Sometimes we forget to share the "little blessings" that the Lord sends our way. Last week in all our busyness I saw a vehcile coming up the drive. I went to the gate to find out who it was and what they wanted. It was the Deputy of our zone. I opened the gate and invited them in. As I received him at the pavillion by the Conference Center I found there were four men plus the driver. They had come to make a demand (we would say request) for a couple of wells in their area. He also was very complimentary about the work being done by GO in this area. I regretfully had to explain to him that one of the rigs being used here was broke down and that our other rig's Haitian operator had been in an accident last week. Many of you know Samuel. He had a stroke and crashed his vehicle about four miles from our compound, David, Saul and Sharron went to visit him in the hospital. Today they called and said they had been able to bring him home. Sharron and Saul have gone to check on him as I write this blog. Last week David said he was unable to speak and could only look straight ahead. He did recognize him. Today he is speaking a few words. Please pray for his quick and full recovery. * now for the little blessing. A young man with the Deputy said to me as they were leaving...."you don't recognize me do you? I had to say, "no, I don't." He proceeded to tell me that when he was a little boy we fed him and gave him toys. WOW! he was in our feeding program in the early to mid 90's. He remembers that and the sack of toys at Christmas. He wanted to thank us and tell me that he is now married with four children and serving the Lord. Sometimes the Lord allows us to see the fruit of our labors here on earth.
Monday, February 24, 2014
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Feb. 15, 2014
New church plant:
We are so excited about the new church plant near Saut d'Eau. The area is called Grand Savann. In the last couple of years the mission teams from TiTanyen Church, under the direction of Pastor Kelly, have been sharing the Gospel in this area. Many have been and continue to be saved and discipled. They have been meeting in the blue temporary "tent" you see on the right of the picture. This area is only 15 miles from our compound but can take up to 1 1/2 hrs to get there. Our entire staff has been involved in getting the materials there. Many trips with the dump truck and others to carry blocks, water, cement, steel, sand and gravel. Through the death of a young worship pastor , his friends and family wanted to honor his life and commitment to the Lord. They began praying and felt the Lord leading them to build a church. What a blessing to this community.
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We are so excited about the new church plant near Saut d'Eau. The area is called Grand Savann. In the last couple of years the mission teams from TiTanyen Church, under the direction of Pastor Kelly, have been sharing the Gospel in this area. Many have been and continue to be saved and discipled. They have been meeting in the blue temporary "tent" you see on the right of the picture. This area is only 15 miles from our compound but can take up to 1 1/2 hrs to get there. Our entire staff has been involved in getting the materials there. Many trips with the dump truck and others to carry blocks, water, cement, steel, sand and gravel. Through the death of a young worship pastor , his friends and family wanted to honor his life and commitment to the Lord. They began praying and felt the Lord leading them to build a church. What a blessing to this community.
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Feb 13, 2014 for (Jan 2014 & 1/2 of Feb 2014))
The year started off with a bang. Casey Dean arrived on Dec 30, 2013 to intern with us for a year after making 12 short term trips. (Watch those short term trips....Haiti gets in your blood) . Pat and Andy Richardson arrived on Dec. 31, 2013. They have been many times for week long stays but felt the Lord wanted them to come for a month. These guys are GREAT....they work so well together and their heart is to make the homes of the missionaries more eye appealing and comfortable. They decided to come and tackle Staff 1 house. What a project! They came with all the materials to make curtains, bedspreads, covers for chairs, pillows, paint, they refurbished furniture.... the list goes on. It would be hard to tell you all that they accomplished. Attaching a few pictures for you to see.
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Jan.1, 2014 a team of 23 Americans, Canadians and Haitians arrived to do a week long Youth leaders Conference. This was overseen by Chris and Sheryl Brumley/ Camp Barnabas & Carl and Maya Gilles with National Wesleyan Leaders. It was great to see how the Word was poured into the 200 youth leaders as well as times of worship and play.
Jan.14, 2014 a church women's group came to spend the day in Bible study, worship, prayer food and fellowship.
We are always blessed to guest house for a group called Global Compassion located in MO. They work in the northwest of Haiti and use our facilities to overnight coming and going. This year they had 25 on the first team..left 5 people here on compound to paint, repair vehicles, do home schooling for missionary children and gather up supplies for the next group coming in. At the end of the week these 5 plus the second team all went to the northwest to minister.
Bethel Church from CO arrived on Jan 24th. So sorry to miss them as David had to be at a special called Executive Board meeting for GO on Jan 25th in Tupelo, MS. Because we were not going to be here for the New Work Fellowship church team from Hopkinsville, KY we took the time to drive to their church from Owensboro, KY to share with them and take them some items to bring into Haiti. Appreciate all those that came on the two teams and the work accomplished.
Jan. 27th Monday we left Owensboro to head for Agape Flights in Venice, FL to drop off 453 lbs of items that could not be shipped except in a special (expensive) container. We drove as far as Nashville and received a call from a friend we were going to see in Atlanta. He said "DON'T COME"... Good advice. We decided to call Tommy and Becky Scott to see if we could spend the night with them. Good move....even the next day Atlanta was shut down until Friday. We turned around on Tuesday and came back to Owensboro. We tried again. This time we were going to leave Owensboro on Monday morning as we needed to be in Tupelo on Tuesday for MOT. . Sunday we were dressed and ready to go to church. David decided to check the weather station. OH NO! winter storm starting at noon. We changed clothes, loaded the car and took off. toward MS. We landed in AL that night and visited the Richardson's at their home in Russellville, AL. We were able to cram all our classes of MOT into Tuesday morning so we could head down to Venice to drop off the items. We spent the three days visiting friends and family along the way to and from FL. Items delivered at Agape we were ready to head back north. Had the opportunity to visit with Ben and Ruth Ann Yantis and then in Atlanta we had lunch with Pastor Kelly's daughter Kernyne, who is in university there. Arrived back in Owensboro Friday night at 7pm....Finished 2,210 miles since Sunday. Our total time in the US was 19 days....we traveled 3,900 miles. WHEW!!!! glad to be back home.
