Trip Reports from Teams that visited in 2010

March – Valentin and his team
President and Founder of Cry Cameroon Ministries [USA], Rev. Valentin Mbong and his wife, Pearlie, and their pastor(from Zion Hill Baptist Church in Newnan, GA) visited HCH in mid-March. They were a blessing to the kids in many ways – playing with them, bringing jerseys for the boys and new clothes for the girls. Rev Mbong also orchestrated some much needed administrative changes that will strengthen HCH for years to come. Zion Hill Baptist Church also made a very large financial donation to HCH that will meet many needs for months to come.

Early May – Shannon and her team
Shannon and her team (Kasey, Charlotte, Meg, Kim, Aaron and Kaytlin) used each of their unique talents to love on and care for the children and staff at HCH. While they were at the orphanage they gave the kids art lessons, taught them new outside games, worked with the nurses to improve their skills, and worked on mending school uniforms for the children. Additionally, they were able to donate clothes, toys, and hygiene items for the children as well as enough money to buy the new school uniforms needed for the beginning of school in September.

Late May– Dale and his team
Dale and his team (his wife, Marti; Alan, Mike, Meg,and Stan) had a very busy and fruitful trip while in Cameroon. They stayed at the orphanage but their emphasis was multi-pronged. Not only did they teach inductive Bible studies at BIST (the local seminary), they also conducted a mentor’s conference for district pastors, conducted a women’s conference and a pastor’s conference, preached in local churches, lead evening devotionals for the children, talked with the older girls about “women’s” issues, and showed the children the Jesus film in their native Kom language. Additionally, one member of their team, Mike, went with the primary purpose of helping to build the new kitchen – and man did he make a huge difference!

Six month missionary – Justin
Cry Cameroon Ministries [USA] had the unique privilege of having our first longer term missionary the 1st six months of the year. Justin got to Harvest Children’s Home in January and stayed until the early part of July. We’ll never know fully this side of Heaven the impact Justin had on the children and staff at HCH; but we have already begun to reap the benefits of his journey. His accomplishments are too numerous to list here, but suffice it to say that many lives have been touched with the love of Christ, the Kingdom has been expanded, and many little ones now know and understand their immeasurable worth to their Creator.