Sea Hope Missions

It all began with a burden. Use your skill and experience. Start a ship based ministry. Find a suitable vessel. Watch as God miraculously provided the funds to purchase it. Watch as He provided the people, funds, and material to move it thousands of miles and modify it for use. Then go as He provides opportunities, sending the Hope of the Cross to the hurting and needy.

Haiti September 2020

As we neared completion of modifications of Sea Hope in early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic started. Countries across the globe were impacted. Haiti is one of the poorest, if not the poorest, countries in the Western Hemisphere. Its food crop was devastated by a drought in 2019. The nation suffered from political instability. COVID restrictions kept people in their homes. Starvation was actually occurring. For Sea Hope’s first mission, we carried 40,000 pounds of rice to two national pastors so they could help feed their flocks and communities.

Loading the rice in Bayou La Batre, Alabama

The crew in front of the rice in Jacmel, Haiti

50 pound bags of rice flying through the air

St Vincent May 2021

On Friday, April 9th the La Soufriere volcano on St. Vincent erupted. The northern half of the island was evacuated. Overnight 15,000 people were displaced from their homes. They went to shelters in the south, including to the Baptist Bible College of the Caribbean. Several church congregations have moved into shelters and with other church families in the south. Sea Hope needed to have annual maintenance performed to allow her to operate in the Caribbean for an extended period of time. On May 12th, she sailed from Bayou la Batre, Alabama with about 55,000 pounds of food, medical/health supplies, clothes, bedding material, and Bibles/scriptural material. The pastors on the board of the Baptist Bible College of the Caribbean used this food to supply 11 churches on the island with food for their congregations and communities.

Community Bible Baptist Church's building was destroyed

St Vincent was divided into color zones. The Red Zone will be evacuated for several months.

Food and supplies from Reaching Our Caribbean and churches in southern Florida

We wrapped the food in plastic and tarps...it all stayed dry

The 11 man bunk room was filled as full as we could get it

Pastor Dexter Kirby (president of BBCC) and board member Pastor Lenius Lavia

The stevedores could unload the ship as fast as we uncovered the material

Pastor Lenius Lavia with about 1300 pounds of Bibles and other scriptural material

Pastor Kirby thanking Sea Hope for the supplies...and encouragement

Gina cleaning up from our pastor's lunch

Pastors Lawson Lavia, Dexter Kirby, Presley Daniel and Lenius Lavia and wives visiting Sea Hope

Haiti August 2021

On Saturday August 14, Sea Hope was being prepared to carry hospital beds and medical supplies to St. Vincent when a devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck southwest Haiti. Over 2,000 people were killed and entire villages and towns were reduced to rubble. The trip to St. Vincent was postponed and efforts to carry food and relief supplies to Haiti were started. We delivered about 34,000 pounds of food and material to Pastor Dieupie Cherubin of Hosanna Baptist Church in Jacmel, Haiti. He and his church prepared over 900 food kits for distribution to the affected areas.

The earthquake just destroys cement buildings

Up to 95% of buildings were destroyed in some villages

There were two 40 ft containers of cargo for St Vincent that needed to be moved into storage

Putting cargo into storage at Calvary Baptist

The students of Puerto Baptist Bible College were a tremendous blessing

Purchasing rice and beans to carry to Haiti

The 11 man bunk room becomes a storage area for cargo

Loading beans into our below decks storage area

The team from Anchor Baptist...a hard working bunch of godly men and women

The Haitian stevedores move cargo very fast

Pastor Josue Laguerre on my right and Dieupie Cherubin to my left...I really admire these men

St. Vincent September 2021

Although we loaded 55,000 pounds of material to carry to St. Vincent in May, there was a tremendous amount of bulk medical supplies that did not fit on Sea Hope. Additionally, thirty-one hospital beds were donated after we had sailed. We were also able to order about $105,000 of medicine and medical supplies to complete the load. This material arrived in Puerto Rico and was about to be loaded onto Sea Hope when the earthquake struck Haiti. Fortunately, Calvary Baptist Tabernacle in Carolina had sufficient storage space for us to put the material into while we carried food supplies to Haiti. In September, a team consisting of members of Anchor Baptist Church in Pisgah Forest and Mount Sinai Baptist Church in Pickens, SC came to help load this material on Sea Hope. Students and staff from Puerto Rican Baptist Bible College also helped. This turned out to be less than a 40,000-pound load, but by volume, it was the largest load Sea Hope had ever carried. The arrival of the material in Haiti was very timely as they were having a COVID outbreak that increased the number of patients the hospital was seeing. The beds and medical supplies were desperately needed.

