December 2013 update

December 2013 update

Items needed to take with us.  We leave January 7 so would need by Jan 5th:

crochet hooks to continue the crocheting classes

trumpet new or used if in good condition(a young Haitian man we know would like to learn to play)

2 or 3 puppets for working with children

 

FYI: Haiti baskets for sale at Bread of Life Christian bookstore on the square in downtown Clinton MO

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If you would like to adopt a child or a whole family in Haiti for Christmas, please contact us by email or call us at 660-351-5168.

 

It is good to pause and count our blessings at every birthday (or new year).  They pile up with the years.   He has work for us here and each milestone shows that He chose to have us remain to give Him a hand.  Resolve to seek God then ask Him how you can make this next year count.

 

Some of you ask about our days in Haiti.  It is hard to put into a definite schedule because each day can be very different.  But below is a sometimes common day.  Enjoy

A Day in Haiti

4 a.m. start hearing roosters

4-5 a.m. wake up; get up; quiet time

6 a.m. light begins to come over the horizon

6:15 a.m. look out my window to see children picking the glowers in the yard and eating the stem or knocking almonds out of the tree, break them with a rock for a drop of food size of about 3 grains of rice

6:30 a.m. go for walk, see people out and about with hoes and machetes or carrying stuff to sell at a market somewhere.  Begin to smell wood or charcoal cooking.  See more children out scavanging for food. Elkerly widow lady looking for a dollar to buy a piece of bread and I give it to her.  A young boy taking a goat somewhere to graze.  Donkeys filled with wood or grass or water going back home.  Kids and youth on there way to get water at the nearest spring to carry back on their head, sometimes a far as a mile away.  People greeting me asking me where I am going because they don't understand why I would just be walking for my health.  Pray with those that come by or meet on the road.  Put solar lights out to charge because we have no electricity.  Prepare drinking water.  Prepare breakfast.

Mid-morning: Walk (because we have no vehicle) to get food supplies needed for the day because we have no refrigeration.  Prepare the food purchased then begin lunch.

Afternoon: Get water from cistern with buckets (because we have no running water).  Fix a shower bag with water to set in the sun to warm up for a late afternoon shower.  Disciple and/or minister to those that come by.  Go out with a pastor or someone to do some evangelism/ministry.

Late afternoon: shower.  Prepare something to eat for a evening snack.  Soon after dark retire to bed.  Hope to get sleep without interruptions of roosters, donkeys, goats noises or motorcycle horns.

 

Other days:

If it is a rainy day no one goes anywhere.  In school they have mud days instead of snow days.

Tuesdays: our big market day to get grains and other non perishables for the week.

Sundays: Sunday school starts anytime from 6a.m. to 8a.m. Service starts one hour later.  Finish after 3 - 4 hours sitting on hard benches.