June 30, 2011

Great week with the New Work Fellowship Church team. Several new people on the team and lots of " return " people. Always a joy to see familiar faces. Some of the team went on well pump repair, some worked in the clinic treating patients, others work on getting the electrical put in the new addition of the clinic. After clinic the ladies cleaned off all the shelves and medicines bottles in the pharmacy part of the clinic.....lots of cement dust with all the construction going on. Painting the addition to the clinic and the inside of one of the houses we built in TiTanyen rounded out their week. Saturday night was so special as they showed the Jesus in one of the tent areas and 43 people accepted Christ. WOW! God is good.
Years ago when we first came to TiTanyen I taught conversational English at the seminary. I had a young man named Samuel in my class. During Samuel's last year of seminary he almost died with tuberculous . He had a very tough type to treat and spent two months in the hospital and 4 months recuperating at home. God raised him up to pastor two churches in the Cap Haitian area...about 6 hours northeast of TiTanyen. God has blessed his ministry as he has stayed faithful to him. Our hearts were saddened when Samuel's wife called Thursday and said Samuel had passed away. He leaves a wife and two children and congregations that will miss him. Pray!

Tuesday June 21, 2011

The team from CO was small but accomplished LOTS. Many people think you have to have a lot of people to make a difference but the small teams do a great job too. David preached Sunday at a church in Bon Reop called Light and Peace. He has preached there many times but not since the earthquake. WOW...what a change. They have done a lot of work on their building and their congregation has doubled. PTL! It was good to see all of the "Gran Moun" at the feeding program on Monday morning. They are really enjoying our new staff member Glen Erickson. He greets and hugs them all as he hands out the food. So many old people here do not receive this kind of attention and it is so appreciated.
Today David and I left for town about 8:15am....we went to the bank, had a tire repaired on the truck and then went by the hardware store to pick up some needed items. It is a distance of about 28 miles round trip. It took us 4 hrs and 45 mins. to accomplish these simple tasks. Nothing simple here.
David and crew will head to the airport at 2:30pm to pick up a team from New Work Fellowship Church in Hopkinsville, KY. There are 8 men and 3 women on the team. Most have been here before and are a great group of people. Pray for them as they work and minister....it is HOT here.

June 16, 2011

With the container loaded on Sat. June 4th we spent the night with the Scott's....went to Christ Church Sunday morning and then headed for Tupelo. Our GO duplexes were full with new missionaries so we spent the entire week at the home of David and Shay Hall while we were teaching at MOT. (Missionary Orientation Training) We saved on gas too as their home is only about 3 miles from the GO office. (Wonderful hospitality) Each year...the first full week of Feb, June and Oct...we, along with our GO Home Office staff, train new missionaries going to the field. David and I do a lot of practical teaching as to what to expect when they arrive at their new location. This was a great group. We had five couples and one single going to 3 countries. We stand in awe of how God continues to call out people in the country's economic downturn. Our God is not broke...AMEN! During the week David was also in many Leadership Team meetings. They were taking advantage of having David face to face and not on conference calling. We returned to KY late Friday night (10th) and spent Saturday trying to pack our suitcases for the trip back.
Many of you know I (Judy) broke a bone in the side of my hand. I went back to the doctor on Monday in hopes he would tell me I could do away with the cast but that didn't happen. He x- rayed it and said it was healing but I had to wear it another 3 full weeks. (do you know how hard it is to function without your right hand?) The Lord continues to teach me patience.
We finished our packing and flew out of Nashville on Wednesday morning. It was great to return but the weather here is about the same as in the US....HOT!!!
We have a team from CO here right now and many more teams on their way this summer. Pray for strength for our entire staff.

Tuesday June 7.2011

When I say people came to help.....they came from central Indiana, Louisville and Hopkinsville, KY, Tupelo. MS, Smyrna and Franklin, TN...many of them drove 3 1/2 to 4 hrs just to come and help. It was so hot up inside the container that we were thankful we had enough people to trade out teams and let them "cool off" every so often. Dave King and his son Josh....representatives for CAM...the organization we ship through....we so patient as it took much longer to load this container. We shipped 600 sheets of metal roofing plus about 40 pieces of large shelving that will be used in our warehouses in Haiti. We had 4 stations set up where teams of people were sorting and sacking clothes, shoes, etc.
What a joy to have so many be such a part of this. Our only regret is that we didn't put out a sheet of paper for everyone to sign....so many we didn't know....so that we could thank them personally by email or card. A huge' thank you' to all of them plus those from Danville who made a couple of trips to bring clothing they had collected. We are asking the Lord to richly bless you and your efforts.

Monday June 6, 2010

Friday...David was able to gather up all the items in Owensboro and put them on a 17 ft U Haul truck. We left around noon for Nashville. I followed in our van...loaded to continue on to Tupelo for a week of MOT. After unloading at the Scott's warehouse David and Tommy went to Franklin, TN. A man had offered to give us backpacks, blankets and canvas chairs for the container we were loading on Sat. They returned with a pickup loaded way above the cab.
Saturday morning...8 am.. it was time to load the 40 ft container. We knew we had a huge number of items to load. Thinking maybe we didn't have enough help we put out an SOS on Friday night. PTL! many responded. We are not really sure how many exactly showed up.....50 or 52...and I can tell you we needed every one of them. Some came for 2 hours, some for 4 and some stayed the entire 8 hrs it took to load. We had three stations set up sorting clothes while some of the men loaded 600 sheets of 15ft metal roofing.
OOPS...need to go teach a class. More later

June 2,2010 Urgent help needed

If you aren't busy on Sat June 4th...8 am... come and help us load a container that is shipping to Haiti from Madison, TN. The address of the warehouse is Anchor Electric. ..633 Old Hickory Blvd E. Madison, TN 37115. If you are interested call us at 502-396 1392. Need lots of strong backs as we have 600 sheets of 15ft metal roofing along with shelving, clothing and misc items. Also lots of sorting of clothes. We have rented a truck for Friday to take to Madison what items we are picking up in Owensboro. Many supplies have been shipped and delivered directly to the Scott's warehouse. As we say in KY...."come on down".