Loading trucks at Calvary Baptist Tabernacle

We used 4 trucks and it still took 2 days

These students came to help at Calvary and at the marina

Venessa Blair came to help Mary with cooking, and she helped with the loading...a real blessing

We filled the area behind the pilot house

Mattresses being used to hold the boxes in place

The deck was filled as well as the bosoms locker

Fortunately the delivery trucks had short trips to make

Even Pastor Kirby helped unload...after this he helped unload the bilge...he knows more about Sea Hope now that he ever expected...

Everything we do is through a local pastor...

Haiti September 2021

When we carried the food to Haiti in August, Pastor Cherubin of Hosanna Baptist Church told us he needed building material and school supplies. He wanted to go to the affected areas to erect shelters to be used for churches, schools, and community meetings. We returned to Puerto Rico to gather the materials. Much of the school supplies had to be ordered and it took some time for it arrive in Puerto Rico. While we waited we did some needed engine maintenance, and then did the St. Vincent trip. Once we returned from St. Vincent we loaded the supplies for Haiti and took them to Jacmel. They were no longer under the state of emergency, so we had to go through all the normal bureaucracy to enter port. We started the off load about 5 pm and it took until 8:30 pm to complete. We departed then and returned to Puerto Rico. Within 36 hours, Pastor Cherubin had the material loaded onto trucks and headed to the affected areas. By Sunday, there were 2 shelters ready for churches to hold services and by the following Sunday there were 5 shelters complete. Schools were able to open, and students had supplies….

Wood was stacked wherever we could find space

We had all the wood on the weather decks

The pier in Jacmel had a few obstacles to avoid

We carried some food in addition to building material and school supplies

Within 36 hours the material was headed to the building sites

School supplies being organized to make kits

These crews worked at night to get the shelter ready for church on Sunday

Haiti Medical Mission March 2022

Bradley Edmonson is the founder and president of Medical Missions Outreach, the largest independent Baptist medical missions organization I know of. He and I started planning this trip to Haiti in October 2021. He brought a team of 12 medical clinic personnel, one photographer, and one translator. We carried a crew of 9, so 23 of 24 bunks were filled when all were on board. Sea Hope left Puerto Rico and stopped in the Dominican Republic to pick up the medical team. A day later we arrived in Jacmel, Haiti to work with Hosanna Baptist Church (Pastor Dieupie Cherubin) to conduct a four-day clinic. Over the course of the clinic, over 850 patients were seen, the Gospel was clearly presented, and over 50 professions of faith were made. In addition, we carried about 5800 pounds of rice, school supplies, and clothing to donate to Hosanna Baptist Church.

Haiti July 2022. Operation Emmanuel

During our medical clinic trip to Haiti this past February 27-March 3rd, I had the privilege to tour Emmanuel Medical Center in Cayes Jacmel. The buildings have suffered from age and earthquakes and tremors; the equipment has not been updated in decades. As I toured the facility, God just broke my heart. People everywhere get sick or injured and need a decent place to get medical help. Emmanuel has been providing the best care they can with what they have, but they really didn’t have much. God just laid it on my heart to help. Mary and I watched in amazement as God met every need to make this mission possible. In addition to the supplies for the hospital, we carried some personal items to the missionaries Kevin and Emelie Falde, supplied Johns-Romans and tracts, and supported the annual Bible Conference at Hosanna Baptist. It was one blessing after another as we watched God overcome every obstacle and hurdle thrown at us.

Joeth Strickland of Crossing All Borders was a true giant in supplying the needs of Operation Emmanuel

Mary filling up a pallet at Crossing All Borders

Buddy even does a little work now and then

The Samaritan's Purse logo says it all...

Joeth Strickland gave us all of the baby formula she had...

Emilie and Becca Falde holding the twins they took in...the mother was critically ill and there are 4 older siblings in the family

Little Bob and Chanah...she was bitten by a rat..

Levi Trask organizing the work party to load the container for shipping to Puerto Rico

Took about 3 hours to fill a 40 foot container

Off loading in Puerto Rico...was able to get a 20 foot box truck to move material from the container to the boat..

Bob Davis served with me on Spadefish and now Sea Hope...

Leonardo getting ready to fish...had a bite but broke his line

Labor and Delivery at Emmanuel...still needs updating...

