July 28, 2011

Picked up a team of 12 yesterday. They are from Fellowship Church in Brentwood, TN. Two adults with 10 9th and 10th graders. They will be working with a children's program in TiTanyen for a couple of days and then with another children's program in the mountains on Saturday. Lots of painting for them to do too. The Burn Clinic addition is finished and ready for a coat of paint.
David Jr, Betsy, Ben Scott and Mitch (a friend of David Jr's) will arrive tomorrow. On Saturday a team of 9 will arrive from Westport Rd Baptist Church, Louisville, KY . We have 5 others here drilling wells too. Never dull.....lots of people. I've run out of beds to sleep people until after Aug 6th. PRAY for our strength as we attempt to mix all these groups and accomplish what the Lord wants done in the next 10 days.

July 27 ,2011

Great Week. July 18th a team from Christ Life Church in Tempe, AZ arrived led by Pastor Phil Goldsberry. He was accompanied by his son-in-law Brendon, son Phillip and wonderful support group for a total of 11. We were blessed to have 4 days of VBS....two days in the mountains at Blanquet Church and 2 days at Shekina Church. I was so impressed by the organization of this team...everything they did they did with excellence....from the Bible story teaching to the crafts and then the games. Everything pointed the children to Jesus. Each one of them showed the love of Jesus to these 300 children. I think there were around 45 young people that prayed to receive Christ and many others prayed for a stronger walk with Him. This team also worked toward painting the outside of Shekina church. This is a very large church and they only had a couple of afternoons to paint. Trisha..one of the team members worked in the kitchen a couple of afternoons showing our Haitian staff some new recipes. They loved it.

July 15, 2011

Monday July 11th Brian Tyndall...COO for our GO Home office arrived with his 17 year old son Caleb. It was their first time in Haiti. Great to be able to show them the ministry here. Our only regret was they arrived to late to see the Gran Moun Feeding program Monday morning and all our schools closed on July 8th. Sorry they missed the kids...especially the Kindergarten children. We were able to show them a lot of the ministry and they were able to spend time with each of our couples and their families plus Pastor Kelly. On Thursday they flew to Jacmel to visit with the Whittaker's before flying back to PAP on Friday morning. We had enough time for David to bring them back to the compound for lunch with all our staff and then back to PAP to fly back to the US.
Thursday morning we received a call that our container was on the road to the compound. WOW!!! We loaded the container on June 4th in Nashville. The container left Nashville on the 7th of June . July 7th it arrived in Haiti and believe it or not....it cleared customs and was on the GO property at 10:30 am this Thursday morning. (normally it is at least 4 to 6 weeks clearing customs). EVERYONE was enlisted to unload this container. We worked 5 hrs on Thursday and about 7 hrs today to complete the task. Needless to say it was a HOT HOT job. What made it more difficult was we had some huge shelving for our warehouse on the container plus 600 sheets of 15ft metal roofing for the new TiTanyen Church. Lots of clothes, shoes, blankets, folding chairs, ice maker, copier, welder generator, etc filled out the container. Lots of things to bless a lot of people. We want to thank everyone who contributed the items and especially those who came to Nashville to help load. Praise the Lord !!!!

July 13, 2011

July 2nd a great team arrived. ...Mark Green, his wife Linda, daughters Taylor, Danielle and Jessica with son Travis and his wife Shalane. Also on the team were 5 very mature, well mannered high school seniors....Ethan, Jordon, Ashton, Kelly and Ally. What a wonderful time we had with this group. We were blessed to hear how God touched each one of them as they opened their hearts to hear from the Lord. We had the team going in several different directions. Some worked each morning at the clinic, some painted the schools...(Thanks guys for resurrecting the cartoon characters on the wall of the Kindergarten.) Some of these painting were peeling and they were able to refurbish them. Several of the guys went on the well repair team. All the houses we built have now been painted inside and out. PTL!. So many happy families....grateful to have a safe and secure place to live. We were blessed to see how this team bonded with the Haitian people.