21 April, 2011 Thursday

A FIRST....David has been preaching all this week at Second Baptist Church PAP. He and Pastor Kelly do this week long conference each year the week before Easter. This is always broad casted on radio and internet. They normally leave for town around 3:30pm. Yesterday....for the first time in 28 years...David had to cancel going a service due to problems in the country. David and Kelly couldn't get out of their driveways. David had made two trips into the airport yesterday morning and returned with no problems. Sheryl and Chris went to the bank and on their return realized about a block before turning into our driveway that the road was blocked. They were able to go off the road and down by our water fountain following the fence into our road. After this NOTHING passed north or south for 6 hours. The people of TiTanyen had blocked the main road north and south manifesting (demonstrating) to encourage the Cement plant to give them electricity. For about a year TiTanyen has had current for about 4 hrs a night. Since Jan. they haven't had any. This was their way of expressing their displeasure with the government. About 4 pm the "swat team" of the Haitian police showed up and started tear gasing the crowds. All afternoon there was lots of shooting. PTL! no one was injured. Lots of people were affected by the tear gas. Many were struggling with breathing and lots of sore throats and coughing.
TODAY....all is clear. Don't know what the outcome of all this manifesting will be. Please pray for all involved.

April 20, 2011 Wednesday

Today our two interns left. Ashley Johnson from IL had been here 5 weeks. She was a blessing but she is so excited to be going back home. On July 2nd she will be marrying an intern that was here in January....Jon Kling. Cody Guidry from Resurrection Church in Picayune, MS came for a two week internship. What a blessing he was to us and the Haitian people. He had such a willing spirit and would anything you asked him to do. Young people are such a vital part of our lives and ministry. April 7th a team of 13 came to work on the addition to the Burn Clinic. They were from Cornerstone Church in CA. They were working with an organization called ...Lazarian World Homes...that has a new construction system with Styrofoam block. They reinforce it with lots of rerod and pour the cylinders full of cement. They were able to get all the walls up and our guys will pour the roof. It is a blessing to meet so many new people that have a heart for Haiti and missions around the world.
Sam Massey, Ronald Houston, Chris and Kay Burgess came to "guest house" with us while working on their own project however as their project wrapped up they had time to completely wire our new warehouse. I told them David had saved that job just for them.

April 20, 2011 Wednesday

Busy month and lots of people. Fellowship team arrived and what a blessing they were. All of our houses had been painted on the outside but people were so excited to move inthey moved before we had a chance to paint the inside. The team helped the families move their furniture and set out to paint. They truly enjoyed trying to teach some of the kids to paint also. This team left on April 6th and the Richardson family arrived the same day. Andy,and Pat Richardson with their adult married children came to minister here for a week. What fun to see an entire family worked together. Andy, Robbie, Beth and Alissa worked putting roofs on three new permanent houses. Pat had purchased fabric to make new curtains and bedspreads for one of our team rooms plus Apt. #2. Linda Erickson, our newest missionary on the field, helped Pat sew every day after she finished clinic. Andy and Robbie has to rework all the curtain rods. PVC works great. So many people think they have no talents that can be used on the mission. ANY talent you have can be a blessing to the ministry.