August has been another abundant month for GO Haiti. Steve and Amy Piper with their girls Emmy and Ellie came to spend a week with us. They have encouraged us as they began to expose their girls to Haiti at a very early age. The girls are now teens and have been doing foreign missions for several years. They helped in the clinic as well as helping in the office. We were so far behind in copying and entering receipts. We are now all caught up due to theirs and Kristie Runk's help.
August 7th Andy and Pat Richardson and their grandson Zane arrived. Pat is the one who has decorated all the team rooms and a couple of rooms in my house. She wanted to know if we needed new curtains this year. I told her the VQ kitchen and my office. (the curtains in the office had been there for almost 20 years plus we needed a little "staging" in the room. Really looks great and much more inviting to work in there. Andy picked out the material for the VQ and the curtains really add a lot of color. Our Haitian ladies say the curtains are "HOT". He and Zane did so many needed repairs around the compound. Hey! maybe they will come and stay longer. Many of the staff houses need a facelift!!!
The week of Aug 8th Sheryl Brumley received word that her father was going to have to have both legs amputated. Sheryl spent hours trying to find a seat on any flight out. Nothing! She ended up taking a small plane to the DR then a taxi about 30 miles to the large airport in Santo Domingo to fly to CO. Praise the Lord...He provided a way.
The Runk's left on their scheduled furlough on August 8th. With all that has happened it left Chris Brumley, David and myself as the Am. staff on property. GOD ALWAYS PROVIDES.... The Team from Vision church in South New Jersey came with 10 team members on the 10th of August. One team member just happened to be PA. A couple we met a few weeks ago here in Haiti...the wife is a nurse so as Sheryl had to leave the Lord provided help for me in the clinic. While the team was here they did a Youth Camp for 190 youth from TiTanyen for 3 days.
We "guest housed" another group for Dr. Vlad. This time 15 team members. We put them all in Staff House #3. I told them we were shorthanded and they would have to fix their own breakfast and make their sandwiches for lunch. They were fine with that. Our VQ staff fixed the supper meals for all the guests on the property...some ate at the VQ...Dr Vlad's team was served in Staff house #3.
This was a lot to cram into a week but God's grace was sufficient.
Aug 22nd...Gene Self along with 2 friends arrived in Haiti. Gene has been here several times but the other two ...it is their first time in Haiti. Randy Levens is an oil well driller. HEY>>>that's similar to water well drilling. He and Curt King are starting today on a new well for GO. This rotary rig can go much deeper and quicker than ours. The guys also started painting on our Afternoon school yesterday.
Each year we treat the TiTanyen Youth to a day out on the GO property...to play, sing, do skits...whatever. Today is that day. We will feed them lunch....all 150 of them
Sheryl is returning to Haiti today. Her father is doing as well as can be expected.
