Category: School Construction

Primary School: The second floor is poured, the walls are up, and one staircase is poured!  Currently, there is a crew working on the next stage for finishing the walls.  (It’s called krepisaj in Creole, but I can never remember the English term.)   Pouring major cement slabs is always quite an event.  Catch a bit…

  This week, the construction on the primary school building has been in full swing.  We are so thrilled and thankful to see this dream becoming a reality.  Lemuel’s co-founder, Ginger Muchmore, was there at the beginning, when Lemuel’s first school started under a tree.  Below, she shares her perspective looking back–a testimony to God’s…

  The past couple weeks have been very busy, but fun!  We welcomed many visitors–both old friends and new.  Samuel and Bonita returned to Haiti for a visit with their son, Joshua, and two friends from Germany: Gerhart and Vincent.  Two of our Jack-of-all-Trade’s came too: Bonita’s dad Bryon (the Scrap Master, welder, and tool…

  As the new school year fast approaches, we have received a gift to continue construction on the desperately-needed kindergarten building. We are so excited and thankful to move forward with this project!  

  If you want an adorable picture, just collect the first graders together and tell them they can use their buckets as drums! Today, the school had a work day.  All of the professors and the students came together to collect gravel and to fill the foundation of the new kindergarten building with dirt and…

  The kids have been on vacation for part of this week, as all schools are closed for Carnival.  On Friday–while the primary grades finished their monthly exams–the kindergarten had a fun day of glitter, crowns, masks, and even a parade around the Lemuel grounds!

As many of you know, our school building has been a construction project in progress since 2011.  Each year, as we are able, we try to take a step forward in the process. The summer is the best time to work on the school building, because there are no classes in session.  This July, we received the…