Saturday May 22 the team started painting the new permanant housing on the church property. The people were so excited. Lots of kids and of course everyone wanting to help. Sunday David preached at TiTanyen. Since church starts early...now 7am...they have resumed having Sunday School 6am to 7am...and we finish by 10:30 we decided to tour PAP with the team before eating lunch. It was good to see that some of the rubble had been cleaned up in the last few weeks. The filming crew took lots of pictures and video. Our entire staff and the team enjoyed Bible study Sunday night along with sandwiches and popcorn.
Monday was a busy day. The team had devotion and prayer time with all our Haitian male staff to start the day off. Then the team and film crew helped pass out food to the elderly and visited the Burn Clinic. We were able to spend about an hour at the Kindergarten and play with the kids during their recreation time. Time for lunch and then to the Afternoon School. Another day for painting houses too. Visited the Morning School. Everyone is glad to be back in school.
I took the film crew to visit some of the homes of our Haitian staff. We are repairing and in some cases completely rebuilding their homes damaged by the earthquake. We were able to hear some testimonies of how blessed they were that people from the US cared enough to send funds to rebuild for them. One of the ladies has worked for us for 13 years as a teacher's aid in the Kindergarten. We had to completely rebuild her home. She just couldn't stop smiling and as we started to leave she asked us to pray and dedicate her new home to the Lord. PTL!
The team painted four homes and had the privilege of dedicating one of them in memory of one of the team members business partner who passed away about two months ago.
JOY!!!!! The Lord has allowed us to experience so many things on the mission field but we had a first with this team from Louisville. One of the team members...Travis Green...had brought a beautiful diamond ring to Haiti with him. He had decided to propose to his girlfriend ...who was also on the team...in Haiti. Just to make it special David asked the pilot of Samaritan's Purse helicopter if he could possibly take them up and allow Travis to propose in flight. The pilot said he had a run to make so when he was ready to go he would take them up for a quick outing. David Jr told them they had been selected for the flight because they were "servants of the day". Travis's Mom, Dad and brother were all on the team so it was a real surprise for everyone as the helicopter landed and they announced their engagement. God is so good!!!!!!!!!!
Wed. back to the US. So hard for me to leave. It was so good to be home for a few days.
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