Highview To Haiti!: February 2025

Saturday, February 22, 2025

It's a Wild Ride

We had a roaring good time at our

Haiti Dinner and Silent Auction

on Saturday night.

There were even wild adventures to be had,

riding our on site tap tap!

Totals are still be calculated,

but we are well on our way to having raised just over

$10,000.00

to support our friends at

Auberge des Vieillards

in Pignon, Haiti.

These are vulnerable seniors now living in a loving community.

A HUGE thank you to

every contributor

every auction item donor

every dinner guest

every dessert maker

every person who sought donations

the kitchen crew

our competent meal servers

our valiant dishwashers

and to Brian and Lillian for their fearless leadership.

Thank you Lord, for the privilege of this partnership.

Monday, February 10, 2025

A Place in the Shade

We are happy to share with you these very latest pictures from Auberge des Vieillards in Pignon Haiti.

This is the finished gazebo that has been under construction, bit by bit, for the last little while. It existed as a mostly rounded cement platform until (drum roll please) our friend Eric was able to travel to Haiti this past month to help finish it off.

There were apparently LOTS of interesting challenges in completing this particular project. We hope to be able to bring you those details sooner than later.

The best way to get the latest updates, however, is to come to our Haiti Dinner and Auction on Saturday, February 22 (details below). We will be sharing the scope and sequence of all that's been going on at A des V these past months.

Meanwhile, it's great to see the updates on the paint job....

...and to know our friends now have a shady place to be outside. In a tropical environment, this unquestionably adds enormously to the overall 'living space,' not unlike a covered deck does for us in the summer.

Thank you Eric!

Thank you everyone, who helps make it possible to care for these precious ones!

Details of our Haiti Dinner and Silent Auction below!!!

Hope to see you there.

We invite you to join us in partnering with Pastor Abdon and Madame Lumide

in the astonishing manifestation of God's goodness that is

Auberge des Vieillards in Pignon, Haiti.

HAITI DINNER AND SILENT AUCTION

Saturday, February 22, 2025

Highview Community Church

295 Highview Drive KIT ON N2N 2K7

First seating 5:00 p.m.

Second seating 6:30 p.m.

Auction closes 8:00 p.m.

Full course turkey dinner including dessert.

Tickets are $40 Adult, $15.00 Child

A wide variety of quality items on which to bid.

You could also volunteer to be part of the Team.

Set up, tear down, meal servers, dishwashers.

For tickets to hold your space contact

Brian Ogilvie at bzogilvie@gmail.com

Ken Breithaupt at kdb@ptsoft.com

For general information, or to volunteer

please feel free to email me at rabreithaupt@hcckw.ca.

Looking forward to sharing in this adventure with you!

Ruth Anne Breithaupt

Missionary in Residence

Highview Community Church

Monday, February 3, 2025

Two More Faces of Hope

'Last but not least' certainly applies here, as we wrap up a little series of posts introducing our residents at Auberge des Vieillards.

(For pictures and the names of our other residents, please see previous Highview to Haiti blogs over the past few weeks.)

Jean-Claut

A gentle soul, we are told, who lives with dementia.

Jean-Richard

At 28, he is our youngest resident.

He suffered a spinal cord injury at the age of 16 years

when he fell out of a coconut tree.

The doctors say he should have died.

Instead, he is part of our A des V family.