Team Bio: Israel & Alison Snider

Before joining New Life Church, Alison and I had known that God was leading us to the mission field.  We looked at various mission outreaches over the course of the last few years from working on an airstrip in Papua New Guinea to the clean water projects going on throughout Central America.  We prayed about it and never felt lead to those mission fields.  When the trip to Haiti was brought up, we prayed about it and Alison knew right away that it is what God had for us.  It took me a little longer to get there.  I really felt led that God would give an opportunity to use specific skill sets and when that came about I would know that it was what God wanted and not just what I wanted. When the chance came to build housing for Haitian families in which they worked side by side with us to take a vested interest in there home, that opportunity spoke volumes to me and confirmed what Alison had been led to in prayer. 

This mission trip will take all of us from New Life, our friends, our friends of friends and all of those who donate and lift us up in prayer to Haiti.  We know not everyone can physically go and not everyone can financially give but everyone can lift this team, our families and this trip up to the Lord in fervent prayer.

A Video Created by YWAM for Haiti

Here is an awesome video with many of the staff we worked with this week including Owen, Dieunack, Alex, and Samuel.
http://vimeo.com/10546669

Great Haiti video

Please take a few minutes to watch this amazing video...
http://www.royaleagency.com/foundation/

Village Children

Here are some pictures of the village kids we had a chance to spend time with while working in Timonette.

Alison enjoying some time loving on the kids. 

 Big Momma.  Not the name we gave her but what the people of the village called her.

Gemson - he teared up a couple of times when talking about losing his family in the earthquake. 

Clothes Washing 

Naptime, right on the rocks

Prison Photos

Here are some photos from the prison.  The first is when we went back to give the shoes and soap to all the prisoners.  Patrick wanted me to speak and explain to them that it wasn't us that paid for the shoes with our money but that God had provided extra for our trip and though we didn't know what he had planned for the money he showed us that he wanted us to use it on them. 

5th Section Trip

Here are some photos from our tour of the 5th Section of St Marc.  It is known as the poorest area around St Marc and also was the center of Voodoo in the area.  This is the area that the YWAM base has focused there efforts and the results are already tangible, as you can see by the writing on one of the houses.

I thought the 5th Section to almost look like a mix of Vietnam and African plains.  It truly was a beautiful but poverty ladened area. Here you can see rice plants and banana trees.

Houses in Ba-la-gay.  They are preparing a medical clinic in this village that will be staffed by a doctor out of Florida.  They had the building up and the water filtration unit set up.

These 3 photos are from Ba-la-lay village.  This is where the first Homes of Hope were built in 2006.  The villagers were very friendly and as you can see by the writing on the building above have been very receptive to Gods message.  This village was minutes away from where the Cholera epidemic started and over 20% of its population died from the sickness.

Team Photos

Here are a couple team photos we took.  One from inside the newly finished house and the other in front of the YWAM base.