Feburary is always the month for Madi Gras in Haiti. We are blessed when young people from the Convention Baptiste d' Haiti churches come for a five day Youth Conference here on our compound. This year around 180 attended. They sang, prayed, did crafts and had many Bible teaching sessions during this time. Such a wonderful get-away time for all of them.
David and I flew out for Missionary Orientation Training in Tupelo, MS the first week of Feb. David had been having lots of back problems before we left Haiti and on Monday night of the MOT he was worse. He called his doctor in Owensboro and the doctor asked him to get back to Owensboro on Wednesday morning for an MRI. On Tuesday we completed teaching all the sessions that we would normally teach throughout the week and headed back to KY on Tuesday night. The MRI was completed and the doctor said it was a muscle problem. On the paperwork he sent to the physical therapist it said "get this man ready to fly back to Haiti by next Wednesday". With physical therapy, chiropractic treatments and deep body massages he made the flight.
We met up with three men in the Miami airport....2 from Ohio and 1 from Oregon...who were coming to our compound to do well drilling. Their well rig was brought to our compound after the earthquake. The rig had a motor problem so they shipped in a new motor and came to install it. To check it out....they did several "test" holes for communities that desperately needed water. With their rig and our cable rig both working the last couple of weeks we have drilled in 5 new water wells. PTL!
Feb 16-22...Mark Green brought a team of 3 families....His family with 3 teenage girls, another family with two boys and a girl...all teens and a mother and teen daughter. What a blessing they were to us. Such godly families. The mother was chalk artist. She shared the Gospel as she illustrated the story with chalk. WOW! Sunday night in our Bible study time we had several other missionary families join us (44 people total) as she shared. She did this again on Tuesday night Bible study at TiTanyen for about 600, for Blanquette school of about 80 students and then on Thursday morning for our Kindergarten, our Morning School and another local school for a total of over 400 students. Everyone loved these CHALK TALKS. Besides this the families painted the Blanquette church inside and out. God is good!
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Monday, February 18, 2013
January/Feb 2013
What a great start to the year of 2013.!!!! many have already come to be a part of short term missions in Haiti.
January 8th Thomas and Rachel arrived in Haiti for a two month stay. They know they are called to foreign missions but not sure of the country. Their pastor suggested they come with an established mission on their first extended stay out of the US. What a blessing these 24 yr old young people are to this mission. Thomas said he came to be a "help" and HELP he is....willing to do whatever...from painting, to laying blocks with our Haitian staff building a wall, to cutting down trees to make way for the new wall, to cooking breakfast for guest housing groups, to leading worship for our Sunday night Bible study. Rachel is an RN and works every day with Sheryl in the clinic. Great to have extra hands.
We hosted two teams from KY in January. The first team from Danville, KY. This team was headed up by Tom Christopher. Tom has been doing a John Maxwell Leadership Conf. in Haiti for the last three years. His wife and sister plus three others made up the team. They went to Cite of Reparatries Church and School and trained teachers, taught sewing to the church ladies, built a swing set and painted cartoons, etc on the outside of the school The kids as well as the adults loved the swing set.
Jan.19-26 we had a team of six from Owensboro, KY. Todd Heady, David's second cousin, headed up the team from Owensboro Christian Church as well as John Warren from Bellevue. This was a very multi-talented team. They helped us catch up on so many maintenance needs around the compound. People have no idea that when they are willing to do these tasks how much pressure they take off our long term staff. It saves hours and days of laboring.
January 8th Thomas and Rachel arrived in Haiti for a two month stay. They know they are called to foreign missions but not sure of the country. Their pastor suggested they come with an established mission on their first extended stay out of the US. What a blessing these 24 yr old young people are to this mission. Thomas said he came to be a "help" and HELP he is....willing to do whatever...from painting, to laying blocks with our Haitian staff building a wall, to cutting down trees to make way for the new wall, to cooking breakfast for guest housing groups, to leading worship for our Sunday night Bible study. Rachel is an RN and works every day with Sheryl in the clinic. Great to have extra hands.
We hosted two teams from KY in January. The first team from Danville, KY. This team was headed up by Tom Christopher. Tom has been doing a John Maxwell Leadership Conf. in Haiti for the last three years. His wife and sister plus three others made up the team. They went to Cite of Reparatries Church and School and trained teachers, taught sewing to the church ladies, built a swing set and painted cartoons, etc on the outside of the school The kids as well as the adults loved the swing set.
Jan.19-26 we had a team of six from Owensboro, KY. Todd Heady, David's second cousin, headed up the team from Owensboro Christian Church as well as John Warren from Bellevue. This was a very multi-talented team. They helped us catch up on so many maintenance needs around the compound. People have no idea that when they are willing to do these tasks how much pressure they take off our long term staff. It saves hours and days of laboring.
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