News & Upates from TEM

(Lance & Sam’s entries start from the beginning of the mission trip) Lance, Day 1:  Today’s events in my life were very interesting and will be remembered for a lifetime. It started out waking up in the Days Inn in Fort...

  The team from First Baptist Church of Walterboro SC had a safe trip to Haiti and up the mountain to the mission house today. We had a delicious dinner prepared for us by Ginette, and now the team is outside playing...

  This entry is just to let the people back home know that the work force has arrived. We picked up Joe, Bill and Andy from the airport this afternoon and made it up the mountain safely. We quickly put Andy to work...

What a beautiful day it is in Haiti today! Last night a much-needed rain made sleeping easy as it fell on the tin roof of the mission house. Today is market day. The market is near us, and I took Simon, Blanco and Madame Do...

It's that time of year again – time for our Annual Pastors Conference in Z'Orange, Haiti! This year it will be held April 14-17. We will have attendance by pastors, deacons and workers in the churches. The Haitians will...

  The Haiti Bargain-Bake Sale last weekend was a great success, in spite of the stormy weather! The Seniors of Wright Baptist Church host these sales, along with the help of many others, and this one blessed TEM with...

What a wonderful week we have had here in Z'Orange. We taught Bible stories to hundreds of school kids, kids in the local villages and in Daniel's voodoo village. There is no way to explain the joy that we received as we...

Report by Pastor Lonnie Happy Saturday! Most Americans can appreciate a good walk…especially on a Saturday morning. Now, I don't know about yours, but our Saturday has been blessed with a walk of a different nature…much...

We had a very relaxing day today. After breakfast we helped Ginette sweep and mop the mission house. The dust here is unbelievable; you can dust and then watch the dust settle before you even leave the room. When the group...

Report by Ken Lawrence It has been a fantastic week so far, and today was no different. It was so refreshing to wake to the sound of chickens and donkeys rather than my alarm clock. For me this week has been all about...

Last night we went to Daniel’s voodoo village to show the Jesus film. As you can see by the photos we had well over 100 people. This makes several times they have seen the film, but they just keep asking to see it again....

Another beautiful morning in Haiti with the roosters starting to crow around 12:30 a.m., donkeys heehawing, dogs barking, babies crying, and around 5 a.m. the church is full of people singing praises to the Lord! After...

Today has been a very busy day. We got up around 7 a.m. and had breakfast - French toast - at 7:30. Afterward the team got ready for the first VBS here at Jerusalem Baptist Church. At the first session we had over 30...

      The team from Greater Little Rock Baptist Church of Pensacola has arrived in Haiti!

We got up early this morning around 5:30 and started stripping beds and loading the suitcases on Gabriel. Within an hour everyone had grabbed a little breakfast and was on Gabriel ready to go. We had a non-eventful trip to...

Report by Team Leader Lisa Terrell Thursday evening's devotion time was bittersweet as we knew it would be our last "devo" where our Haitian translators would be with us (they left to go home to Port today after our final...

Report by Hailey Elder Awaken my soul, come awake To hunger, to seek, to thirst Awaken first love, come awake, To do as you did at first Spirit of the Living God come fall afresh on me, Come wake me from my sleep Blow...

Report by Madison Wheat Last night as the group had our nightly devotions, one of the leaders from Morrison Heights Baptist Church in Clinton, MS asked one of our four amazing interpreters, Peraton, to share his testimony...

Report by Rachel Autrey Today was our first medical clinic in Z'Orange. It was amazing to watch God work among His people and bring 210 beautiful Haitians to us for medical help. We did several different things throughout...

Today Betty, Linda and I went down to New Life to pick up the Morrison Heights Baptist Church team. We went ahead to buy some groceries, and then met Simon and Blanco, who had followed us in Gabriel, on the road to New...

I arrived in Haiti on Wednesday to get ready for two teams coming in over the next two weeks. We have Morrison Heights Baptist Church, from Clinton MS, coming in on Monday with a medical team; following them we will have...

TEM has hosted many short-term medical teams and now, Lord willing, we will have a permanent medical presence in Haiti. We feel that this concern has been answered by the Lord. He has provided the vision for us to build a...

Report by Irene What an emotional last day! As I sit here, memories start flashing up. What a great experience to be here and experience the presence of God and his work among the Haitian people and in us. Sadness is...

  First Baptist Church of St. Charles team members at the Port au Prince airport, ready to head for home. On our way to the airport, we stopped at the memorial for the 2010 earthquake victims.