His Home for Children Orphanage

And one last post. One of my brother Ron's best friends (since kindergarten), Travis and his wife Jennifer have adopted 2 boys from Haiti and have been in the process of waiting for them to come home for 3 years.  The boys are still in Haiti and thank goodness they are safe, though the orphanage they live in has been damaged. Travis has some other good organizations that you can donate to, so this is one last email I am sharing with you. (and please take a moment to sign the petition in the previous post to allow the children who are adopted to be joined with their parents.  Actually, here is the link again, to make it easy for you.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/visasforadoptedhaitianchildren/.
Michele

Hi,

 I want to thank you all for the outpouring of prayer, support, and concern for us and our boys in Haiti.  It has been very encouraging to us in our prayer and hope. Below I have some updates as well as some answers to your questions.

 

Praise Items - Latest Information specific to the orphanage and our boys, Steevenson & Sterlin:

• There has been contact with Junior, the directors right-hand-man – we don’t have more information than that.  
• There are cracked walls in both orphanage houses, and the girls' house's (which also houses the babies and Hal & Chris and their family) back security wall came down. But thankfully both houses are still standing and everyone is fine.

 

Prayer Requests:

• Continued safety and security for the orphanage and those in Haiti
• Health issues that are common with such natural disasters: sewage, dirty water, injury complications, food, communication and transportation difficulties, etc…
• Availability of aid to the orphanage and surrounding areas:  food, water, etc… 
• Other/Newly displaced/orphaned children
• Wisdom for Haitian governmental officials as they accept help from outside sources
• Patience, hope and peace for adoptive families waiting to be united some day – the adoption process, we can assume at this point is at a stand still.  It might be weeks or months till we know how this will impact the adoption process.

 

Ways you can help:

• Prayer
• Financial assistance to the following and other NGO’s that are already located within Haiti:
• HIS Home For Children Orphanage (http://www.hishomeforchildren.com/ )
• Red Cross (http://www.redcross.ca )
• World Vision (http://www.worldvision.ca )
• Samaritan’s Purse (http://www.samaritanspurse.ca )
• Power to Change (http://powertochange.com/organization/ )xx

 

Other sources of information:

• HIS Home For Children website with some information (http://www.hishomeforchildren.com/ )
• Facebook feed.  Search “HIS Home For Children” (http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=88561638823&ref=ts )
• An article about a teacher at the Morning Star Christian Academy, a place we have stayed on our last two trips, as well as it talks a little about the His Home For Children Orphanage director (http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/1989128,JCA-grad-Haiti-earthquake-JO011310.article )

 

God Bless you!

 

Travis & Jennifer Whims

 

PS:  Please feel free to forward to anyone you think might like to have the above information and join in prayer for the Haitian situation.