didn’t go to school.  Nancy couldn’t afford the tuition.  This year, through an arrangement with the school owner, we were able to send them to school tuition free.  But they still needed books, uniforms, shoes, and of course food.  That came to about $225 or about 9 months salary for Nancy.  Even a partial sponsorship would really help them

24. Sponsoring a child at the Cap Haitien Children’s Home (CHCH) • So those are our children, at least for now. Did you like one or more? We love them all! All of them made equally beautiful in God’s image and likeness. • If you have any other questions, please e-mail Bob Valerius at the orphanage. His email is on the next page. • And please please please don’t forget prayer. Prayer works! It is how we fellowship with our Creator. Please pray for all the children and all the people that are involved in the orphanage.

25. Contact Info for the CHCH • Bob Valerius, youth minister, CHCH • northeast125@yahoo.com • Ron & Dianna Cyphers, administrators, CHCH • rdcypherschch@hotmail.com • Jack Frye, elder, Southwest Church of Christ, Ada, OK • Denise Platt, super-secretary, Southwest Church of Christ, Ada, OK • www.swcocada.com • 1-877-332-3430