Tuesday Aug 24,2010

The team is painting the new permanent homes. Great to have so many hands. Some of the guys from MS decided to put the roof on one of the new homes. The others are painting them inside and out. The mayor of TiTanyen was here to visit me today and he was sharing how great it was for so many families to be able to move into the beautiful homes. We just purchased 12 more loads of material...sand/gravel..for the new homes. The driver just called to say he is delivering more right now and needs me to sign the receipt. Pray all of you have a good day in the Lord.

Monday Aug 23, 2010

Friday and Saturday were clean up days for all the destruction that happened with the high winds on Thursday evening. It was great to see GO staff, World Race team and Samaritan's Purse staff all come together to help Friend Ships pick up, move and store all tents and items that were under the "circus tent" that blew away. They were able to salvage the big tent. They took it apart, folded it and stored it on pallets until the boat arrives to take it back to the US for repair.
Saturday afternoon a team of 10 arrived from the Tupelo/Ponotoc, MS area. What a great group. They represent 4 churches. The pastor of Woodland Baptist preached in David's place at TiTanyen on Sunday. He was so funny. He told them he had never had the opportunity to speak to such a large congregation....over 1,000. Sunday afternoon we took them for a tour of PAP to show them area where the earthquake hit the hardest. Later Sunday afternoon we went to a village about 6 miles north of our compound. They gave out some soccer balls, did balloon animals and gave out sacks of candy. What a great area to do this....small and didn't get mobbed. As we were leaving the lady we went to see invited us into her home and insisted we stay for something to drink. I told her we had to be back for Bible Study but she told me she had already prepared something. When we all crowded into her home she served us cokes and packages of crackers. The team was humbled. Isn't God good??

Thursday Aug 19, 2010

Adventures of the Saints !!! That is the comment I heard tonight as we surveyed the damage from a storm that went through here around 7pm. The winds seemed like hurricane force. The large yellow and white tent that Friend Ships was using as their base blew away taking with it smaller tents that were set up inside, cots, food, all their cooking facilities, etc. The couple living here had just gone into a small trailer as the rain started. PTL! they were not inside the tent. The tent wrapped around some trucks of Samaritan's Purse that were parked in the field. Lots of damage. We have trees down all over the property. We've had lots of rain in the last two weeks and the ground was soft. The trees uprooted and then the wind broke off a lot of huge limbs. It really looks like a tornado hit the compound. None of our buildings sustained any damage and no one on the compound was hurt. Praise the Lord!!! A power line out in front of the property broke across the road so the entrance to the compound was blocked for a while. We have our work cut out for us for the next few days. We are blessed to have 9 World Racers still here...in fact we gained 2 more today. They will join us in the clean up.

Wednesday Aug. 18, 2010

David drove in the driveway with the new ...new to us.. utility truck with a crane on the back at 4 pm this afternoon. He had been at customs and assurance since 10 am. Nothing is ever simple or easy. Our broker had been working on papers for over a week and a half. Now we will wait on the plaques before we can start using it. This is the last of the three vehicles we shipped in. Glad to have them all here. Thanks to everyone who has been a part of blessing the mission with these much needed vehicles.
Meetings everyday. Trying to get school staff settled for the fall. We will be hiring a couple of new teachers and putting a new director in for the Morning and Afternoon Schools. We also met with Samaritan's Purse leadership to go over long term plans for their ministry in Haiti. They will be moving offices, etc to the lower part of the GO property. This will enable GO to open the Conference Center again early next year. NC Baptist Rescue 24 will also be staying here through August of 2011. It is great to see all the organizations working together.
I'm working in the Burn Clinic each day helping Susan while Sheryl is out for a few weeks. We've had several new burns this past week. We've had two toddlers come with burned hands. No one watching them close and they stuck their hands in hot pots of water. One 11 year old was carrying a pot of hot water and spilled it down the front of her. Pray that the parents will bringing these children for treatment everyday.

Monday Aug 16, 2010

The 40ft container that arrived on Friday is empty and the items are stored in our own containers. We had 9,000 more pounds of Ragu pasta in the container so today we gave some to the participants in the Elderly feeding program. They will receive a package each week along with their other food items for many weeks. They love it. We will be sharing some of this along with clothes, shoes, etc with orphanages, communities, etc.
David preached Sunday at Jim Cartright's church. There was a sweet spirit and a special anointing on the service. Eleven people prayed to receive Christ. PTL!
So many things broke down...tractors, generators, well rigs, trucks, lawnmowers, 4 wheelers....the list is never ending but David and crew continue to "peck away" at fixing each. We continue to pray for the Lord to send a mechanic.

