All Saints Anglican Church in Peachtree City recently hosted two special visitors from Haiti — Pere Jean Monique Bruno and his wife, Madam Marise Bruno. This followed All Saints’ three-week campaign of raising funds for the clinic in Terrier Rouge, Haiti.
The Brunos were the missionary story at Braelinn Elementary’s Good News Club. Before Pere Bruno spoke to the children, they serenaded him with a Creole song they had learned.
Later in the evening, a dinner was held at the Log House with a feast of Chick-fil-A chicken, plus dishes prepared by parishioners.
“It was truly a grace-filled evening at the Log House — perfect weather and a splendid sunset,” a spokesperson said. “The decorations of quilts and Mason jars filled with forsythia and candles treated the Brunos to a slice of Americana they have never before experienced.”
Bruno is the founder of Bethlehem Ministry in northern Haiti. This ministry began more than 25 years ago.
In 2001 the ministry constructed a one-story school for 30 pre-school students. Another grade has been added each year as the school became a two-story building, and now a three-story structure serving 703 students, pre-k through ninth grade.
Ground has recently been broken and a foundation laid for the construction of a high school. On the grounds a medical clinic, which the ministry built and operates, dispenses a high degree of professional care to the children at the school as well as children and adults from the surrounding area, with 6,216 patients served in 2011.
In this remote area of Haiti the school and clinic are powered with solar energy and has running water and indoor toilets. Some members of the board of directors consider the school, clinic, plus some amazing farming and environmental projects as the “eighth wonder of the world.”
Following the dinner, Bruno spoke to the gathering of adults and children, explaining the origins of Bethlehem Ministry in Haiti and bringing them up-to-date with what is currently happening at St. Barthelemy’s School and the Clinique in Terrier Rouge.
Kent McVay playing “Amazing Grace” on the bagpipes concluded the evening.
