What's up????

It has been one of those no blog months! Yikes. 

Ok so I am still learning to ride the motorbike but no falls since!

Here is an update on life.

Grayden had an adventure as he bit into something and half of his molar came off. Not being able to remember if he had already lost that tooth, we could not decide if it was an adult tooth (a lot of dental work needed) or a baby tooth (no big deal). Praise God there happened to be a visiting dentist that week! In our new dental suite at the clinic (wow progression), he was able to consult with Grayden to let us know it was in fact a baby tooth and he could either take out the rest of the tooth, or Grayden could start wiggling and get it out himself. Grayden was quick to choose wiggling it himself :) 

My mom always complains that Laurens never takes pictures of his work at Mission of Hope. So here are a few. Below there is a windmill that is part of a big water project that has just been completed at Mission of Hope. It is a system of integrating well water and rain water to collect for our cisterns. You can learn more from Laurens' point of view on the MOH blog that he wrote (click on mission of hope on the right). 

The picture below is a picture of homes that we are building for earthquake victims. The people going into these homes have been living in temporary housing for over a year. It is a master planned community that we have planned for 500 homes. 

Below you will see one of our crews building latrines. This is a great picture both for development but also for community health. You will notice that with all our construction we hire national workers and we supplement with visiting teams to do the "easy stuff" like painting etc. I love the fact that here at Mission of Hope, we provide jobs for so many. 

I have been busy training and creating modules within the community health program. Here you can see myself and one of our Haitian nurses educating a small village in the mountains how to protect themselves from Cholera and other diarrheal diseases. We love visiting the remote areas to educate people on how to prevent disease from a cultural and spiritual perspective. 

We have a lot of new things going on here since we have so many more staff living and working with us. We have a couples bible study, a kids devotion and games night, young life program with the orphanage and staff kids, ladies night (no men allowed) etc. The kids also got their first term report cards and they all did fantastic! We are looking forward to taking a week break in Dominican soon if we can make it there without the twins getting sick (they get car sick!) Look for our next blog on the amazing adventure of finding our sponsored kids (kids we had sponsored before even knowing about Mission of Hope) from an organization called New Missions in another part of Haiti.