About Fond Doux, Haiti
Chi Alpha is committed to missions. We support that every student should go on at least one short-term missions trip during their studies. We challenge students to serve in missions for one year after they graduate. Give a year and pray about a lifetime.
The Chi Alpha team that I am involved with goes on regular short-term missions trips to Fond Doux near Vialet near Petit Goave, Haiti. This place is located just northeast of two lakes, which can be seen on the satellite picture on the left above: They are in the upper middle of the southern part of Haiti, below the island. You also can find 'our place' on Google Earth, the coordinates are 18o, 25', 30'' North, 72o, 58', 38'' West (there is a picture from Google Earth on my report page).
Fond Doux is located in between Miragoane and Petit Goave at 'Rue
Nationale #2', one of 4 highways in Haiti (the red lines in the map
above). They got repaired and re-paved in fall 2007, which basically
means, they are like paved country roads now. It now takes us
approximately 3 hours to cover the 70 miles to go west to our place
from Port au Prince.
I have been on eight of nine trips to Haiti since May 2002. We typically stay for two weeks or so, with team sizes between 10 and 16 people. We are visiting pastor Bob Jones, Papi, and Mami, and all our 'kids' there. Our ministry outreaches in Haiti include:
- Feeding programs for kids
- Soccer outreaches
- Preaching at several local and regional churches
- Hut to hut prayer ministry
- Discipling programs
- Playing with the kids and encouraging the teens
About half of our students and staff traveled more than once to Haiti. We want to make an impact on 'our' valley, and we understand the need to be consistent in visiting regularly. Here is a list with more details:
| Number of trips | People who went this often | Number of people |
| 9 or more | Kimberly Bui | 1 |
| 10 | Winston Bui | 1 |
| 9 | Sara Benton, Brian Kloefkorn | 2 |
| 8 | Uwe Muench, Jessica Yoder | 2 |
| 7 | -- | 0 |
| 6 | -- | 0 |
| 5 | Jeff Grogan, Matthew Lunders | 2 |
| 4 | Clint Arasmith, Tim Faas, Amy Morgan (Pounds) | 3 |
| 3 | Mitch Goldenberg, Andy Hayes, Angela Lewis | 3 |
| 2 | Florence Akinyemi, Dave Citrin, Adam Fitzpatrick, Lynnell Lawson (Hayes), Royce Moore, Charles Ranta, Carrie Raymond (Dahmer), Rebekah Thomure, Jake Spain | 9 |
| 1 | Jerrod Adair, Amy Anderson, Desiree Cabot, Melanie Farley (Moore), Karen Greening (Wasch), Heath Harris, Kayla Hedden, Kellie Hoelting, Phil Howard, Jonathan Lai, Joseph Lanham, Mark McLellan, Josh Neustrom, Chris Peters, Brian Pounds, Farika Rusli, Rob Satterfield, Britani Siebeneck, Matthew Silverman, Ryan Stroder, Eric Thomure, Regina Waage (Peters), Anne Walters, Joel Wingo, Jordan Yoder | 25 |
Links to detailed reports and to pictures are available on my report page (as a separate page). You also can include these links and short reports on this page by clicking below:
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This is a picture of our place in Fond Doux, Haiti, from Google Earth. In the bottom of the picture is the highway Rue Nationale #2. You can see the little way up to our place and the buildings on our property. West to our place, closer to the highway, you can see the smaller buildings from a Wesleyan church and school.
You also can find good short write-ups and testimonies about our trips 2 to 8, including some good pictures, on Brian Kloefkorn's Haiti reports page.
In the following you can see my short little history on our Haiti mission trips:
- Kimberly Bui traveled to our place in Haiti several times by herself. When I get more details, I will present them here.
- Summer 1999(?): Trip 0 -- A team from NSU in Oklahoma
Winston Bui, Kimberly Bui, Jeff Grogan, Amy Morgan (Pounds), Joel Wingo,... - May 22 -
June 2, 2002: My first Haiti missions trip.
14 people: Uwe Muench, Winston Bui, Kimberly Bui, Brian Kloefkorn, Sara Benton, Jeff Grogan, Matt Lunders, Jerrod Adair, Jake Spain, Rob Satterfield, Eric Thomure, Tim Faas, Amy Morgan (Pounds), Karen Greening (Wasch).
