A small rural church school in Marmalade, Haiti is the beneficiary of lots of loved ones from Celebration Community Beach Church in Naples, Florida.
Yesterday I went to the post office to check for Help for Haiti mail and found a check from Celebration Community Beach Church for $7,247. This was the proceeds from their Haiti Block Party where members of the church bought cement Blocks for $6.00 each to build two new rooms at the church school in Marmalade. The members of the Celebration Church bought over 1200 blocks and provided enough to complete the two rooms from foundation to new roof. One room is a secure room with a steel door to store Manna Pack food to feed the 250 kids a lunch every day at school and to store a generator when the school day is over. The second room is to bring the kindergarten class from under a tarp attached to one side of the building into a room of their own.
Many of the donations were made in memory of or to honor friends and relatives. What an awesome way to bring honor and memory to a loved one, knowing lives in a desperate and hurting part of the world will be changed because of this act of generosity. Every dollar will go to the building program and because the goal of $6000 was exceeded, $1247 will go to help pay the teachers of these children. Help for Haiti has committed to pay the 8 teachers $60 per month for 10 months of the school year. This money is to supplement the pay the school provides with a goal of having each teacher receive $100 per month, or $1000 per year. We believe it is important that the parents help pay for their school. Can we really imagine working for ten months for $600 to $1000? Yet they come, they teach and they hope for the future of these kids. You would like these teachers.
The following is the list of those who are being remembered or honored by the members of Celebration Community Beach Church. Thank you Gene, Gordy, and Bill for making this happen. You are great encouragers of Help for Haiti.
IN MEMORY
PATRICK PITTMAN
LITTLE POCKET PUDDY
GWENDOLYN MILNE
VERNON GUNN
ETHEL & BUFORD HILER
DANIEL HERNANDEZ
TYLER SWIFT
HUGH & VALERA BARKER
JOSEPH MILLER
JOHN & OFFILIA HAVLIK
CHARLES & ROMA HORTON
JOAN & JERRY HEFLIN
STEVE TAYLOR
LOUISE HALE
LESTER HALE
JOHN CASTEEN
JANE SCOTT 6-17-2008
NANCY PATRICE FRITZ 8-24-59 – 5-10-74
CLARENCE & MILDRED PORTER
RONALD PORTER
VERN PORTER
CORA PORTER
GREG YARBROUGH
FRAN YARBROUGH
DENNIS YARBROUGH
DAROLD COLLINS
BETTY LOWMAN
EDWARD MARKS
JACKIE COWMANN
MARY & FRANK DETTMAN
MR. & MRS. A.J. LEIWCKE
JONE REICH
CANCER BITERS
KELLY & TIM McCARTHY
WINTON, DANIEL & RUTH BRIGHT
PEG HOPKINS
CHET BORIS
JOSEPHINE BORIS
BLAND BURROUGHS Sr.
ARCHIE McINTOSH
ELSIE McINTOSH
ARCHIE JAY McINTOSH
KAY WALTON
PATRICK COLLINS
TONIA ROPER
EILA LEWIS
RICHARD HOPKINS
ORANGE HOPKINS
EDWARD P. BERGSTROM
DANIEL H. BERGSTROM
AL TILLINGHAST
IN HONOR
BECKY McINTOSH –grandkids
GENE & ANNIE SCOTT
CHAD, BRIAN & CURT SCOTT
MARSHA CASTEEN
BOB CASTEEN
IRMA CASTEEN
BRENT MORFORD
SARA MORFORD
MEHRON MORFORD
MARWA MORFORD
JACKIE JEROME
STEPHANIE JEROME
JENNY & TOM BEAR
BARBARA, AMY & JOIE
GREVE FAMILY
MONAHAN FAMILY
LINDA PETERS
DONNA SOBLE
JOANNE ALLEN
CHET HOPKINS
ROSEANNE VanPATTEN
WALT FLEMING
FARNSWORTH FAMILY
BARBIE WILLIAMS
LARRY ANTONELLIS
Thanking God for every name on this list and for those that love them.
Sincerely,
Jim & Betsy Willey
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