Photo of first baby born in the maternity ward

We meet the twins...Little Bob likes to eat

Kevin and Emelie Falde...these are true American heroes of the faith...

Driving through a rain storm...the young man rode on the back of the truck the entire way..

Assembling the new beds...watched by Frank Olafson

Frank Olafson instructing on how to assemble and operate the beds

Pastor Shaffer preaching during the Bible Conference with Pastor Cherubin interpreting

George Kindel has been on every Sea Hope trip with us...

Frank presenting the salvation dolls to Pastor Cherubin

His wife demonstrating how to use the salvation dolls

Presenting Pastor Cherubin the Little Book tracts

The joy of receiving much needed baby clothes...

Back in Puerto del Rey...ready to carry bags to the cars...

Haiti February 2023. Operation Emmanuel II

The load of medical supplies and equipment we took in July 2022 met a lot of needs but not all of them. During the reconstruction of the hospital Kevin Falde added a maternity/women’s health wing plus a pediatric ward. Equipment was needed to fill those spaces. God provided about 25 more hospital beds and two birthing beds, plus an ultrasound machine and anesthesia machine. There also was a large amount of needed supplies. This hospital was one of the few that stayed opened all through the Fall and Winter, and the people of the area are really blessed. In addition, we took 12,500 pounds of rice to help feed the hungry.

The rice went into our bilge storage area

The rice is loaded one package at a time

Medical supplies were put into our Bosun Locker

The big room again was filled to capacity

Kevin Falde gave Joeth Strickland and Laura Reaves a tour of Emmanuel Medical Center. Joeth is responsible for most of the items Sea Hope took to the hospital.

Work was ongoing in the new pediatric wing

The rice being stacked before going onto a truck

This photo does not show it well, but the swells were pretty bad on this day

Haiti Medical Mission June 2023

For our second medical mission to Haiti, Medical Missions Outreach brought a small team of 9. This gave us room to bring more crew and we took a team of 11 with six making their first trip on Sea Hope. Tropical Storm Brett approached Puerto Rico and threatened the trip but I watched as the Lord moved that storm far to the south. We sailed and saw very little effect from the storm. We carried about 17,000 pounds of rice, beans and some other food stuff, about a 2000 pounds of medical supplies and 250 chairs for Hosanna Baptist Church. While moored, the crew did repair work on the pier while the medical team conducted their clinics. The medical team saw 815 patients (including interceding with 3 to send them to the hospital at MMO’s expense) and 70 people made salvation decisions. We also met Killick and Nehemie Aristide, native Haitians who are US citizens. They have established a new work in Les Cayes, Haiti and are doing a fantastic job. This trip demonstrated Sea Hope doing relief work, medical clinics and evangelism.

We purchased beans and rice from Goya for this trip.

Beans and rice on the pier ready to be loaded. The Lord stopped the rain for us.

Beans and rice being loaded in our bilge storage area

Chairs loaded and wrapped to carry to Hosanna Baptist Church. They have standing room only crowds. We only had 250 chairs but the need was for 500. What a blessing to be able to help...

Cooking oil, canned spaghetti, and other non-perishable foods.

Orlando Cartagena is a deacon at Bible Baptist Church in Caguas, Puerto Rico. He is 67 and said the Lord told him to get involved with Sea Hope. A Puerto Rican born and raised, he has never been on a sea voyage before. What a joy to serve with. this man.

The crew were able to add about 20 boards to fill in the most critical holes....we need at least 20 more on a future trip...

The medical team sorting through their medicines in preparation for clinic

It might be a small team but they did a mighty work. 815 patients seen in 4 days with 70 professions of faith

The MMO medical team praying before departing for a clinic.

Killick and Nehemie Aristide...like us they are grandparents who stepped out by faith to serve the Lord...

Three of the clinics were conducted in rural areas. The team reported people just came out of the woods....

A patient explaining the need to a provider through an interpreter.

Killick and Nehemie Aristide presented the gospel one on one to patients as well as holding preaching services.

Orlando was superb at crowd control and entertaining the patients

The MMO team pitched in and off loaded the chairs...

Chandler is a worship leader at his church. His wife is a nurse and they came together for this clinic...

Larry Brinker runs Redeeming The Time Ministries/The Brinker Family. As an experienced airplane pilot, he fit right in driving Sea Hope.

Sue LaFrance is a school teacher who made her first trip on Sea Hope. She was a trooper who worked with Mary in the galley, went to the clinic, and here she is driving the old fashioned way with the wheel...

