1. My Journey
To Haiti and Beyond - Trusting God’s Timing
Susie Schuelke

2. My Life’s Timeline
• 1986-2004: Raised in Small
Town Manawa, Wisconsin
• 2004-2008: Bachelor of Social
Work Degree from UWEC
• 2008-2009: Americorps VISTA in
Eau Claire
• 2009-2010: Started Graduate
School & moved to Haiti full-time
• 2014: Back in WI… What’s next?

3. How I Landed in Haiti
• March 2009 - first mission trip
to Servants of All Ministries in
Haiti with a group of 20 from the
Edge
• January 2010 - return to SOAM
for 2-week trip with church from
Rice Lake
• April 2010 - job offer from God’s
Littlest Angels orphanage
• June 2010 - Moved to GLA and
stayed there for 3.5 years

4. Where in the world is Haiti?!

5. Haitian Scenery

6. March 2009: One week at SOAM with the Edge

7. January 2010: Two weeks at SOAM - Earthquake

8. June 2010 - December 2013: God’s Littlest Angels Orphanage

11. More Than Adoption

12. My Role At GLA

13. Trusting God’s Timing
• “Decision Making Crisis” Time
• Bachelors Degree
• Grad school or not
• Moving to Haiti
• Move Back to States
• Yesterday
• Go to the Lord in Prayer and the Word
• Seek Counsel from trusted advisors
• TRUST & BE PATIENT - God is Faithful

14. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace

15. Thank You for inviting me share
my life & experiences with you!