As Hurricane Matthew approaches

Please pray for Haiti, D.R., Cuba, Jamaica, Turks & Caicos, and The Bahamas as Hurricane Matthew approaches. As of the current weather report, the waves are expected to hit the southern shores of Haiti with 30 foot waves and 36 inches of rain. They are not prepared structurally or infra-structurally for this kind of destruction, as most of your know.
I am now in Florida with my mom, arriving before Matthew was even on the radar or named, to celebrate our birthdays together and then my planned travel to Ohio, Colorado and wherever God calls me to find sponsors for some of our Haitian college-eligible students. Now I am unable to go back to Haiti, even though that's where I want to be right now.
Please keep our Univers family in your prayers, as they minister to the families of Ouanaminthe in the coming days.
Praying with you,
Marylee
Psalms 46:1-2

Important News to Yahoo.com and Yahoo.fr and all other Yahoo country email users

Yahoo just announced that a hacker accessed data on 500 million Yahoo user accounts in 2014. Read the announcement from Yahoo here. The data includes account holder names, email addresses, encrypted passwords, dates of birth, telephone numbers and, in some cases, security questions and answers.

Based on the data exposed, we suggest the following for Yahoo account holders:

• Know that you may be prompted by Yahoo to change your password when you try to login to your account. We recommend that you change your Yahoo account password even if Yahoo doesn't prompt you to do so.
• Choose new security questions and answers for your Yahoo account and any other accounts on which you used the same or similar questions/answers.
• Consider using Yahoo Account Key instead of a password. Click Set Up Yahoo Account Key to Stop Using Passwords for details.
• If your Yahoo account included a backup email address and you used the same password on it as you did your Yahoo account, then change the password for the backup email account as well and use a different password.
• Be aware that scammers can use this type of data to "phish" for more data. See the Investigator Tips from this month's IDShield member newsletter for more on these types of scams: Investigator Tips: Beware of "-ishing".
• Click here to see the text of the email that Yahoo is sending to users.
• Be wary if you get odd email messages from a friend with a Yahoo email account as it might be that their account was taken over by a scammer.
• Be wary of email even if it looks legitimate. Scammers can copy logos and mask the sender's address to appear to be from a trusted person or business. Your spam filter may not catch every fraudulent email sent to your address.
• Think about what you are asked for before providing your sensitive personal information when responding to an email or clicking on a link in an email. 
• Yahoo is not going to call you. Understand that caller id can be masked to appear to be a call from someone or some business familiar to you.

Jamescy is heading to college!

I just received word from New Life Technical School of Cap-Haitian,
Haiti (http://www.newlifetechnicalschool.com/) that Jamescy, my Univers "God-son", has been accepted and will depart Ouanaminthe for Cap-Haitien next week! Jamescy is a 2016 graduate from Institution Univers. He will study Agriculture Technology, to graduate in two years as a Agriculture Technician.
If you want to donate towards Jamescy's education, please let me know!
Please be praying for Jamescy as this will be only his third time going to Cap-Haitien in his life!

The all staff meeting to begin the 2016-17 school year

This past Friday we had an all staff - administrators, teachers, kitchen, maintenance...everyone - meeting to kick off the school year.
New staff was introduced, teachers and staff were encouraged, the school and students were prayed over...we are ready and excited for the new year! All Praise to our Great God to serve these students!

Here is the staff in prayer:

An Update on my fund-raising administrator - Cross Reference the "Partners" tab on this blog

So that I may work with the Univers students in Haiti, I must raise all my own funding. I appreciate your consideration and commitment to partner with me in this work. You are an important part of changing students’ lives, families’ lives, a country's life! Thank you; words cannot express how thankful I am for you to be in my life. To God be the Glory!  

Revised September 4, 2016 - Effective IMMEDIATELY there has been a change on how to donate to my fundraising support so that I may continue to serve the students at Institution Univers. 

I am very grateful to “Community of the Holy Spirit Church” in Willoughby, Ohio (www.chswilloughby.com) to “adopt me” by wanting to partner with me for my funding to go through them, hence providing you with a tax deduction. I am so grateful to them, as they are providing this “service” as a ministry and will not pass on administrative fees to me, that I had experienced in past service relationships. This is a great relief for me, not to have to raise funds to pay fees! Thank you CHS!

Effective Immediately, you are able to support me by following these instructions.

You may donate either online or by regular mail.

Online by Credit Card or bank account withdrawal:

www.chswilloughby.com

On the home page, click on "Donate".

You will need to indicate "Haiti Missions ML" and then have a choice to donate one-time or make it recurring.

