Thursday, April 18, 2013
April, 15, 2013
Not sure if you have been receiving David's updates. Judy flew out of
Haiti with Cindy and Amanda Wed April 3rd. after she noticed that she was not
seeing well out of her right eye. It seemed to have a veil over it.
Arrived back in Owensboro on Thursday afternoon. Had an
appointment with Dr. Maddox who said she definitely had a detached
retina.(40% detached) . He scheduled her for Dr. Millsap for Friday morning. Dr. Millsap
was able to do the surgery at 11:30 am on Friday morning. His treatment
was a gas bubble into the eye, a buckle around the eye and then because
of where she lives decided to go ahead and take care of the cataract at
the same time. Normally they would make two surgeries out of this. The gas bubble makes the cataract grow much faster. She will not be released to go back to Haiti for at
least a month. Continue to pray for His healing. She has been told to
just "sit" for the next week. Anyone that knows her knows how hard this
is for her.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
March 24, 2013
Holy Spirit filled two weeks. We had 7 nights at Canaan III. Sunday morning Brian preached at TiTanyen in the morning and night services. David preached at Light and Peace church in Bon Repos. On Monday night we were blessed to be able to take the Passion of Christ movie to a small village near the Dominican border. A few years ago Pastor Lamartine found this village that was called Valley of Satan. The people were literally living in caves and rock/mud houses. He approached an organization in PAP and they built the people 60 concrete block homes. He also established a church there and then he renamed the village Valley of God. People were excited to have the film and over 20 responded to the Gospel. Pray that a school can be established there. Right now the children, whose parents have the money for public transportation, have to go at least 5 miles into the closest town for school.
After seven nights in Canaan III we moved the crusade to Canaan I for two nights and then one night to Village of Grace. A total of 379 decisions for Christ were recorded. The Lord truly moved in the hearts of people during these days.
We had the blessing of seeing the full body of Christ at work as 30 plus people..faithful to come every night from the TiTanyen church arriving an hour and a half before services started. They were there witnessing and praying before the services, leading the worship and counseling during the invitations. WOW! what faithful and committed followers of Christ.
On the last night about a 100 ft from where we were set up we saw a lady standing by her little "store" standing and worshiping the Lord as the music played. I just couldn't miss the opportunity to tell her how she blessed me as I watched her worship Him. She said "how can I not worship Him after all He has done for me? On January 12, 2010 the earthquake struck and I was buried beneath the concrete of my home. The Lord rescued me as I heard the cries of many that were buried in the rubble and they didn't survive." She shared all this as stood in front of a very well worn tent that was now her home and store.
After seven nights in Canaan III we moved the crusade to Canaan I for two nights and then one night to Village of Grace. A total of 379 decisions for Christ were recorded. The Lord truly moved in the hearts of people during these days.
We had the blessing of seeing the full body of Christ at work as 30 plus people..faithful to come every night from the TiTanyen church arriving an hour and a half before services started. They were there witnessing and praying before the services, leading the worship and counseling during the invitations. WOW! what faithful and committed followers of Christ.
On the last night about a 100 ft from where we were set up we saw a lady standing by her little "store" standing and worshiping the Lord as the music played. I just couldn't miss the opportunity to tell her how she blessed me as I watched her worship Him. She said "how can I not worship Him after all He has done for me? On January 12, 2010 the earthquake struck and I was buried beneath the concrete of my home. The Lord rescued me as I heard the cries of many that were buried in the rubble and they didn't survive." She shared all this as stood in front of a very well worn tent that was now her home and store.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
March 12, 2013
Great week so far. Brian and Carla Tyndall arrived in Haiti on Friday. Sunday Brian preached at TiTanyen church and one person was saved. We started a crusade Sunday night in an area called Canaan. This is part of the tent cities that have sprung up since the earthquake. Sunday night there were 48 decisions for Christ. PTL!. We have been blessed to walk and pass out scripture pamphlets in the community inviting people to come to the crusade. David and I walked up and around the mountains for about 2 miles and the people were so receptive to our coming into their yards, etc. Brian and Carla actually walked further and longer than we did. (could that have anything to do with age???)
TiTanyen church is helping with the sound, counselors and musicians each night. Every night we have 2 women....in their 70's.. that walk around the entire area where people will be standing and sitting for the crusade and pray for at least an hour and a half. When the message starts they are on their knees praying the entire time the message is being preached. True prayer warriors.
We are blessed that our entire staff is committed to helping make all this possible. We are furnishing 4 trucks to get all the sound equipment, lights and people there to the area. After working all day this is quite a commitment for them to make this all happen. Please pray for those that are participating in bringing the Gospel to this tent city and for the hearts of those who hear the messages to be open and receptive to the WORD.
