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!
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