TWO WEEKS???

Two weeks….wow time has gone fast.


Spent the last week uploading antivirus to my computer…it can be a real pain when power/internet keeps going out….sorry about the lack of updates…a lot to do around here 

I keep myself really busy, from construction, to rubble removal, to teaching. My latest project was to make 20 desk/benches for a local school that is opening up. Since the quake not many schools have opened, we are working with a school that was in our neighborhood and flattened by the earthquake. We helped clear some land, got some “big top” tents and started having class. The school is staffed by Haitians and we are helping with some of the logistics….like school benches. One great approach that Haiti Family is implementing is to get Haitians jobs…and helping a school like this helps get those teachers and administrators back to their jobs….it’s so fun to see the kids come to school, sit in their benches and learn…

Teaching: I continue to lead three different groups 3- 4 days a week.

Monday Wednesday and Friday I teach conversational English class to two separate groups of young people. The first group is a group of guys called the Yung Goddis (young God followers). This is a group of twelve guys who have changed their lives since the earthquake. Before the quake they were going after money, girls and getting into trouble throughout the neighborhood, now they have dedicated themselves to following God. They range from 15 years old to 21 and many are street kids. Every morning at 5:30 they meet for a bible study, during the day they work. A group of volunteers from Colorado donated some money to start a work program with these young men. So we have used this opportunity to build responsibility and leadership skills into them. For example, being on time for work is very important and how hard they work is looked at etc…etc…etc…Overall they have responded really well to the encouragement that they CAN rebuild their city and nation….both physically and spiritually.

A second group of young adults I teach (Mon, Wed, and Friday), are a group left over from a group that friends Wes and Clint had started. These guys are in their early to mid twenties and just hungry for education and knowledge. Most of these guys want to become experts at the English language to be, politicians, lawyers and leaders of their community. Now I do have a curriculum but Wes and Clint original curriculum was reading sections of the English bible along with the Creole bible.

The Third group I lead is the translators bible study. Our organization, Haiti Family ministry, provides translators for our own medical clinics and a local hospital. So Monday thru Thursday I lead a voluntary afternoon bible study on their break time. We are going through the Gospel of John, reading, discussing and applying Jesus’ principles to our lives (or at least trying). There are six to twelve students, depending on the day and the time has been encouraging and challenging.

The rain seems to hit either early evening or at night, my tent has been dry but it gets really hot and stuffy after the rain. The rain busts are 30 -60 min but can be really hard…and in this heat it does not take long to dry out.

We continue to have groups come in from all over the states. Last week a group from Pennsylvania, they worked on a property we are setting up as a second “base” for lodging and relaxing. The group had a couple masons so they built some cinder block walls, and poured concrete, I tried to help but this was their profession…(so I ended up getting in the way), well I like to say I played a supervisory roll. We also are starting to put up “sheds.” Another group from Penn. sent down 50 8x12 Sheds to use as temporary housing…there was a three man crew…setting up two sheds a day. It is hard to keep up as the land has to be cleared first..which is very hard work breaking up rubble by hand and removing this rubble on wheel barrel at a time. Much to say…thanks for reading and your prayers/support

Next week a group from Florida….