TiTanyen church is helping with the sound, counselors and musicians each night. Every night we have 2 women....in their 70's.. that walk around the entire area where people will be standing and sitting for the crusade and pray for at least an hour and a half. When the message starts they are on their knees praying the entire time the message is being preached. True prayer warriors.
We are blessed that our entire staff is committed to helping make all this possible. We are furnishing 4 trucks to get all the sound equipment, lights and people there to the area. After working all day this is quite a commitment for them to make this all happen. Please pray for those that are participating in bringing the Gospel to this tent city and for the hearts of those who hear the messages to be open and receptive to the WORD.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
March 6, 2013
The well drilling crews have been in full swing. We had three men come for two weeks...working with Clear Blue. They drilled in 3 wells with Nicky Runk finishing the last one. Our GO crew drilled in 3 more wells during the same period. With the 6 new wells our pump base crew was kept busy pouring bases and then installing new pumps. What a joy to see the faces of those who didn't have any water and now there is clean fresh water in their community.
WEAG from Richmond, VA sent in a team of 8. They came to do construction....both men and women. It was great for our guys to see just how hard this team could work. They worked side by side with our Haitian crew building the perimeter wall around the compound. HOT HARD HEAVY work but no complaining with this crew. (ages 15-69) WEAG also sent in funds for drilling a well. The team had the joy of helping install the new pump and pumping the first water to the community after our staff shared about the Living Water of Jesus.
WEAG from Richmond, VA sent in a team of 8. They came to do construction....both men and women. It was great for our guys to see just how hard this team could work. They worked side by side with our Haitian crew building the perimeter wall around the compound. HOT HARD HEAVY work but no complaining with this crew. (ages 15-69) WEAG also sent in funds for drilling a well. The team had the joy of helping install the new pump and pumping the first water to the community after our staff shared about the Living Water of Jesus.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
25 Feburary, 2013
Feburary is always the month for Madi Gras in Haiti. We are blessed when young people from the Convention Baptiste d' Haiti churches come for a five day Youth Conference here on our compound. This year around 180 attended. They sang, prayed, did crafts and had many Bible teaching sessions during this time. Such a wonderful get-away time for all of them.
David and I flew out for Missionary Orientation Training in Tupelo, MS the first week of Feb. David had been having lots of back problems before we left Haiti and on Monday night of the MOT he was worse. He called his doctor in Owensboro and the doctor asked him to get back to Owensboro on Wednesday morning for an MRI. On Tuesday we completed teaching all the sessions that we would normally teach throughout the week and headed back to KY on Tuesday night. The MRI was completed and the doctor said it was a muscle problem. On the paperwork he sent to the physical therapist it said "get this man ready to fly back to Haiti by next Wednesday". With physical therapy, chiropractic treatments and deep body massages he made the flight.
We met up with three men in the Miami airport....2 from Ohio and 1 from Oregon...who were coming to our compound to do well drilling. Their well rig was brought to our compound after the earthquake. The rig had a motor problem so they shipped in a new motor and came to install it. To check it out....they did several "test" holes for communities that desperately needed water. With their rig and our cable rig both working the last couple of weeks we have drilled in 5 new water wells. PTL!
Feb 16-22...Mark Green brought a team of 3 families....His family with 3 teenage girls, another family with two boys and a girl...all teens and a mother and teen daughter. What a blessing they were to us. Such godly families. The mother was chalk artist. She shared the Gospel as she illustrated the story with chalk. WOW! Sunday night in our Bible study time we had several other missionary families join us (44 people total) as she shared. She did this again on Tuesday night Bible study at TiTanyen for about 600, for Blanquette school of about 80 students and then on Thursday morning for our Kindergarten, our Morning School and another local school for a total of over 400 students. Everyone loved these CHALK TALKS. Besides this the families painted the Blanquette church inside and out. God is good!
David and I flew out for Missionary Orientation Training in Tupelo, MS the first week of Feb. David had been having lots of back problems before we left Haiti and on Monday night of the MOT he was worse. He called his doctor in Owensboro and the doctor asked him to get back to Owensboro on Wednesday morning for an MRI. On Tuesday we completed teaching all the sessions that we would normally teach throughout the week and headed back to KY on Tuesday night. The MRI was completed and the doctor said it was a muscle problem. On the paperwork he sent to the physical therapist it said "get this man ready to fly back to Haiti by next Wednesday". With physical therapy, chiropractic treatments and deep body massages he made the flight.
We met up with three men in the Miami airport....2 from Ohio and 1 from Oregon...who were coming to our compound to do well drilling. Their well rig was brought to our compound after the earthquake. The rig had a motor problem so they shipped in a new motor and came to install it. To check it out....they did several "test" holes for communities that desperately needed water. With their rig and our cable rig both working the last couple of weeks we have drilled in 5 new water wells. PTL!
