We spent a great Christmas here in Haiti with the kids. Teagan made a Christmas tree out of green construction paper and paper ornaments and stuck it to our wall.
It was great and served it's purpose nicely. Here you can see the kids excited to have received a full stocking for their second Christmas in Haiti (we spent it here last year visiting).
On Christmas Eve, All 58 orphan kids came up to
the staff housing and guest house for a party and sleepover! It was
a blast full of good food, treats, movies on the concrete wall, hot chocolate and jammies. Our kids had fun colouring and partying with their friends.
After Christmas came Francia's wedding.
I know what you are thinking....what is Laurens doing in that picture? Wasn't Cheryl the only one in that wedding? Well yes she was until one hour before the wedding when the best man bailed! Not only did Laurens have 4 girls pleading him to be the best man at the last minute, he had to cut his hair, shower, borrow a suit jacket, dress up more than he was planning, rush in to the city to pick up the groom and make it back to the church before the pastor noticed! He was a trooper though and looked dapper escorting the bride down the isle.
After Christmas thanks to Rachel agreeing to watch our dog, we were able to travel to Jacmel for a 3 day holiday adventure. Jacmel is on the south east side of Haiti and is BEAUTIFUL. There is less deforestation there and so you get a beautiful glimpse of what this great island could look like. It was breathtaking. We stayed in a small hotel, overlooking great cliff faces out to the Caribbean ocean as far as you can see. While in Jacmel, we climbed mountains in our truck and drove along cliffs that no one in their right mind in Canada would pass, we drove through a river (the kids thought this was particularly cool),
hiked into the jungle and rappelled over a small rock face. Our destination was a beautiful waterfall that cascades down into pools of turquoise fresh water lakes (75 feet deep caverns under water). This picture was taken at the edge of one of the pools before we sat behind the waterfall and subsequently jumped out of it!
It was a fantastic little holiday and just what we needed as we could not afford to go home to Canada for Christmas this year.
We came back feeling refreshed and ready to tackle our work here at the mission.
Until.......... we realized that termites had destroyed one and a half of our new cupboards that the carpenters were supposed to have treated with termite spray. Boom! Welcome back to Haiti reality...(they hadn't treated the cupboards) Laurens removed the cupboard and now we await for the stores to open so we can purchase the termite treatment so we don't loose the rest of the them......
Well the Canadian Team arrives this week and we will be hard at work, Cheryl will be leading her first medical teams on mobile clinics into more un-reached area's and Laurens will be busily making sure the constructions projects go well. Please pray for effectiveness in our work for the Lord and that He will shine through in all the lives we touch this week.
We thought we would leave you with this cute picture of Bridgely doing his soccer stretches with the kids at our Hope House orphanage.
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