We stopped to give the crew a little fun with a swim call...

Cole Burge weighed first and then would hold toddlers on the scale to get the toddler's weight. MMO called him the "baby whisperer"

MMO and the crew working together during the off load

These 3 ladies went above and beyond feeding all 20 people onboard and sending lunches to the clinic sites....

The old hands, Frank Olafson and Barney Hall, with Orlando Cartagena and Russell Scherlie, two guys making their first trip on Sea Hope...

School Supplies and Food Delivery Haiti October 2023

Pastor Dieupie Cherubin contacted me in early October asking for school supplies and food. Hosanna Baptist Christian School grew from 675 students to over 900 students as parents sent their children out of the Port au Prince area due to the gang violence. We reached out to Anchor Baptist Missions International with this request, and the Lord worked in a marvelous way to supply the need. This was the first mission Sea Hope performed from its new base of Ponce, Puerto Rico, and the response we received from local churches was amazing. Sea Hope was able to deliver about 40,000 pounds of food, school supplies, and other items to 3 different ministries. Leaving and returning to Ponce saved one day of transit time versus Puerto del Rey and meant a fuel savings of over 500 gallons.

Diapers provided by a local Ponce church

In Ponce we are able to load Sea Hope as we get the material....

Diapers and formula from Calvary Baptist Tabernacle in Carolina, PR

Pastor Jorge LaBoy and his sister Abigail LaBoy helping us load

A group of men from Aguadilla came about 1.5 hours to help us load

Pastor Cherubin and I talking while waiting for Customs and other officials to arrive

Saying good bye after a prayer of Thanksgiving by Pastor Cherubin

Off Loading in Jacmel

Off loading in Jacmel is not easy. The trucks can not come down the pier. The stevedores have to carry the material quite a ways to put on the trucks….

International Orphanages and Schools (IOS) Children’s Home Relief Mission December 2023

Shortly after we returned from our October mission to Jacmel, I was contacted by Pastor Brent Stancil. He and his wife Valerie are the directors of IOS and operate a Children’s Home in Petit Groave, Haiti. The home was nearly out of food and Pastor Stancil wanted to know if Sea Hope could carry a load of food to the home. Mary and I had a presentation at a church in the US in early November and getting a crew together between Thanksgiving and Christmas would be difficult…or so I thought. The Lord would not let me have peace until I agreed to go, and further I told Pastor Stancil to concentrate on purchasing food and whatever else the home needed, but Sea Hope would purchase formula and diapers for 12 infants at the home or in another local church. I put out an email addressing the need and watched the Lord provide abundantly above anything I expected. We ended up with a crew of 14 and a cargo of about 30,000 pounds. It was enough food, formula, and diapers for at least 6 months.

Crossing All Borders provided enough material to make 600 hygiene kits for the Children's Bible Club at Macedonia Baptist Church. Russel, Maria, and Mary are separating and organizing the items.

Picking up the main food and supply load at Sam's Club

Mary securing a tarp on some items we had to carry on deck...

On the way we drove through a rainbow...bow ends were visible from the pilothouse...God is faithful to His promises

Dr Matthew Reid was one of the crew on this trip and he treated 2 injuries to Haitian men and did a quick exam of the children at the Home.

Men waiting to tie us up...the lines go around the supports...

Valerie talking to Nehemie Aristide. Nehemie and her husband Killick have planted a church in Les Cayes

Loading the Aristide's truck with food, formula, and diapers

Mary and Buddy with Killick and Nehemie Aristide

The pantry at the Children's Home....they were truly nearly out of everything....

Some of the crew visited the Children's Home. Mark Harris and Pastor Mark Tice interacting with some of the children

The main protein when we arrived...half a box of dried fish...

Activity in the pilothouse as we leave...looking for fishing floats...

The view as we left and headed out to sea

Pastor Mark Tice went into the bilge to vent the flushing pump suction. It lost suction due to the high sea state....

The first Christmas tree for the home...donated by a family in Ponce...

Children at the home with their Christmas presents

Children at the Bible Club receiving their hygiene kits...

Jacmel Haiti Food Relief Delivery March 2024

As incredible as it may seem, the political, economic, and security situation in Haiti deteriorated even more in February. The prime minister left the country for some meetings and the gangs joined forces in an effort to take over Port au Prince. The prime minister was not allowed to return to the country and resigned. As a result of the increased gang activity, food and fuel distribution throughout the country came to a virtual standstill. We were contacted in late February by Operation Renewed Hope about conducting an emergent food relief mission to Jacmel to supply some churches and missionaries.. Another donor matched the ORH donation and we were able to carry our largest food load to date, nearly 47,000 pounds of beans, rice, and cooking oil. One church that received the food was Beraca Baptist Church. It is so far up in the mountains the food had to be carried in on pack mules.