Jan.1, 2014 a team of 23 Americans, Canadians and Haitians arrived to do a week long Youth leaders Conference. This was overseen by Chris and Sheryl Brumley/ Camp Barnabas & Carl and Maya Gilles with National Wesleyan Leaders. It was great to see how the Word was poured into the 200 youth leaders as well as times of worship and play.
Jan.14, 2014 a church women's group came to spend the day in Bible study, worship, prayer food and fellowship.
We are always blessed to guest house for a group called Global Compassion located in MO. They work in the northwest of Haiti and use our facilities to overnight coming and going. This year they had 25 on the first team..left 5 people here on compound to paint, repair vehicles, do home schooling for missionary children and gather up supplies for the next group coming in. At the end of the week these 5 plus the second team all went to the northwest to minister.
Bethel Church from CO arrived on Jan 24th. So sorry to miss them as David had to be at a special called Executive Board meeting for GO on Jan 25th in Tupelo, MS. Because we were not going to be here for the New Work Fellowship church team from Hopkinsville, KY we took the time to drive to their church from Owensboro, KY to share with them and take them some items to bring into Haiti. Appreciate all those that came on the two teams and the work accomplished.
Jan. 27th Monday we left Owensboro to head for Agape Flights in Venice, FL to drop off 453 lbs of items that could not be shipped except in a special (expensive) container. We drove as far as Nashville and received a call from a friend we were going to see in Atlanta. He said "DON'T COME"... Good advice. We decided to call Tommy and Becky Scott to see if we could spend the night with them. Good move....even the next day Atlanta was shut down until Friday. We turned around on Tuesday and came back to Owensboro. We tried again. This time we were going to leave Owensboro on Monday morning as we needed to be in Tupelo on Tuesday for MOT. . Sunday we were dressed and ready to go to church. David decided to check the weather station. OH NO! winter storm starting at noon. We changed clothes, loaded the car and took off. toward MS. We landed in AL that night and visited the Richardson's at their home in Russellville, AL. We were able to cram all our classes of MOT into Tuesday morning so we could head down to Venice to drop off the items. We spent the three days visiting friends and family along the way to and from FL. Items delivered at Agape we were ready to head back north. Had the opportunity to visit with Ben and Ruth Ann Yantis and then in Atlanta we had lunch with Pastor Kelly's daughter Kernyne, who is in university there. Arrived back in Owensboro Friday night at 7pm....Finished 2,210 miles since Sunday. Our total time in the US was 19 days....we traveled 3,900 miles. WHEW!!!! glad to be back home.
Feb. 13, 2014 (NOV 2013/ DEC 2013)
Long time....no write.
Oct 2013 until Nov. 12, 2013 David and I were in the US. We did MOT (Missionary Orientation Training) in Tupelo, MS the first week of Oct and then GO Mission Fair and GO Board meeting the first weekend in Nov. David also underwent some medical testing at Vanderbilt trying to discover the problem with his shoulders and an upper and lower GI. They found nerve damage in two nerves. They think this may be causing the "shakey hands". Taking some meds to overcome the symptoms of the stomach and intestines.
We had the blessing of sharing an early Thanksgiving with our family before returning to Haiti.
We had the pleasure of hosting the CEO of Agape and a photographer the first week of Dec. Agape had been given money during the earthquake. They still had several grants to give out to ministries doing post earthquake projects. We applied for a $15,000 grant to drill three wells and were blessed to receive the entire amount. We were able to show the Agape crew how their funds had blessed so many. Each well provides water to approximately 500 per day.
Christmas.....Such a joy to hand out the gifts to the school children. Over 500 hundred children were blessed with toys, candy and hygiene products. THANK YOU First Baptist Church Hendersonville, NC for gathering and bringing all these gifts to share. We love Christmas in Haiti with all our Missonary staff and Haitian staff. Such fun having our Mennonite neighbors come Christmas caroling on the 23rd. We had lasagna and all kinds of finger foods and desserts for the 53 in attendance. Thirty-two for Christmas dinner. God is good !!!! !
Oct 2013 until Nov. 12, 2013 David and I were in the US. We did MOT (Missionary Orientation Training) in Tupelo, MS the first week of Oct and then GO Mission Fair and GO Board meeting the first weekend in Nov. David also underwent some medical testing at Vanderbilt trying to discover the problem with his shoulders and an upper and lower GI. They found nerve damage in two nerves. They think this may be causing the "shakey hands". Taking some meds to overcome the symptoms of the stomach and intestines.
We had the blessing of sharing an early Thanksgiving with our family before returning to Haiti.
We had the pleasure of hosting the CEO of Agape and a photographer the first week of Dec. Agape had been given money during the earthquake. They still had several grants to give out to ministries doing post earthquake projects. We applied for a $15,000 grant to drill three wells and were blessed to receive the entire amount. We were able to show the Agape crew how their funds had blessed so many. Each well provides water to approximately 500 per day.
Christmas.....Such a joy to hand out the gifts to the school children. Over 500 hundred children were blessed with toys, candy and hygiene products. THANK YOU First Baptist Church Hendersonville, NC for gathering and bringing all these gifts to share. We love Christmas in Haiti with all our Missonary staff and Haitian staff. Such fun having our Mennonite neighbors come Christmas caroling on the 23rd. We had lasagna and all kinds of finger foods and desserts for the 53 in attendance. Thirty-two for Christmas dinner. God is good !!!! !
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