By Mail:

Make the check payable to "Community of the Holy Spirit Church", or "CHS Church" (either way to write it is fine!). On the memo line write: "Haiti Missions ML" and send the check to Community of the Holy Spirit Church, OR CHS Church 

36600 Stevens Blvd

Willoughby, OH 44060

1.440.946.8636 - Vicki Fisher, Administration

You will receive a tax receipt at the end of each tax year.

THANK YOU so much for your love, prayers, and support!

ALL FOR HIM,

Marylee

A New School Year - Ready to Go!

I've arrived back in Haiti and Ready to start the new school year!
Excited for the year to begin!
We have three graduated students from IU who are now Freshmen: Jennie is at Red Rocks Community College (Colorado), Cold Weene is at Rowan University (New Jersey) and Jaccine is at Lindsey Wilson College (Kentucky). All praise to our Great God for working out so many details, and sending loving, generous people into our path so these gals can earn a college degree.

I am working with ten students over the next year to get them to college. The two Philo (Grade 13) students who we are raising funding for, to attend college are Rose - Mica (Ohio) and Willens (Kentucky). The other eight have already graduated and we have partial funding so far for all of them.

Florvilson returns to Univers in two weeks with degrees in Finance and Economics. He will be trained to be the Haiti liaison for newly developed "Univers Student Sponsorship Program"! Welcome Home, Flo!

Here's some photos from this summer. Wonderful memories!

The moment Jaccine found out she was going to Lindsey Wilson College:

Marie-Claire tubing for the first time in her life:

 Marie-Claire enjoying Sushi at my favorite little sushi restaurant in Akron "Sushi Katsu". She came to Ohio for the Annual COCINA Board meeting:

Back in Haiti!

I'm back in Haiti and busy working on the English Top Scholars Visas, and the two college students Visas who will attend college in the US this Fall. Cold Weene will attend Rowan University in New Jersey and Jennie will attend Red Rocks Community College in Colorado! We are so excited for them. Here's photos of the students receiving the GOOD news!

Jennie:

Cold Weene:

In the meantime, we are very actively trying to get Jaccine placed to attend college in Kentucky. Please read the following, and if you are so led to participate in this MATCHING PROGRAM we have been blessed with, please send your donation to: COCINA, P.O. Box 12695, Columbus, OH  43212 and attach a note to the check: "FOR JACCINE JEADOR - LINDSEY WILSON COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP". Thank you!

Lindsey Wilson College Opportunity:

We currently have two Univers graduates studying at Lindsey Wilson College. www.lindsey.edu

Evelyne Cherenfant is a Junior studying Business Administration-Human Resources and Fritz Ludens is a Sophomore studying Mathematics with an emphasis in Computer Science.

Lindsey Wilson (LWC) offered another FULL TUITION scholarship this past year for a third student and another scholarship again this year for a fourth student.

The first year a student is at LWC, over and above the tuition scholarship,  expenses are approximately $16,000 for room and board, books, fees, living expenses, U.S. Visa expenses, and travel. Year two through four is approximately $13,000 each year.

We have a base donation of $4,000 thus far. We have a generous offer from this donor to match others who donate for the first year with no cap. For example, if someone commits to $1,000, he will match $1,000. 

We would like to see Jaccine Jeador be the student to fill this next scholarship opportunity. If you are interested in participating to change this precious young woman and her family's life, and ultimately change her nation through education please contact me immediately. We are under the timeline to raise the remaining funding needed and secure her U.S. Visa. 

Here's Jaccine's biography:

I’m JEADOR Jaccine. I come from Haiti; I live in Ouanaminthe. I will be eighteen years old on October 26th, 2014. I’m at Univers’ school in the 13th grade. I have four siblings. I live with my mom. My mom did business, but now she's not doing anything for a living because she was very sick and the doctors had recommended not doing anything such as working. My father is doing a little job; he's working as security in a bank. I love God that's why I really like to go to the church and pray to Him. I like to read; I also like to take a little time to meditate. My favorite subjects are biology and chemistry and I always do my best in those subjects. I really love school because it can make possible all my beautiful plans. I like to lead, to help people and be the best that I can. I can teach them with my advices or other things I have learned.

I would like to study medicine and ultimately become a doctor (Surgeon, Gynecologist). I want to go in college this year in United States to learn new things to take my education back in my country and serve it with all the things that I will learn because my country really need people to do this. Sometimes in my country you cannot learn the profession that you like. The reason why is because sometimes your parents don't have enough possibilities to help you with that. That's why I always think about different choices for my university studies. I also like Nursing in particular and Health care Administration. I am a big dreamer. I already know without school I won't realize my dreams, I always take seriously my school interest and activities. I always want to learn more and more to increase my knowledge because that can help me to achieve my greats goals, which are become a doctor to participate in serving my country or all over in the world and finally for having a good future in my dear Lord Jesus' name.

 Jaccine, on the right, with her classmates, taking a break from translating for a mission team: