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Grandview UMC hosting benefit for orphanage in Haiti
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Ladies and gentlemen! Start your engines and head for Baden Square, 700 Gary, on Friday, Nov. 13. A chili/soup supper that evening along with an auction to benefit Bigarousse, an orphanage in Haiti, will provide you with a wonderful meal and opportunities to bid on some amazing items!
The festivities begin at 5 p.m. with a chili/soup feed offering chili (vinegar and hot sauce available), vegetable beef stew, crackers, relishes, dessert and beverage for a suggested donation of $6 per person. Southwestern College students may eat for $5 with a college ID.
The benefit auction immediately follows at 7 and features a fabulous array of items such as:
•Various large gift baskets including emergency car basket, family fun night basket, K-State, KU and SC baskets, spa basket, Walnut Valley Festival basket and many more
•Two handmade quilts
•36 x 40-inch hand crafted mirror cross picture by artist Lezli Wetzold, Dallas, Texas
•32 x 32-inch John Wayne silhouette by Haysville artist Zachary Kearns with 6-inch Avon John Wayne figurine and 2010 John Wayne calendar
•Signed and numbered 16 x 20-inch K-State Santa sketch entitled “The Fan” by Bill Walton
•Hand crafted crosses
•Gift certificates from Kobe Steak House in Wichita
•Day fishing trip with lunch at Rock Creek Ranch
•Two authentic home cooked Korean dinners for two
•Two Korean mink blankets
•Full 1 karat diamond necklace and 1/2 karat diamond ring
•Home baked pies and cake
•Many additional items by sale time.
“All Items for the auction are new and have been donated by local churches, businesses, organizations and individuals,” said Cathy Hamlin, Grandview UMC member. “These items would make spectacular Christmas gifts.”
Helping in Haiti
The entire proceeds from the benefit evening will go to support Bigarousse, an orphanage in a remote area outside of Les Cayes, Haiti. The orphanage, fondly called “The Big House,” houses and educates 60 children ranging in age from two to 14 and provides schooling for 20-30 more children who walk or ride burros in from surrounding areas.
The “Big House” was first visited by Pastor Samuel Lee and Jim West of Winfield Grandview UMC in February 2009. They found conditions appalling. Despite the fact that it is only eight miles form Les Cayes, almost no on knew of the orphanage’s existence because it is in such a remote area. The road leading to it is impassable by anything but a rugged four wheel drive vehicle, donkey or foot. There is no running water, no electricity, no modern conveniences of any kind.
The 60 children are housed in a cement block dormitory on 34 beds with three-inch pieces of foam for mattresses. They receive one meal a day consisting of black beans, rice and bread, prepared outside over an open fire or in a clay oven. Laundry is done by hand in large bowls and hung to dry on cactus or draped from ventilation holes in the dormitory walls.
The classroom for the 80 children was a cement block building which also served as the local church on Sunday morning.
Sanitation is non-existent.
After Pastor Lee and Jim West returned from their visit to the orphanage and reported the shocking existence of these children, the Grandview Church members immediately started raising funds to help them. Amazingly blessed by God, Pastor Lee, Jim West and seven additional church members were able to finance all of their own expenses for a nine-day return trip to Bigarousse. The congregation was able to raise enough funds for the mission team to finish and furnish two classrooms, provide 16 Army satchels of classroom supplies, purchase toys for the children, buy some basic textbooks, pay six months back pay to the four teachers, guarantee their salaries for this school year and deepen the well for safer drinking water.
A return trip to Bigarousse is planned for the February with future goals being:
•Continue work on three additional classrooms.
•Build a latrine and a kitchen.
•Purchase and install a battery/solar powered water purification system.
•Most importantly, to share God’s love with the delightful Haitian children!
Your support of the chili feed and auction will help make these goals possible.
If you would like more information on the benefit chili feed and auction, The Big House project, or would like to schedule a PowerPoint presentation please contact Jim Wes, (316) 651-6315 or 221-3177.
The festivities begin at 5 p.m. with a chili/soup feed offering chili (vinegar and hot sauce available), vegetable beef stew, crackers, relishes, dessert and beverage for a suggested donation of $6 per person. Southwestern College students may eat for $5 with a college ID.
The benefit auction immediately follows at 7 and features a fabulous array of items such as:
•Various large gift baskets including emergency car basket, family fun night basket, K-State, KU and SC baskets, spa basket, Walnut Valley Festival basket and many more
•Two handmade quilts
•36 x 40-inch hand crafted mirror cross picture by artist Lezli Wetzold, Dallas, Texas
•32 x 32-inch John Wayne silhouette by Haysville artist Zachary Kearns with 6-inch Avon John Wayne figurine and 2010 John Wayne calendar
•Signed and numbered 16 x 20-inch K-State Santa sketch entitled “The Fan” by Bill Walton
•Hand crafted crosses
•Gift certificates from Kobe Steak House in Wichita
•Day fishing trip with lunch at Rock Creek Ranch
•Two authentic home cooked Korean dinners for two
•Two Korean mink blankets
•Full 1 karat diamond necklace and 1/2 karat diamond ring
•Home baked pies and cake
•Many additional items by sale time.
“All Items for the auction are new and have been donated by local churches, businesses, organizations and individuals,” said Cathy Hamlin, Grandview UMC member. “These items would make spectacular Christmas gifts.”
Helping in Haiti
The entire proceeds from the benefit evening will go to support Bigarousse, an orphanage in a remote area outside of Les Cayes, Haiti. The orphanage, fondly called “The Big House,” houses and educates 60 children ranging in age from two to 14 and provides schooling for 20-30 more children who walk or ride burros in from surrounding areas.
The “Big House” was first visited by Pastor Samuel Lee and Jim West of Winfield Grandview UMC in February 2009. They found conditions appalling. Despite the fact that it is only eight miles form Les Cayes, almost no on knew of the orphanage’s existence because it is in such a remote area. The road leading to it is impassable by anything but a rugged four wheel drive vehicle, donkey or foot. There is no running water, no electricity, no modern conveniences of any kind.
The 60 children are housed in a cement block dormitory on 34 beds with three-inch pieces of foam for mattresses. They receive one meal a day consisting of black beans, rice and bread, prepared outside over an open fire or in a clay oven. Laundry is done by hand in large bowls and hung to dry on cactus or draped from ventilation holes in the dormitory walls.
The classroom for the 80 children was a cement block building which also served as the local church on Sunday morning.
Sanitation is non-existent.
After Pastor Lee and Jim West returned from their visit to the orphanage and reported the shocking existence of these children, the Grandview Church members immediately started raising funds to help them. Amazingly blessed by God, Pastor Lee, Jim West and seven additional church members were able to finance all of their own expenses for a nine-day return trip to Bigarousse. The congregation was able to raise enough funds for the mission team to finish and furnish two classrooms, provide 16 Army satchels of classroom supplies, purchase toys for the children, buy some basic textbooks, pay six months back pay to the four teachers, guarantee their salaries for this school year and deepen the well for safer drinking water.
A return trip to Bigarousse is planned for the February with future goals being:
•Continue work on three additional classrooms.
•Build a latrine and a kitchen.
•Purchase and install a battery/solar powered water purification system.
•Most importantly, to share God’s love with the delightful Haitian children!
Your support of the chili feed and auction will help make these goals possible.
If you would like more information on the benefit chili feed and auction, The Big House project, or would like to schedule a PowerPoint presentation please contact Jim Wes, (316) 651-6315 or 221-3177.
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