Feb 16-22...Mark Green brought a team of 3 families....His family with 3 teenage girls, another family with two boys and a girl...all teens and a mother and teen daughter. What a blessing they were to us. Such godly families. The mother was chalk artist. She shared the Gospel as she illustrated the story with chalk. WOW! Sunday night in our Bible study time we had several other missionary families join us (44 people total) as she shared. She did this again on Tuesday night Bible study at TiTanyen for about 600, for Blanquette school of about 80 students and then on Thursday morning for our Kindergarten, our Morning School and another local school for a total of over 400 students. Everyone loved these CHALK TALKS. Besides this the families painted the Blanquette church inside and out. God is good!
Monday, February 18, 2013
January/Feb 2013
What a great start to the year of 2013.!!!! many have already come to be a part of short term missions in Haiti.
January 8th Thomas and Rachel arrived in Haiti for a two month stay. They know they are called to foreign missions but not sure of the country. Their pastor suggested they come with an established mission on their first extended stay out of the US. What a blessing these 24 yr old young people are to this mission. Thomas said he came to be a "help" and HELP he is....willing to do whatever...from painting, to laying blocks with our Haitian staff building a wall, to cutting down trees to make way for the new wall, to cooking breakfast for guest housing groups, to leading worship for our Sunday night Bible study. Rachel is an RN and works every day with Sheryl in the clinic. Great to have extra hands.
We hosted two teams from KY in January. The first team from Danville, KY. This team was headed up by Tom Christopher. Tom has been doing a John Maxwell Leadership Conf. in Haiti for the last three years. His wife and sister plus three others made up the team. They went to Cite of Reparatries Church and School and trained teachers, taught sewing to the church ladies, built a swing set and painted cartoons, etc on the outside of the school The kids as well as the adults loved the swing set.
Jan.19-26 we had a team of six from Owensboro, KY. Todd Heady, David's second cousin, headed up the team from Owensboro Christian Church as well as John Warren from Bellevue. This was a very multi-talented team. They helped us catch up on so many maintenance needs around the compound. People have no idea that when they are willing to do these tasks how much pressure they take off our long term staff. It saves hours and days of laboring.
January 8th Thomas and Rachel arrived in Haiti for a two month stay. They know they are called to foreign missions but not sure of the country. Their pastor suggested they come with an established mission on their first extended stay out of the US. What a blessing these 24 yr old young people are to this mission. Thomas said he came to be a "help" and HELP he is....willing to do whatever...from painting, to laying blocks with our Haitian staff building a wall, to cutting down trees to make way for the new wall, to cooking breakfast for guest housing groups, to leading worship for our Sunday night Bible study. Rachel is an RN and works every day with Sheryl in the clinic. Great to have extra hands.
We hosted two teams from KY in January. The first team from Danville, KY. This team was headed up by Tom Christopher. Tom has been doing a John Maxwell Leadership Conf. in Haiti for the last three years. His wife and sister plus three others made up the team. They went to Cite of Reparatries Church and School and trained teachers, taught sewing to the church ladies, built a swing set and painted cartoons, etc on the outside of the school The kids as well as the adults loved the swing set.
Jan.19-26 we had a team of six from Owensboro, KY. Todd Heady, David's second cousin, headed up the team from Owensboro Christian Church as well as John Warren from Bellevue. This was a very multi-talented team. They helped us catch up on so many maintenance needs around the compound. People have no idea that when they are willing to do these tasks how much pressure they take off our long term staff. It saves hours and days of laboring.
Monday, July 23, 2012
April - June 2012
WHERE HAVE I BEEN AND WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING?
It has been almost 4 months since my last blog. I didn't drop off the deep end...just seems as though there are never enough hours in the day. I will bullet point what has been going on in our lives and try to catch up.
April 2012
It has been almost 4 months since my last blog. I didn't drop off the deep end...just seems as though there are never enough hours in the day. I will bullet point what has been going on in our lives and try to catch up.
April 2012
- CBH Pastors/family conference.
- Robert Snyder team of 10
- Our Haitian lawyer says we need to construct a wall at least across the front of the compound. So many are moving close to here in land give-aways.
- David Jr and Betsy bring filming crew and also Henry and Lorell Crabtree
- Crabtree's installed tankless water heaters in all houses, VQ and Conference Center Kitchen
- Heady's flew to US the last week of April for GO Board meetings, video taping, et
- Took a couple of days at Crabtree's lake house and did some fishing
- Kids surprised me again with a belated 70th Birthday party in the US
- Went to French Lick for a night to celebrate our 52nd wedding anniversary
- Visited individual supporters and met with mission directors of supporting churches, etc in Arkansas and Texas. Had a great 5 days on the road
- Had some time with grandchildren in Louisville
- Caught up on doctors appt....eyes, hearing aids, back, etc.
