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Mission Discovery teams serving last week in Jamaica assisted in updating HOLD the children school rosters at Victory Christian Fellowship and at Jamaican Christian School for the Deaf. New photos and updated information were gathered for each child at the schools. The the 2011/2012 school year is off to a great start for both schools. There are seven new children among the 42 special needs children attending JCSD this school year. A large number of students at Victory Christian were graduated on the public school in 2011.

Thanks to the generous and compassionate friends of Bethany FWB Church in Broken Arrow OK, four children have been sponsored at the HOLD the children Home in Lavaud, Haiti. Earlier this year 12 new children were rescued from the streets of Haiti and brought into the HOLD Orphanage. Six of the other new children still need sponsors.

The 2011 annual Mission Discovery trip to the HOLD the children Home in Lavaud, Haiti has been tentatively schedule. The focus of this spring trip is the citywide crusade held in the center of downtown Port-de-Paix. The crusade normally commences the first Sunday after Easter but since Easter is unusually late this year, the crusade will begin on Sunday April 3rd and continue through Sunday April 10th.

A recent visit to the HOLD the children sponsored school ap Haitian, Haiti was exciting encouraging and very humbling. A small team of 15 short term missionaries arrived in Cap Haitian on a small plane that flew directly to CAP from Fort Lauderdale. Filled with excitment, the team visited the Christian Alliance School in Limonade. The school was recently the receipient of a $25,000 gift to help finish constructing the school building. The team was anxious to see the progress on the school. When last visited, the school did not have a roof.