and i'm more than happy to come into your home today and to share with you the in like myth of god's everlasting word i believe that's where the god will live for ever i believe that god has something special for you today so call your neighbor call your momma call your daddy call your friends and let them know great things in the earth and i'm so glad that he allowed me to be a part of the great work he's doing all over the world today a special g and we're so happy to have dr irvin dr welcome to how in this outreach ministry hello reverend wonderful to be here we thank god for achievement award two thousand and eighteen and he was nominated by certain people who have recognized his leadership in the committee decided to they asked me to approach him and let him know that he had been nominated to receive this award this award is given to  other leaders in the community and an ordinary people we have queen of the platform that we have been operating in functioning for over forty years and now this platform is designed to reach out to not only the piss very community the nation but also around the where old and today we honoring and recognizing the works of two gentlemen who are doing a terrific community service in the island nation of haiti and so we are so excited about that because they deserve that nation that group of people deserve to be recognized who are doing positive things in the community in the church and family and in their businesses and so we so we're very very happy to do this  to give them the black history achievement award and so today we have an opportunity to observe a video presentation we have an opportunity to talk to dr diver we have an opportunity to observe photographs of the great work that the doctor is doing around the world and so i want you to just preparing your heart to receive dr diver but before that time again these gentlemen are going to be able this is a good time to bring their pictures up because their pictures reflect when i give you the opportunity to see them and also we have a video presentation later that you will be able to hear from them in a very very special way so again we appreciate the work and the labor that they're doing and again we're so jewish diction we present to you these awards for a time such as this again we thank you for receiving it and accepting it and we pray that in your life there will be other things that you will want to achieve and we believe that god will help you god bless you my brothers well d is just one particular area of country that he has served but he also has been to several the first question i want to ask my brother appreciate your skills and your strategy for making things happen and bringing hope positivity around the where absolutely i want you to just give us some more insight on the direction i'm sure so i have to first of all say was it was really wonderful to to hear from yourself in your church in to receive this honor from your organization and what made it all the more special for me is the fact that you chose to represent and honored two young men who had come to know because of some of the work that we're doing in haiti and i want to talk a little bit about them i first went to haiti in two thousand and when i was there on mission work we'll talk first of a bit about dr mr jenner pierre but when i first went to haiti in two thousand and eight and met jimmy he was a young man who served as a translator on a mission teen so as we went into the mountains in the rural communities of of haiti an area right outside of port au prince jimmy would go with us and he really opened the doors to happen and some have conversations so that we could better diagnose people  talk to them about the the conditions they were experiencing to give them better health care we also went to schools to do some teaching and training with students and teachers and general peer also served as a translator in those efforts so he was just a tremendous tremendous asset but what really stood out for me was the fact that as much as i was interested in him he was also interested in the work that we were doing and so we developed a friendship and the more i came to and the work he was doing i found it really quite amazing that he was really doing so much with very few resources he was a young man who grew up in a family that was very impoverished his older brother had a chance receive a scholarship to school he was not able to complete a scholarship so what they did they offered it to joining with the scholarship jenny was able to learn english he talked often of the nights that he stayed up he was asleep he said he was the poor student in the class so he told often how he stayed up late at night to master the language and from when i first met him and engage with him you could never tell that  a poor student in the class he has his mastery and fluency in english language was wonderful but he felt that he had no choice because he started learning english would really open up the doors of auburn avenue to opportunity to him to find jobs that would take of his family so he thought he had no choice but to become fluent because there were few other opportunities in hating so with that he understood the importance of the language has been the sort of gateway to doing more and providing more so jenny created his own school called a successful institute she says yes an incredible right and so he and his wife they run the school in addition to working as translators in addition to time he talks about how he cannot turn anyone away so he really works but the pants and students who are not able to pay for tuition to provide them with scholarships and opportunities to stay enroll because he understands the need in his community to help people and right now mr ph is in the process of rebuilding the successful interest institute because some of the storms and other weather add to that even haiti he had to change  locations so where he is now he's sort of rebuilding the school to keep it operating he's adding some rooms he's building curriculum and whenever we have a chance to go there he invited us into conversation with the students to provide lessons in american history to talk about cross cultural development cross cultural connections so we've gone and we've taught poetry and we've taught writing in the kids are very welcoming they're very hungry and thirsty to get this knowledge and to have this image language because they do understand that with those languages it presents them again with so many more opportunities to haiti to earn a living and the amazing thing is then not only do so many of the young people in haiti speak english but they also speak italian in german and many other languages because they have to and here's a here's a quick story about how that became eviden me we were leaving the country one day we were going back to the airport and of course one of the tremendous challenges in haiti is the challenge of impoverishment so as we are arriving back to the airport was stuck in traffic and a young girl comes up to the van and she begins to speak to us and we can't respond because we don't know the language in which she's speaking so she keeps speaking and eventually she comes to english and we come to find out that she's begging and what is going on and jenny tells us that many of the children have to learn the multiple languages because when they meet strangers they want to be able to communicate to those strangers in their languages so