August 15, 2010

Construction of New Permanent Homes

Retaining Walls & Franklin Graham

These videos are courtesy of Colby Gardner, a current resident of the Global Outreach Visitors Quarters. He is with the World Race. They are traveling to 11 countries in 11 months to live the life of the people and serve them with the Gospel, whatever that may look like. If you would like to see more of his videos, please visit his blog at colbygardner.theworldrace.org

Judy

Friday 13, 2010

Great week! The 7 young people from the World Race team have truly been a blessing to us. Guess we will let them stay their entire time in Haiti...Aug 28th!!!! They have been willing to do whatever....digging ditches, mixing concrete, working in the clinic, doing office work, sacking pills for clinic...the list goes on and on. Wednesday Danny Wilkerson, his son Devin and 5 other team members came and are staying with us while they are working at their mission compound about 7 miles. What a blessing to have former missionaries who are dear friends too come and be a part of our lives for a few days.
Another 40 ft container arrived today. What a blessing. We started unloading it this afternoon. Will finish tomorrow because the company will come and pick up the container on Monday. Don't have much time to unload this one.
Today David paid the customs on the third vehicle coming out of customs. Hopefully the truck will come out on Monday....God willing.
PTL! the van we shipped into Haiti that came out of customs two weeks ago ...came out with the front right fender pushed in. The passenger door wouldn't open. David and Danny just repaired it tonight so we can use this van on Sunday for the first time. HEY...everyone....we now have a van with air condition that works.

Tuesday August 10,2010

David and Pete had a good visit with a lot of missionaries in Central America. Their last stop was Costa Rica. They had a great visit with the Turner's and Faulk's. They returned to the US on Sat. Went from Memphis back to Tupelo and on Monday had a Leadership team meeting. The Gibson's drove David back to Memphis Monday afternoon late. He was supposed to fly out of there and arrive in Haiti at 4 pm today. Franklin Graham was flying into Haiti today and wanted to meet with us to discuss the future of Samaritan's Purse staying on the GO compound. David needed to arrive in Haiti this morning to be at this meeting so he changed his flight and flew into Miami last night arriving at midnight and caught the early morning flight into Haiti. PTL! for flexibility.
Franklin met and shared encouraging words with our staff and all the other ministries located on the GO property. After this we spent the next 1 1/2 riding around the property discussing the possibilities of relocating the SP ministry to the west end of the property in order for GO to be able to return to its Conference Center ministry (pastors, youth groups, etc.)
I am certainly glad to have my husband back home after his three weeks of travel.

Thursday Aug. 5,2010

David and Pete are flying out of Honduras today and into Costa Rica. They have had a great time with all the missionaries.
You never know what a day will bring. Wednesday morning I received a call from Joshua...who is the grandson of one of GO's former Board members. Joshua is a part of a group called World Race. They will be in 11 countries in 11 months. They were in the Dominican Republic for July and headed to Haiti for August. Where they were supposed to stay and minister fell through. Joshua called home, got our phone numbers to call me and ask if we had a place for them. PTL! we did and we were able to accommodate all 7 of them in their team. I think there are 6 or 7 teams like them in Haiti right now. Four ladies and three young men. AH!!!!!!! lots of hands to work. After sleeping on the floor, etc for the last month and doing their own cooking they were sure happy to have beds, good showers and a good meal. So appreciative. (one young man leaned over and whispered in my ear after supper...."this is the first time I've been full in a month.") I'm excited to see how the Lord is going to use these young people here in the coming days.

Monday Aug 2, 2010

Friday the school graduates had a celebration with a big meal and gifts for each. The Kindergarten children received dolls and cars and the older graduates received Bibles. Had a hard time finding 40 Bibles. The place where we normally purchase Bibles has been out for some time. One of our teachers went downtown from vendor to vendor finding what we needed. We didn't have our normal 3 hours graduation program. After losing so much school time the teachers decided not to waste any time on preparing the kids for a graduation program and spend that time finishing their studies.
Our broker for the two vehicles we shipped in called and said he had the rest of the paper work and the license plates so I was able to go pick them up. PTL! for a van with A/C. I know the teams will be pleased. The new dump truck will be a big help too.
David is in Honduras this week. He and Pete traveling from one area to another. Several of the missionaries were able to come into one location and have a meeting and fellowship time with each other. Later in the week they will travel to Costa Rica.