Unloading the 22 pallets of food and oil

Goya delivers pallets of rice, beans, and oil. We have to load it box by box, package by package.....takes a lot of hands

Loading on the aft deck and covering it up

Using pack mules to get the food up the mountain

Baracka Baptist Church food distribution

Mary doing a bit of first aid on Larry Nuebecker...

The crew after our return to Ponce meal...

Haiti Food Relief Delivery for Parakaleo and IOS May 2024

During our return transit from Jacmel in March, Kevin Falde of Parakaleo contacted me about taking a substantial amount of food to churches in the mountains east of Jacmel. Valerie Stancil of IOS wanted to send some food and other items to the Children’s Home. This included backpacks for the children to take to school. I contacted Joeth Strickland of Crossing All Borders to see if she had any backpacks and baby formula. Joeth really went to work. Medical Missions Outreach helped with shipping the material from Crossing All Borders. When all was said and done, at least 13 ministries came together to deliver 55,000 pounds of food, formula, diapers and other supplies to. well over 1500 people in at least 15 churches and the Children’s Home. To God be the glory….Great things He hath done…

Nehemie Aristide rode Sea Hope back to Haiti after a short visit to the US

Russell loading a bag of sugar for the Children's Home

Passing boxes of beans to the bow bathing

Storing beans in empty bunks and then onto the deck

Pastor Javier and wife Lizza Pizarro and their children toured Sea Hope the day we loaded. They are friends with the Aristides and came to visit Nehemie and see Sea Hope

Pastor Pizarro bought some food items for us to deliver to Haiti

Cole Berg stretching his back once the load was completed

Our first time tied up outboard another vessel....there were some broken/cutoff pilings that could have damaged our wooden hull...this vessel moved there so we could off load

Passing rice down from the deck to go into the bilge area

Passing boxes of beans down into the bow berthing

Bethany Riley taping up a rice bag that was torn

Mary and Nehemie enjoying a break after a meal

Working on the arrival formalities...Nehemie interpreted for us

Off load in progress....the material went to 4 different locations

A typical dug out canoe...we gave the young man some water and a snack...

Some of the pastors and men from the churches in the mountains thanking us for helping them

Haiti Food Relief Delivery for Parakaleo and IOS June 2024

During the May delivery the 14 mountain churches served by Parakaleo Haiti received over 30,000 pounds of food and it was distributed to over 1500 people. A relief organization in Ohio donated nearly 40,000 pounds of rice meals to Parakakeo. It was sent in a 53 foot container to Ponce, and was the first container we have handled since moving here. Another donor provided funds to purchase nearly 15,000 pounds of rice and Sea Hope purchased almost 5,000 pounds of rice and beans. In total Sea Hope had well over 60,000 pounds of food and supplies for this late June delivery. This was distributed to at least 16 churches and the IOS Children’s Home. Grace Baptist Church in Les Cayes (Killick and Nehemie Aristide) used part of the food sent to them to feed over 300 children per day during their Vacation Bible School. During VBS 60 professions of faith were made and four other students received assurances of salvation.

June Mission 2024
Tanner Lewis (FL), Sue LaFrance (CT), Bobby & Shellie Bickmore (VA), Garrett & Ethan Powell (IN), Joesph Menard (NC), George Kindel (CT), Zachary Robinson (NC), Samuel Shabdue (NC) Levi Trask (NC), Buddy, Mary, Russell Scherlie (PR — June Mission 2024 Tanner Lewis (FL), Sue LaFrance (CT), Bobby & Shellie Bickmore (VA), Garrett & Ethan Powell (IN), Joesph Menard (NC), George Kindel (CT), Zachary Robinson (NC), Samuel Shabdue (NC) Levi Trask (NC), Buddy, Mary, Russell Scherlie (PR), James Shabdue (TN)

Container shipped from US arrives at SEA HOPE

Large Boxes had to be repacked in smaller ones

Thankful for crew and local churches for helping

Running out of physical space on board, we started emptying the large gaylords boxes into garbage bags that were "stuffed" within the load

Eduardo Rey, pictured here, was used of the LORD for securing SEA HOPE a docking port in Puerto Rico. We were able to deliver books for a library he supports in Haiti.

