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.