My pictures from this trip (try here w/o facebook account). - January 3 - January 12, 2003: My second Haiti
missions trip.
14 people: Uwe Muench, Winston Bui, Kimberly Bui, Brian Kloefkorn, Sara Benton, Jeff Grogan, Matt Lunders, Tim Faas, Rebekah Thomure, Jessica Yoder, Royce Moore, Melanie Farley (Moore), Phil Howard, Clint Arasmith.
Please see Brian's report for more details.
A video from this trip. - May 19 - June 1, 2003: My third Haiti missions
trip.
12 people: Uwe Muench, Winston Bui, Kimberly Bui, Brian Kloefkorn, Sara Benton, Jessica Yoder, Jeff Grogan, Matt Lunders, Andy Hayes, Amy Morgan (Pounds), Jake Spain, Brian Pounds.
Sara Benton stayed another 2 weeks.
Please see Brian's report for more details.
My pictures from this trip (try here w/o facebook account) - For three weeks in July and August 2003, 2 people stayed in Haiti: Kimberly Bui and Amy Morgan (Pounds).
- January 4 - January 15, 2004: My fourth
Haiti missions trip.
15 people: Uwe Muench, Winston Bui, Kimberly Bui, Brian Kloefkorn, Sara Benton, Jessica Yoder, Jeffrey Grogan, Matt Lunders, Andy Hayes, Tim Faas, Lynnell Lawson (Hayes), Carrie Raymond (Dahmer), Amy Anderson, Josh Neustrom, Kellie Hoelting.
Please see Brian's report for more details.
My pictures from this trip (try here w/o facebook account) - June 3
- June 15, 2004: My fifth Haiti missions trip.
13 people: Uwe Muench, Winston Bui, Kimberly Bui, Brian Kloefkorn, Sara Benton, Jessica Yoder, Andy Hayes, Royce Moore, Lynnell Lawson (Hayes), Rebekah Thomure, Regina Waage (Peters), Chris Peters, Charles Ranta.
Please see Brian's report for more details.
My pictures from this trip (try here w/o facebook account) - May 18
- June 1, 2005: My sixth Haiti missions trip.
16 people: Uwe Muench, Winston Bui, Kimberly Bui, Brian Kloefkorn, Sara Benton, Jessica Yoder, Matt Lunders, Carrie Raymond (Dahmer), Angela Lewis, Britani Siebeneck, Anne Walters, Joseph Lanham, Heath Harris, Jordan Yoder, Mark McLellan, Ryan Stroder.
Please see Brian's report for more details.
My pictures from this trip (try here w/o facebook account) - July 3 - July 13, 2007: My seventh Haiti missions trip.
12 people: Uwe Muench, Winston Bui, Brian Kloefkorn, Sara Benton, Jessica Yoder, Clint Arasmith, Dave Citrin, Kayla Hedden, Adam Fitzpatrick, Florence Akinyemi, Mitch Goldenberg, Jonathan Lai
Winston Bui stayed a few days longer, until July 19, 2007, Uwe Muench and Sara Benton stayed until July 23, 2007.
Please see Brian's report for more details.
Also: Here is Mitch's report for more details. - Dec 10 - Dec 21, 2007: Trip 8
10 people: Winston Bui, Brian Kloefkorn, Sara Benton, Jessica Yoder, Clint Arasmith, Angela Lewis, Mitch Goldenberg, Dave Citrin, Tim Faas, Charles Ranta
Charles stayed a few days less, he had to leave on Dec 18, 2007.
Please see Brian's report for more details.
Mitch's pictures from this trip on facebook. - (Upcoming:) June 25 - July 10, 2008: Trip 9 -- My eighth Haiti missions
trip.
13 people: Uwe Muench, Winston Bui, Brian Kloefkorn, Sara Benton, Jessica Yoder, Clint Arasmith, Angela Lewis, Mitch Goldenberg, Adam Fitzpatrick, Florence Akinyemi, Farika Rusli, Matt Silverman, Desiree Cabot.