How long have we been back?

 

It seems like we have been here for month but we arrived here on January 14. On the 15^th two dear friends arrived to stay with us and help us with work we are doing.  They are part of a group I lovingly call the Minnesota well drillers.  Irene and Paul were such a blessing. Irene helped me set up a Guest House for Empower Global. It is quite a task to take an empty kitchen and turn it into a working kitchen.  Lot of shopping was done in the states and here to get all of the supplies. But on January 27 the team arrived.  Now it is a busy time of caring for and feeding 24 at each meal.  I have a wonderful Haitian staff who are amazing cooks.  For those of you who know Josianne and Rose they are heading up the kitchen team and Lunia is in charge of cleaning and laundry.  The men are raving about the food.  These men as Bud mentioned are here to build an education center.  It is fun to see Bud enjoying the trades again that he worked with so many years.  This past week Joy and Hope of Haiti came in and they are another organization I work with.  We are busy visiting all the sites that we distribute soup to.  This soup is put together by Gleaners of Canada. It is a dehydrated soup that has so much nutrition. So far over 10,000 children and adults has been served this soup.  One place is in the house of a young man who feed severely malnutrition children who live along the river.  I along with Pastor Noe are responsible to deliver this food each month.  Our orphanage is one of the benefiters of this soup. 

Monday a crusie ship is coming in and I will be going to pick them up and take them around to many different areas of ministry.  Another team is coming in for a people’s race here and I will be helping these people who are interested in missions to have a good experience.

Tuesday February 4 we will be moving the kids (orphanage) to their new home.  Everything is set to go but the present landlord has decided that he wants us to pay $600 to have the present house repainted so he can move into the house or he will not release the children’s things and what furniture we have.  Praise the Lord, He has provided this money and we can move.  For months the children have shared beds.  Some children raised enough money to have 8 sets of bunk beds built and someone else says they will help with more mattresses. This is amazing.

February 8 our home church arrives and we will be doing different projects at the school I teach at. Yes among all of this I am still teaching three days a week.

Our car is having problems.  Bud had to put a new water pump in It and it continues to overheat.  Not a good time to be without a car but we are blessed to have a friend taxi driver who is helping.

Life is good but hectic but fulfilling.  Many of these visitors we have had do not know the Lord and we are seeing firsthand how God can change hearts.  We are not just here for the Haitians.  We are here for all those God puts in our lives.

Sammy adoption is still being worked on and we have not heard how it is going.  Sunday we spoke in a

Church and one of the directors of the IBES was there and told us he will help as well.  God has put people in place and now we are waiting for it all to come about. Sammy is going through the terrible 2 and he is a very determined child who is also very intelligent.  This week some of the French speaking visitors had him naming all his body parts in French.  He is now speaking French, English and Creole. It is fun to watch him grow up.