Christmas Blessings from H.A.T.S. Haiti

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2024 from all at Hands Across the Sea-Haiti.

2016 Christmas at the mission

Thank you for all your encouragement, your prayers, and your financial support, during the troubled and difficult year in Haiti during 2023. You helped bring those of the HATS-Haiti Mission safely through the year.

Our school IMKH, as noted in my November newsletter, is continuing to educate our precious students. Despite all the danger and difficulty outside the school, students need an education. Luckner, our school director, is seeing that no matter what is going on outside, no matter what might threaten our area, our school needs to be educating our students and filling their stomachs daily with a hot meal. Thank you Luckner!!!! Thank you to all who sent sponsorship funds and to those who donated funds which enables our school to continue to operate.

Since Luc and I can’t be at the mission again this year with our HATS family for Christmas, I decided to add a few photos of our Christmas in the past in Haiti when we could all be together on the mission site, feeling safe, and celebrating the birth of Jesus. These photos will include Luc as a 2 1/2 month old baby.

My best gift and Luc’s 1st Christmas

Baby Luc’s 1st Christmas.

Christmas 2018 Everyone was thrilled to receive a stocking and one gift.

Christmas dinner 2018

Enjoying a big piece of cake after Christmas Dinner

Christmas dinner was yummy

Karen’s Haiti Kids – Christmas 2018

Christmas in Haiti 2016

One thing all of us at the HATS mission loved to do before Christmas Day was to give students and families a Love Gift of food, one of the best gifts we could give. Our visitors to HATS mission and our own kids loved to help in the preparation and distribution of these food packages, for which the recipients were always very thankful.