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Guest House Website *New*
I have been working away on a new website for the guest house. Your feedback would be welcomed! Current website: It’s been a great help and has all the information nicely condensed. New website: This new website is now moved to http://heartlineguesthouse.com. Since it’s on it’s own, I was able to add more details about…
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Projects Focused on the Guest House
What a couple weeks! Melissa and I are working fully on Heartline projects. Thankfully we have had the help of close friends! Barry, Nick and Josh have helped out so so much! At the guest house: – This week we were focused on stocking the gift shop… which was getting empty! We headed to the…
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Detailed Look at Today in Haiti
A day in Haiti is always difficult to explain. It’s a question we get asked a surprising number of times. Life here is different everyday. I often think, what is the most important thing I need to be doing here in Haiti. Is it running the Guest House? Is it helping with Haitian Creations? Is it talking with…
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Guest House Orientation *Video*
I have thought about making a video we can show to first time guests and groups that give an introduction of the guest house. I have failed to put the idea into action the idea. What really motivated me was the fact that Evan has a nice camera we could use for the filming. I figured…
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Packed Guest House / Construction / Painting / Pictures
The last few weeks have been a whirlwind at the guest house: We had an over-packed house with 41 people at the guest house. We just keep trying to break records here 🙂 There were enough cots for the groups and everyone had such a great spirits. To God’s credit, it went very smoothly! Adopting:…
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Quick Updates – Irresponsible Guests, Peanut, Creole Class
Guests We have been encouraged by some wonderful guests recently. Steve and Carol. They brought their whole family to Haiti – a set of triplets in 6th grade, two 9th grade girls, and themselves. They had such a refreshing passion for living out our faith. One night he was talking and he said, “It’s…
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4 Highlights – Movie, Cooking Test, UN Signs & more…
There have been a lot of random things happening recently. We have been preparing for a team that will be working specifically with Heartline. We have lot’s of projects for them to do! The team will be made up of people of all different ages. They will mostly be working out at the new property…
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Meeting Spot
It is always an honor to see groups of people meet at the guest house. I traditionally rationalize in my mind that it is coincidence or some sort of stroke of luck that people end up connecting with others while visiting the guest house. My logical mind has a hard time comprehending that other forces are at…
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Dinner Time Reflection
As Melissa mentioned before, January was a crazy, crazy month. I decided to investigate some statistics for the month! Guest Stats 221 Individual guests 441 Beds taken during the month 14 Average number of people staying on a given night 39 The max number of people we had stay for one night As you can…
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Full House (No, Not with the Tanners)
The month of January is going to be very busy. Below, in the picture, you can see all the different groups that will be coming through the guest house. It’s amazing how lives intersect in this place. Different groups passing through or staying for a longer period of time. Tonight we have almost every bed…