Life is a vapor. Don't spend yours on the sidelines.

 

God continues to increase the impact and effectiveness of Vapor’s three operating centers in Africa. While we praise Him for what is happening across the Atlantic, we are also full of anticipation about what is to come in our backyard, as we establish our first center in Haiti.

 

Vapor field representatives Christian and Celine Nkulikiye have helped us secure 12.7 acres in a sub-community of Ouanaminthe, called Dilaire. Our operations department is actively staging the physical build out of this center, as the Nkulikiyes are actively investing in the least and lost of this city. Over the next twelve months, under God’s care, they will be sculpting the pillars upon which the success of Vapor’s first Haitian center will depend.

 

Life-on-Life Discipleship: Christian and Celine are meeting with locals three times a week and are participating in area soccer tournaments, in which they take the opportunity to share the gospel with both adults and youth. They’ve also started devotions with boys and girls from a nearby orphanage that Vapor is partnering with.

 

Poverty Alleviation: The Nkulikiyes have been able to show Christ’s compassion and assist locals in physical need through our humanitarian aid allotment. A host of street boys are finding their hunger pains satisfied through the Nkulikiyes’ kitchen, and struggling mothers are also obtaining assistance on a case-by-case basis. Our poverty alleviating efforts will only increase and become more focused as the Vapor center takes shape.

 

Local Faith Communities: Christian and Celine have been visiting churches in the area and identifying young men and women they hope to train and develop into future Vapor staff.

 

Sustainable Operations: Several potential micro-business opportunities have been identified and will be further explored throughout the year. Each Vapor center is designed to ultimately become financially independent, indigenously led and self-perpetuating.

 

Sports Utilization: Christian recently relayed the following story: “This man came to me three weeks ago and told me, ‘May God bless your family. Since you came, we are seeing a change in terms of soccer development in our area. Everybody in town is talking good about you. They say the "African" is doing a good job...’ The man went on to say that people are so happy with our involvement in the tournaments and the gifts that we presented them like balls, medals, etc. I just told him that we haven't even started our work and he told me that what he is seeing is already very good from his side.” Like clockwork, every morning and afternoon, young men knock on the Nkulikiyes’ gate to borrow soccer balls so they can practice. They always bring the ball back with a smile. The locals are crazy about soccer in this region.

 

Please stay tuned, as we are still far from having an open and fully operating Vapor center in Haiti. Your prayers and support are essential and truly make a difference as we seek to establish 40 centers, in 40 third-world environments, by 2017.