that they can understand them because through that understanding they may be able to get aid because anything helps them in their standards so tenured mansion by strengthening the educational structure in haiti is just that young children who speak in these multiple languages at six five years old because they're  he lives in a manhattan is a very mountainous very rural area about forty minutes outside of port au prince and one of the ways he would always challenge us he said well your teams come here and they go to the same communities one that come to my community there's no need there and so he never let us forget that and so finally we were able to get to his community which is called to tell you and we got there and it's really quite filtration systems so the people in this mountainous area have better access to clean water because when they don't all kinds of health complications arise when that doesn't happen you say he invented that  infiltration system and now watson is working the funders mission groups and others there are ten districts in his community he wants to bring a water through attrition system to each district in his community so he is an incredible visionary hardworking young man and just to be able to share with him into anything at all is just tremendous yet but he also has to change the culture because because the mountain community has for so long learned to get water from certain places he's having to retrain them to come to the water filtration systems right because number one there is a small payment that they have to that they have to charge to  families and to your children absolutely well that's that's amazing work and we're so happy to be able to recognize them and honored them and we're so happy that someone thought to recommend them to us so we really appreciate what they're doing then and we think that  you a part of that bringing for that type of recognition and observing those talents it's just amazing to me how these young kids are more talk about the reason that sort of drew me to haiti and i think it's part of the video we talk about your work a little but we don't have footage where we actually get a chance to  it was an all black community and i grew up there with my mother jean and my father earl and i had five brothers and sisters in our neighborhood and it was a very caring neighborhood but if you stood on the outside and looked a given court and most of the city statistics were paying as is being poor and struggling right that was looking from the outside again those people did not know once they never touched us never spoke to us rarely wanted to communicate with us so they couldn't really know what was going on inside of the community but once you came in to get up in court what we found there were wonderful friendships my parents had terrific friends who cared for us like their families and this is barry was a neighbor who lived next door she had ten children of her own her oldest children were like an aunt and uncles when my mother and father had to work it was never a problem for mrs berry to take care of us and to feed us dinner until my parents got home this is just one example of the kind of sharing and caring that went on to get up in court that they hear on the news or unfortunately in the vulgar descriptions that our president used to describe the country but that is not the haiti that i know and care about and i think too often we see haiti from an outsider's perspective we judge it only in the most narrow turned right but it's not the haiti that i know so to come into haiti reminds me so much of the gilpin c community that i grew up that it is a place of extreme resilience wonderful relationships and many people who have bonded together to help each other and i think that's what draws me so close to haiti is that it is so familiar to our world in a space where i grew up so one of the reasons i'm also connected to haiti is through the charity f l m or functional literacy ministry of hating that is how i first got to haiti the director of f l e m invited me to travel on a medical mission with their group about ten years ago it changed my life i begin to decide that if i could do medical work medical mission work i could also use my storytelling skills and i communication skills to create what i would call storytelling missions to the story telling missions i've been able to take writers photographers sociologists researchers young people young journalists to haiti we go because we want to know the haitian people we go to listen to them we go to tell their stories and we come back and bring their stories to share that's part of what happened with our work with the pittsburgh tour we develop a series where we would go over to haiti in bring back all these wonderful stories to talk about people in haiti to talk about their arts to talk about their culture you know to talk about their historical figures such as tucson overture henri christophe write these are people who push for freedom and i just think that their stories of liberation and septa terminations are empowering but beyond history there are people today who continue this work these people are on the ground close to the ground doing this work to make a difference and april we thank you for the things that you do if we want to know what's what is the feature for doctor so i'll work in haiti continues and in a couple of ways first my first trip to haiti was on sort of a medical education mission but i am not a doctor and so i begin to use that concept of mission work and we find stories of just common everyday ordinary people people such as jimmy and watson and we bring those stories back to america so that americans can understand more fully who the board and we continue our medical mission we continue our education assuming we have a clinic we have a school runs from grades one through twelve we now have a technical academy where we teaching kids plumbing that's amazing and is really amazing there are other countries that you have the opportunity to serve yes yes i traveled to africa twelve bring their stories back so that people can be educated more fully formed a more fully on the veterans that local people are making in their communities i think so often we think that change has to come from the top and that you have to be a celebrity and i think that you do not i think that men and women who are on the ground who are ordinary men and women who care about their communities who love their brothers and sisters are there doing tremendous changes in our local heroes and those are the stories we want to find and those are the stories we want to share and whatever i go on the world that's the mission of what i wanted to bring back as a writer and a storyteller again we thank you so much one question please with what you're doing and i pray that you continue to do the work that you're doing eighty and all over the world and for that we want to have a moment of prayer and we're going to be coming off the work the world is in trouble and many of you have answers and this would be a great time for you to participate let us balla father god we thank you for this opportunity that you have given us to share your mission and your perp is full of the country of haiti and for others around the world we thank you for the life of d we pray that you will look on those who are participating to make this event to show happens we we pray that you would give them vision and inspiration for dynasty kingdom the