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Merry Christmas!
Our family would like to express our sincere gratitude and thanks to all of our donors, child sponsors, ministry partners, family and friends during this Christmas season! As we reflect on 2018 and usher to a new year, we would be remiss if we did not take the time to thank every single individual who took the time to pray and financially support FGIM, the missionaries serving on the ground, our church community in Jacmel and the girls at Faith House Orphanage. It brings great pleasure to our hearts to know that we have such an amazing group of people stateside who believe in the work that God is doing in Haiti. We pray that this Christmas season is filled with love, joy, peace and happiness as we remember the birth of our precious Savior, Jesus Christ. May you all find comfort and hope this upcoming year in the fact that we have a Messiah who is seated on a throne awaiting His triumphant return to this earth. God bless you all! In Christ,
The St Louis Family
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Faith House Orphanage Update...We want to thank everyone who sent a gift to the girls through the Amazon Wish List this month! All of the girls outgrew their clothes and shoes and needed several items. Thanks to our child sponsors and supporters, we were able to get several of the girls new clothes, shoes and other gifts that we put on their wishlist! We still have a few girls who have not received all of the items that they need on the wish list. Your support would be appreciated immensely! You can access the wish list by clicking on the following link. You will need to have an Amazon account and must use a computer to adequately access the list. We also celebrated several birthdays these past few months. Marie Christelle, Roseberline & Christella turned 17 this year!
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 | Jeremy Johnson gifting Gracie (one of our girls from Faith House) with a gift from his daughter back home | |  |
Kimmey and Dani (from Hillcrest Church) preparing a birthday party for the girls at Faith House | |
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Marie Christelle on her birthday. She turned 17 | |  |
Amazon Wishlist items coming in | |  |
Landy & Gracie at the orphanage | |
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Construction with Chase...Chase Barbrey is responsible for all the construction and maintenance projects for FGIM. If you are interested in knowing our current status on the construction projects and/or you would like to serve in this capacity, please email Chase at barbreyc@gmail.com . We are just beginning our fundraising campaign and still are very far away from meeting our goal of building the campus of FGIM in Haiti. If you feel led to become a monthly financial partner with just $50/mth or want to give a legacy gift of $1k or more, you can do so now by clicking below. The gift designation is "Property Building Fund" on the website. Thank you and God bless you!
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 | This is a picture of the beginnings of the maintenance building. Columns are in place and the foundation is solid | |  |
Our very first official building on the property is in the works | |
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 | FGIM was blessed a few months ago with a cement mixer by a generous donor | |  | This is a picture of the guys working on the wall on our property | |  |
FGIM was blessed by an amazing donor with 2 diesel generators and thanks to these donations, we have sustainable backup power year round | |
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This is a picture of the maintenance building construction in progress | |  |
This is a picture of the storage section of the maintenance building | |  |
This is a picture of the two bay areas of the maintenance building in progress | |  |
These are two of the workers working on the foundation of the building | |
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Ship that Bus!We want to extend our sincere gratitude to First Baptist Church of Opelika and every donor that gave via Facebook to help us get this bus! Because of your generosity, we will have an operational bus that will be used to help our girls commute back and forth to church from the orphanage. The bus is currently stateside and will be shipped on January 4th, 2019 while the Barbrey family is currently in the states. We are currently collecting supplies to fill up the bus prior to it coming to Haiti. A few of the supplies we need are: girls clothes, shoes, used laptops for our computer lab, folding tables/chairs, school desks, storage bins, towels, sheets & pillows, canned foods, cake mix, household items, cooking pots/pans, serving bowls and cleaning products. For a complete list, please contact Chase Barbrey at barbreyc@gmail.com All items must be received before the 4th of January.
If you would like to send any of the above mentioned items to Haiti, please mail to: Chase Barbrey, 1310 McCoy Street, Opelika, AL 36801. Thank you and may the Lord bless you!
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Meet the Officers...Our short term missions ministry is now being managed by Kyle and Jessie Officer. They are full-time missionaries serving in Haiti alongside the St Louis family and the Barbrey family. They are now responsible for assisting teams with all trip planning. If you or your church sense the Lord calling you to go and serve on a trip to Haiti, please email Kyle & Jessie Officer for more information:
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| SHORT TERM MISSIONS
During this past Fall, we had the privilege of hosting Mid-Atlantic Community Church from Gambrills, MD, that helped build our 9th grade classroom! This group worked tirelessly to ensure that we had the classroom ready in time for the first day of school. We are thankful for this amazing team that continues to support this ministry through construction. We also had Jeremy Johnson and Carl Wagner from Fort Worth, TX, who came and led a phenomenal worship conference with our church and several different worship leaders around the community. We were blessed to see these two very talented men of God help worship leaders around our city grow closer to God through worship. During the worship conference, we were blessed to have a team from Anderson Mill Road Baptist Church from Spartanburg, SC, spend a week at a soccer camp with over 100 kids in our community! They also went to several homes sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ to those that did not have a relationship with him. We then had two teams from Hillcrest Baptist Church from Enterprise, AL, who blessed our community with door to door evangelism, prison ministry, self-defense training for the girls at Faith House and the security guards on post. They also helped with construction on our property. After Hillcrest, we were blessed to host Willowbrook Baptist Church from Huntsville, AL, who brought all the missionary families some much-needed supplies, built a screened-in porch at our guest house, and assisted Chase with other construction projects on our property such as the Maintenance Building.
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Hillcrest Baptist Church preparing for a food distribution in a rural area 2.5 hours away from Jacmel | |  |
Hillcrest team helping with the wall on our property | |  |
Jeremy Johnson & Carl Wagner at our Worship Conference | |
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Hillcrest Baptist Church from Enterprise, AL, led by Michelle & Paul Cartmill | |  | Michelle Cartmill conducting door to door evangelism in tent city | |
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Jeremy Johnson during the worship workshop this year teaching worship leaders from 7 different churches in our community | |  |
First day of the worship workshop | |
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Kimmey's Korner...These are a few pictures of the ladies who Kimmey Barbrey works with every Tuesday morning in our Product Development ministry. Kimmey and her husband, Chase, have been serving in Haiti alongside the St Louis Family since March of 2017.
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 | The Willowbrook team was in full sewing mode with teaching these ladies new patterns for the Christmas season | |  |
This is a picture displaying all of the ladies learning the new pattern from the amazing Willowbrook team | |  | Meet Mrs. Normil, one of the ladies who works closely with Kimmey every Tuesday. She is also a member of New Perspectives Church | |
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Update from the Church...The following pictures will show a variety of things that happened in the life of the church during this past Fall. We had one of our precious members go home to be with the Lord, we had a Family Sunday picnic that hosted over 300 people from the community, we had a voodoo priest accept Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior at the age of 65 and our Youth program has grown exponentially over these last 3 months.
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This is a picture of Victoire Jean Pierre (bottom row first on the left). She passed away last month suddenly at the age of 39 yrs. She was one of our first members when we planted our church. We know that she is in the hands of the Almighty. She served faithfully in our children's ministry | |  |
These are a few pictures of the funeral. There were over 500 people from the community that came as she was a pillar in our area | |  |
This is a picture of Monel (our driver) speaking at the funeral. Victoire came to know Christ through the soccer team (Fresh Cool). Monel is wearing one of the jerseys | |
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 | God is working powerfully in our youth. We are blessed to have Hands & Feet Ministries bringing their orphans to our church for church every Sunday. They are active and serving the Lord | |  | This is a picture of the youth group during one of their activities on Sunday afternoons | |
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Picture of Marco Jean Pierre grilling chicken during our Family Sunday Picnic last month | |  |
Lorphine and the amazing team from our church that worked tirelessly to prepare fried plantains, bread fruit and picklies (spicy coleslaw) for over 300 people that attended our Family Sunday Picnic | |  |
This is the Officer family helping to serve food at the Family Sunday Picnic | |
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Update from our School...This school year has been exciting! As of this school year, we have 102 students enrolled (grades Pre-K through 9th). We also launched a school feeding program that was generously sponsored by Providence Church in Ormand Beach, Florida. In addition to the feeding program, we had a fantastic parent teacher meeting that motivated the parents to be active in their child's lives and academic future. Lastly, we had 3 teachers earn our "Teacher of the Month" award for going above and beyond in the classroom. God has been shining His light over our school and for that reason, we are blessed. If you would like to donate specifically towards our school program, you can do so by clicking on the following link below to help advance our vision to educate, equip and empower the future generation of Haiti! We have several students from the community that are in need of financial support to fund their education. By donating $30/mth, you can help meet a significant need. Your gift will change lives for years to come. If you feel led to support, you can do that by clicking on the link below and designating your gift to the school program. Thank you and God bless you!
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This is a picture of Ruthe Doresca (our school secretary) preparing the meals for the students before classes begin | |  |
This is a picture of our parent and teacher meeting. Featured to the right is our principal and the teachers. To the left are the parents | |
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These are the 7th-9th grade students taking their mid-term exams before the Christmas break. Landy is definitely focused:-) | |  | This is a picture of Mr. Fritz Joseph, our 4th grade teacher, receiving the "Teacher of the Month" award! | |  |
This is a picture of our flag ceremony. Students and teachers recite the Haitian National Anthem and their pledge of allegiance every morning in the school yard | |  |
Karine taking one of her comprehensive exams | |
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Summer Interns
We were blessed to have hosted two amazing interns this past summer! Veronica Miranda was sent by one of our ministry partners, Partners in Action to help us with our business development program. She was a blessing to our community and staff! We also had Sarah Carter who spent a month with our girls at Faith House teaching them English. She was a blessing to our orphanage and got a real idea of what life is like living and serving in Haiti. If you are interested in interning with our ministry, please email Pierre St Louis below for more information:
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Veronica Miranda on the right | |
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PRAISE REPORT
We want to take a minute to thank the Lord for an amazing testimony! Last month, a voodoo priest who lived across the street from our church surrendered his life over to Jesus! After hearing the gospel message at Victoire Jean Pierre's funeral, he went back home and said that the Lord began to speak into his heart to leave his current lifestyle and to follow Him. He did just that. Just like the disciple Matthew left everything behind and followed Jesus, Jerra did the same thing. That evening he burned everything that he owned that dealt with practicing witchcraft and was on the first pew early Sunday morning grabbing a hold of the first leader he could find to surrender his life to Jesus! In his own words, he said, "Nothing is ever going to make me go back to where I once was. I'm going to follow Jesus until I die." His name is Jerra Jean Pierre. Please keep him in your prayers as his conversion has radically spread throughout our entire community.
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| WAYS TO GIVE
As the year is coming to a close, FGIM wanted to thank everyone for their prayers and financial support. It is because we have people like you praying for us and giving on a regular basis that testimonies like Brother Jerra's are possible. We invite you to prayerfully consider giving an end of the year gift to help FGIM reach its goal before year end. Your gift allows us to advance the work of Jesus Christ to the current and future generation in this country. Future Generation International Missions Inc., is a registered 501(c)3. 100% of charitable gifts are tax-deductible. Regardless of what you are seeing on the reports and in the news, God is working powerfully in the city of Jacmel! If you would like to give a legacy gift, feel free to click on the link below or you can mail a check by sending to the following address: Future Generation International Missions Inc., P.O. Box 443, Owens Cross Roads, AL 35763
Thank you for your love and support!
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