Grace and St James' mission to Haiti

A great success in raising funds for St. Matthew’s School but also in community action: home cooks, local businesses, parishioner-delivery and a hearty meal blessed and consumed. Truly an exercise in loving-kindness. You may wish to thank those businesses by offering them your custom.

• Hungry Ghost Bread
• Black Sheep Deli
• Savannas
• Esselon
• Johnny’s Tavern
• Atkins Market
• Inn On Boltwood
• Deerfield Inn

November 18th 1803, the coup de grâce of the French attempt to re-establish control of St. Domingue (Haiti), the final phase of the a Haitian Revolution.

and schools throughout Haiti have a holiday. At St. Matthieu:

Song

Sport

Feast

Welcome Rev. Walin Decamp

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School returned on September 6th, come see the children at work in these video clips, click on:

Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3

Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6

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The new dual purpose building completed this spring is fully in use. We’ve seen the library cabinets; now with school open for nearly a month, the cafeteria is now in use. And check out the uniforms.

In Haiti, hunger and the price of food are almost as inimical to learning as tuition fees. St Matthew’s is a shining exception thanks to the generosity of the congregations of Grace and St. James and of Food for the Poor.

provides advanced training for teachers. Some of the best come to and from St Matthew’s. They Teach and Learn. Recently completing their studies are two of the very best: