This past few weeks have been great in getting into our jobs further. Laurens is working on directing many projects at the mission and is identifying systems that need to be more organized (or have some organization!) It is a big job that he has ahead of him but he likes the challenge. Please pray for his patience when things that should be so easy and efficient take all day to complete.
Cheryl (I) have also been learning and gathering all the info I need in order to move medical ministries forward. It is also a job, sometimes appearing insurmountable but I am plucking away. I am very excited to be starting the planning for mobile clinics where we will be taking medical teams out into villages that have no health care or that can not afford to go to a doctor. Please pray for a calmness of spirit with the mound of jobs in front of me.
The kids now have school Mon/Wed/Fri until noon and Tues/Thurs until 3:30. This allows mom and dad to complete much needed work and also for them to make sure they are getting in subjects such as music, art and gym. The initial excitement of moving to Haiti has worn off a bit on them as is typical in the 3rd month with missionaries but they are handling it well. We have short term missionary teams that come here and just when the kids are starting to get real bored, a team arrives. This is a good distraction for them as they get a lot of attention by team members. Please pray for them as they continue to adjust to life here.
Meet our friend that was on our porch the other night. Thankfully it was on the wall at the END of our porch, but our porch none the less. We have also seen 2 babies that were dead around that area of the yard and porch. HMMM I thought, babies are not good. There could be many. Today Laurens is working in our yard whacking out weeds and putting in rocks. Good Luck Laurens!
We wanted to show you one of the amazing things our mission is working on. These are sand
filters. We use a slightly different model now but they effectively clean dirty water into drinking water just with sand!! They are amazing and we are using them in our schools, orphanages and feeding programs. They are a very inexpensive innovative way to ensure kids and families are getting safe clean water to drink. This water filter is $75 US but the new model that has been developed made out of concrete costs only $75 Haitian ($10 CDN)!
You may have heard on the news the school collapse in Haiti. The area affected is in an area in the outskirts of Port Au Prince called Petionville. This is the area that we will go sometimes for supplies. More than 90 children have died and many more are in the hospital. To top it off 2 of the main hospitals in Port-Au-Prince are on strike. While none of the kids or families we know were directly affected, our Haitian friends here feel very sad for the children and families in Petionville. Please pray for the families of the children that have died and also for those that are in hospital.
God bless!
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