March 26, 2014

Brian and Carla Tyndall arrived on the 15th of March. We started with a 3 day pastors/leaders seminar for 46 men and women. What a blessing to see how they were like sponges soaking up the Word. Brian has preached at two Sunday church services plus we have completed one 3 day outdoor crusade in an area out from Lillvois. Many many made decisions for Christ each night. We are now in a remote area called TiMarche. Rain dampened some of the crowd last night but others stayed to the end to listen to His Word.

March 19, 2014

Great to have so many people wanting to come and be a part of our lives and ministry! Eileen Brenize, a former GO Haiti missionary came and spent 13 days with us. She always brings David his favorite fruit cake that she makes...no matter what time of the year it is. She and Rolande (one of our Haitian lady workers) keep the Flannelgraph ministry functioning in at least 130 different programs. They call the ministry "Hope for Tomorrow." Eileen was so excited to see how the Haitians were able to organize their own one day training session for at least 125 leaders. What an encouragement to all involved.

Fun to have Kellie Johnston here. We have kept her very busy organizing the pharmacy. Her skills have been a blessing to Becky Ivy as they worked on the Sponsorship program. Becky brought Jessica Mason, Lyndal Barnett and Doug Tarrance as a small team from our home church.

While Becky, Jessica, Kellie, and Casey worked on the sponsorship kids Doug and Lyndal did much needed maintenance around the property.

March10,2014

Feb 28-March 5 -Madi Gras time in Haiti is always a time for Global Outreach Haiti to host a large CBH Youth conference here on our compound.  For five days we enjoyed hearing the singing, praising and laughter of 218 young people. They had all types of sports such as soccer, basketball, volleyball and jump rope to entertain them after they had their seminars in the day and preaching at night.

The new uniforms were donated by Lee University Women's Basketball team to Casey Dean.  The guys were thrilled.  They didn't want to come off the court when it was time to leave. 

March 1, 2014 we had a team of 21 arrive...yes I said a team of 21. Normally we limit our teams to 12 however it is hard to say NO to your only son and when 6 of the team members coming are family.  Our son, daughter-in-law, granddaughter, her husband and two of our great granddaughters were part of this team. The team was here to dedicate a new church in memory of Matt Davidson who died after an accident about 18 months ago. This team raised all the funds to construct the church.in less than two months..what a faith builder for all of them.  Matt's mother, father, brother, son and sister-in-law were also a part of this group.

On Sunday, March 2 Luke Davidson, Matt's brother, preached at TiTanyen. After lunch the team and all our staff went to the church site for a dedication.  WOW!  were they surprised.  They were expecting to see the foundation in and maybe the walls up but the church was complete. (in about 30 working days). GOD IS GOOD!  The dedication was such an emotional time for everyone.  Monday the team visited our Gran Moun feeding program, the Burn Clinic and El Bethel orphanage.  On Tuesday they painted the outside of the Volunteer Quarters.  Wednesday it was time for them to fly back to the US.  Short trip but so much accomplished.  Claire, our 9 year old great granddaughter, said  "I don't want to go home.  Grammie can home school me here."  Thank you Lord for the opportunity to show others a country and people that we love. 

March 6, 2014

Lots happening since our last blog.  We had a team of 9 from Owensboro, KY from several churches.  Due to some ticket problems they didn't arrive on Sat.  Sunday morning we picked them up at the airport....tired after spending the night in Miami airport ...but happy to be in Haiti.  So many skills on this team. Some skills maybe they weren't even aware they had. As the week progressed they made and painted the trusses for the new church in Grand Savann,  sanded and painted boards for 20 new pews, installed the new pews and trussess and put the metal roof on the new church. We had two professional welders so many vehicles, etc were repaired. Friday night we had our debriefing time with the team.  Afterwards David sat and talked with a young man about his relationship with the Lord. After an hour of sharing their lives with each other the young man said he had been saved but not baptized.  David told him to pray about this. Saturday morning the team sent word to us that the young man wanted David to baptize him. What a blessing as we all gathered around the pool singing and sharing what our baptisms had meant to us.  As David and Matt stepped into the water you could feel the Holy Spirit presence....buried in death....resurrected in His life. WOW!  just doesn't get any better than this.

David had hired a crane to set the trussess on the TiTanyen church while he had the welders here on the team.  What a fisaco. Crane was to arrive on Thursday afternoon.  It had two flat tires less than a mile from the church.  Then they had a broken axle.  Finally Friday afternoon about 5 pm the crane arrived at the church.  The operator said he was too tired to work then. He would be there at 6am Sat. morning. He was actually there at 7am but when he tired to put the first truss in place the hydraulic was leaking off and the operator couldn't stablize the truss. Before someone was hurt....we sent the crane and operator back.
Pray that we can find the right size crane plus a capable operator to finally set these huge steel trussess.