- Drove to Tupelo on Sunday June 3rd to start Mission Orientation Training on June 4th. This was the largest MOT we've had with 18 new missionaries. Finished on June 8th
- Packed and returned to Haiti on June 12th with Casey Dean. She stayed with us 5 1/2 weeks.
- Had a team from Wyoming already here. Great group.
- Sam Massey and team of 6 arrived (June 14th) to put a new electrical service in the old depot, put new service to the Vehicle Maintenance building and the new Youth meeting center.
- June 19th Kayla Kirkpatrick came to intern with us for a month. Bethany Morris flew in with her to stay a week.
- Had 38 Kindergarten graduates and their teachers for a day out on the compound. How funny....we did some water slides and water sprinklers. Try teaching that to children who have never played in water before. Served all a nice lunch
- June 22nd New Work Fellowship arrived with a team of 12...did lots of maintenance work and a 3 day VBS in TiTanyen.
- Had 4 men that needed to overnight here on their way out of the country.
- June 23rd. Kindergarten graduation for 38 students plus graduation for the Afternoon School. They really put on a very nice program
- June 25th...day out for Morning and Afternoon school children. Played soccer, basketball, etc plus served them all a nice lunch.
- Ben Scott, who has been coming to Haiti since he was 6 years old, came with another group. They drove here to spend the day with us and have lunch. Great to spend time with this group.
- Josh Brumley flew out with the New Work group. He is going out to spend his senior year in Colorado. We will certainly miss him. He has blessed our lives for over 9 years
- Eaton First Free church arrived with 33 on June 29th. Great group. Very disciplined and hard workers. They did a 3 day Youth Camp and then spent one day pouring cement at the Youth center building.
- Robyn Rone from our home town arrived on June 30th to spend a week with us.
Friday, March 30, 2012
Friday March 30, 2012
SURPRISE !!! that is an understatement. For several weeks we had been talking about our former neighbor John coming for a visit to Haiti. He has been wanting to help with well drilling. David told me that John had decided to come Sat. March 24th. We left a suitcase full of items for "John" to bring to Haiti for us. Saturday when it was time to go pick up "John" at the airport.....we found the plane had an oil problem and the arrival time was 4 hours later than expected. As David and Glen left for the airport they decided to take the 15 passenger van. I did ask why when my car was much easier to navigate in the traffic and after all....they were only picking up "John". David said there was a noise in the van and Glen wanted him to drive it to see if he could figure out what the problem was. Sounded logical to me.... The plane finally arrived at 8:10pm so it was after 9:30 before they arrived back on the compound. It was raining so I didn't hear the vehicle drive up. David knocked on the door and as I opened it there was Becky Ivy, Casey Dean, the Howard family....Eugene, Tonya and Meredith ( our associate pastor and family) PLUS all our American staff with cameras in hand. SHOCKED!!!! again an understatement. All these had come to help me celebrate a milestone in my life ( my 70th ) birthday.
Every one but me had known about this for weeks. They all worked hard to keep the secret. I really needed a haircut so I told David I needed to go to PAP and get one. He asked me to wait a week so he could go. Well...that week passed and I was getting a little frustrated. I told David I would take another friend plus one of our Haitian staff. He finally said, "wait until Tuesday and I will go with you....I want to get a haircut too" More frustration. What most of you don't know is that Tonya is my hairdresser in the US and she was coming to give me a haircut. When the group arrived David said "well, I'm glad this is over. I've never lied to my wife in 52 years and the last couple of weeks I have had to lie to her. This isn't fun."
So much went on behind the scenes. Linda Erickson did all the grocery shopping for the team. Sheryl planned a wonderful birthday dinner with Cecile and the other ladies. Sheryl said the dinner kept growing. We had to have the first course then open presents and head back for the main course and desserts. Thanks to all who sent gifts and cards. WOW!!! It is a birthday I will never forget.
Every one but me had known about this for weeks. They all worked hard to keep the secret. I really needed a haircut so I told David I needed to go to PAP and get one. He asked me to wait a week so he could go. Well...that week passed and I was getting a little frustrated. I told David I would take another friend plus one of our Haitian staff. He finally said, "wait until Tuesday and I will go with you....I want to get a haircut too" More frustration. What most of you don't know is that Tonya is my hairdresser in the US and she was coming to give me a haircut. When the group arrived David said "well, I'm glad this is over. I've never lied to my wife in 52 years and the last couple of weeks I have had to lie to her. This isn't fun."
So much went on behind the scenes. Linda Erickson did all the grocery shopping for the team. Sheryl planned a wonderful birthday dinner with Cecile and the other ladies. Sheryl said the dinner kept growing. We had to have the first course then open presents and head back for the main course and desserts. Thanks to all who sent gifts and cards. WOW!!! It is a birthday I will never forget.
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