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A sturdy house and a door

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A sturdy house and a door. Two important possessions many of us take for granted in the US. To feel safe, secure, covered and protected. I will count my blessings and not take those things for granted again. My eyes and heart were opened further when a friend, Morgan, posted about 2 families in Haiti needing doors for their new houses. Morgan was helping Kassidy raise money for these 2 families, to have a “real” house and they still needed doors. LanLan with 2 young children and Greg with a young son. You see they lived in structures they assembled from scrape pieces of different materals…I’m guessing most likely with dirt floors. They now have small, sturdy cinder block homes….covered, protected from the elements, safe and secure. LAF is so happy to purchase 1 metal door for a family. A local welder will come install it. They had already raised part of the money for the second door. If you want to help them reach that goal the information is at the end of this post.

We are so happy to give Kassidy of Living Water Mission a Love, Action, Faith Scholarship! We’re excited to help one of these families have a secure house!

I am Kassidy Eberlan Hyppolite and I am a missionary in Haiti. I have lived in Haiti 6 years full time and started visiting Haiti in 2015. My ministry is Living Water Missions.

Our mission at Living Water Missions is to love, feed, educate, build relationships, and share the love of Jesus Christ with the Haitian people.

I have lived in Haiti full time since 2018. I started out by working at an orphanage and in 2021 I felt the Lord call me to start my own ministry to serve local communities. We have a preschool with 30 children, 8 employees, a feeding program, a summer feeding program that provides thousands of meals, and we do a lot of community outreach. We recently just built 2 houses for community members. Their houses were made out of sticks, tarps, and sheet metal before we were able to build a small house for them. Not only are we able to help them with their living conditions but also share the love and word of God with them. I am so blessed the Lord called me to Haiti full time to serve. I pray each year we are able to expand and continue to be a light in the darkness.

These families already had a “home”…because they live together, love each other and take care of each other. Now their new sturdy houses complete their home and make their lives easier and better.

If you would like to help purchase the second door or support Kassidy, in any way, with her ministry to the Haiti people, below are ways to contact her. I know she appreciates your prayers as well.

They can contact me at livingwatermissions@ outlook.com and My Facebook group is called – Kassidy Eberlan- Haiti Mission. She has a PayPal donate button but sadly I can’t get it to work on this hosting site. (WordPress)

LHS 2020 – Alexis Ferguson

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Things are a little different this year for meeting our LHS Recipient.  With the Covid virus wrecking the plans of the Class of 2020 and because of social distancing we were not able to meet our recipient in person.  We truly miss putting a face with the name we chose, visiting with them and learning more about their hopes, dreams and goals for their life.  So we don’t have a picture from Awards Night, like we have in the past, because it was cancelled.

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But I’m very happy to announce our Lufkin High School LAF Recipient this year.  Her name is Alexis Ferguson.  She has been active in FFA all 4 yrs at LHS.  She has served in various different capacities like Historian, Sentinel, Fundraising and did service work on local, state and national levels during those yrs.  She has shown pigs and lambs and learned life skills in the show ring and out.  Alexis has also been active in Drug Free All Stars, Diamond Dolls and Kyssed Club.  She works in her father’s business during the fall and works at a snow cone stand in the summer.  All four years of high school she has been taking concurrent classes at Angelina Jr.College.  Wow…what has she not done should be the question.  Alexis wants to major in Speech Pathology, obtain her masters degree and be a speech therapist to work with children or in a hospital.  With what she has accomplished so far I have no doubt she can reach that goal also.  Best wishes to Alexis Ferguson.

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Face Masks

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We are presently living in some uncertain times with the Covid virus that is circulating around the world.  A week ago I was in the grocery store and a woman had a bag of over 75 masks, she had sewn, and was giving away to anyone who didn’t have one.  She offered me one and I asked her to give it to someone more vulnerable than me.  She insisted I take one and so I did.  She said she had been a quilter for over 40 years and now knew why God had told her to hang on to the scraps all these years.  I thanked her and said what a blessing she was to others during this time.

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Later that day my friend, Betty Harrison, put out a plea on Facebook asking where to find more material and supplies so she could continue making face masks.  She had run out of options and prayed for God to provide, if he wanted her to continue making them.  Betty had been making the masks and donating them to health care workers, family, friends and anyone needing a mask for protection…whether it was by their own health or a job.  It has given her a purpose while staying home and is a joy to be helping others.  I told her about my mask encounter earlier and said what a blessing both of these ladies were.  Then it clicked… I wanted to be a part of Betty’s outreach of help others.  So I gave her a Love, Action, Faith Scholarship.  After all what she is doing was an excellant example of…showing love to others, through her making mask, because of her faith…the intent and purpose of these scholarships.  Betty was thankful and said she was honored to do this in Lauren’s name.

20200417_152543My friend Betty Harrison.  May God bless you for being His hands and feet during this time.

And in the pictures above her are her skilled hands and some of the many, colorful masks she has made for local children and adults.