Crew member Sue LaFrance raises our Christian flag

Backing away from the pier in PR...heading to meet our brothers in Haiti

In transit to Haiti, Zachary and Tanner landed dinner. First successful catch for SEA HOPE

Rough seas made arrival tough. We broke lines as the waves snatched the ship away from the pier One was lost in the depths but retrieved by one of the crew members willing to dive for it.

With diver in the water, other crew provide a "WAY UP" and a hook to grab heavy, now wet, line

Crew jumps into action to start the off-load

Many hands make light work... or "lighter" Labor of Love

Twins sharing a ride SH delivered ride on toys for adoptive missionary parents, Kevin & Emelie Falde

They came for the food, but many received something much greater, GOD's WORD !

60 Professions of Faith in Christ ,
4 Salvation Assurances - PRAISE THE LORD — 60 Professions of Faith in Christ , 4 Salvation Assurances - PRAISE THE LORD

Grace Baptist Independent Church of Les Cayes - Children's Ministry

Crew member, Tanner helped "Button down the boat" with hurricane shutters once back in Puerto Rico

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Seven months after the last major shipment of food to the IOS Children’s Home in May 2025, supplies there were getting very low. We started planning a trip to carry them food, clothing, and other supplies. Parakaleo asked if they could also send food to their churches as well as material to work on the children’s home and medical clinic they are constructing. We also obtained food and supplies for Grace Baptist Church in Les Cayes. Altogether, we had about 50,000 pounds loaded onto Sea Hope. One thing we cannot control is the weather. There were not any storms in the area but we had very high winds, and thus high seas. Physically, this was one of the most challenging trips we have conducted as the high winds and waves were with us for the entire trip.

Barney Hall and George Kindel have been part of Sea Hope from the beginning. They were room mates at the Naval Academy from 1968-1972.

Unloading rice and beans from the Goya truck...

The distribution center next to us provides a fork lift to assist in the unloading....

Loading our bilge storage area....we carry between 10-12,000 pounds in the bilge to help with our stability

The Ponce Port Authority collected clothes to donate to Haiti...

Staging material on the aft deck during the off load

Russell repairing an electrical connection while in port Haiti

The staff and children at the IOS Children's Home

Dr Reid conducted a medical clinic at the Children's Home

Josh Satch is an ICU nurse from Mississippi. He made his first trip on Sea Hope to work with Dr Reid at the medical clinic

Children waiting to be seen at the clinic

The ship inboard of us in Haiti had 50 pound bags of flour and 110 pound bags of animal feed. The workers carry those on their heads to unload.

Pastor Killick Aristide had a full load to take to Les Cayes. He used the beans and rice to feed during an evangelistic conference....23 people accepted Christ as their saviou

Some of the food Parakaleo sent to their churches went by pack mule up the mountain

A young girl carrying a 24 pound box of beans home

The woman is carrying a 30 pound package of rice home

All of these clothes and purses were donated.

The young boys have some enriched powdered milk.

This little fella will get some nutrition...

This crew worked hard to deliver some much needed supplies and went through some rough seas to do it. Crew was from Florida, Missippi, Ohio, Connecticut, Virgina and Puerto Rico

Food Relief Delivery to Jacmel March 2025

The food security situation in Haiti continues to deteriorate due to gang activity increasing. Operation Renewed Hope asked us to carry beans and rice to Hosanna Baptist Church in Jacmel. We could not add this to our previous load going to the IOS Children’s Home and Parakaleo. This trip occurred 2 weeks after the previous one. In addition to Hosanna Baptist Church we carried some beans and rice to Beraca Baptist Church in the mountains above Jacmel, and also some medical and other supplies to a medical clinic run by Community Coalition for Haiti. At the last minute, Parakaleo called us and asked for some clothes and food for a new child they received for their Children’s Home. God’s timing is always the best…..and He provided us very calm wind and seas for this trip. We loaded on a Monday morning, left that afternoon…..off loaded on Wednesday and returned to Ponce on Friday. This was the most efficient trip we have ever done.

Our beans and rice arriving and our friends at the distrubion center using a forklift to put the material on the pier

Cole Burge waiting to pass some more rice onto the boat

Leonardo and Ethan handling the rice on the pier

Six pallets of rice went onto the aft deck....over 16,000 pounds

Doing formalities in Haiti....this really went fast

Passing a few items out of the bow berthing

Pastor Dieupie Cherubin (in blue) and his assistant Josue Laguerre