Home again, home again, jiggety jig…

I’m writing from the States, and in a week I’ll be back in Haiti.  So “home again” applies to both places; they are both “home”.  I have been back in the states for a few months to help my best friend and my brother prepare for their marriage.  They were married January 17th, and are very happily preparing to move back to Haiti – together this time.  Michael, as you probably know, has lived there since 2010, and Breanna (my best friend and now his wife) lived down there for a year.  We are all going back to Haiti this next week, and will be living in a small two story house that Michael and others have been working on for the past 1-2 years.  God has blessed us richly in providing what we have needed to have the house basically completed by now.  A special thank you, if YOU were part of that provision!

I am planning on starting advanced Creole language classes as soon as possible.  I need to be able and confident in my ability to communicate without a translator.  You can pray that I will be able to find a good tutor, and that my mind will easily retain the vocabulary.  I also plan to plant a garden, resume tutoring my cousin’s son (fellow missionaries), and try to settle down into life there before the next team we have in March.

Please pray for us as we endeavor to bring glory to the name of Christ, and share the blessedness of the Gospel.  The hearts of men are so dark with wickedness, pray that God would graciously bring many souls to Himself.

Without your prayers and support, the work will still go on, but with them, it truly gives wings to our feet and and lightens the load.  Please remember us, pray for us, and communicate with us.  Sometimes we know you are are praying, but to hear from you that day that you are praying can make all the difference in how encouraged our hearts are.

Please remember also that sharing the truth in a foreign land costs something as well.  If you would like to help financially please go to  www.aidforhaiti.org .

Thank you to those of you who have given in the past and have promised to remember us in our work!

December House Pictures

On November 26-December 4th, Philip, Rebekah and I went to help work on the apartment for Michael and I!  A few of the things accomplished on this trip were:

Painting the inside of the apartment
Installing door frames and doors
Putting together the kitchen cabinets, installing them and the counter tops
Prep for plumbing the bathroom and kitchen
Concreting the shower floor
Making a closet and bed for our bedroom
Installing rails on the stairway that leads up to the apartment
Wiring
Etc.

Michael has been working hard on the security aspect of the house, welding window grates (which he is doing in the photo below), painting, and installing them.   He is also doing what he can to get the house ready for our return in February before he comes home next week.  Please pray for him as he has a lot to do right now!

Below are pictures!

Michael and Breanna's apartment is the second floor.
Michael and Breanna’s apartment is the second floor.

 

Stair way leading up
Stair way leading up

 

View from front door: Living room and kitchen in main room, bed room through door on right, and bathroom through door on left.
View from front door: Living room and kitchen in main room, bedroom through door on right, and bathroom through door on left.
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Bedroom
Bedroom closet
Bedroom closet
Bathroom
Bathroom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Front door and part of living room shown
Front door and living room

 

Kitchen
Kitchen

Update on the apartment…

September 29 – October 7th

Timothy Rudolph, Christen Beiler and Lowell Miller went down to Grand Fond, Haiti to help Michael put up the second story apartment! They were able to get a lot done!  We praise the Lord for their safety as they worked on the upper story framing, roofing, mounting solar panels, etc.  God blessed their time in so many ways. Before they left the US for Haiti, it had been pouring rain in Grand Fond every day; which, if that continued,  it would have made it very difficult to get done what they needed to get done. The whole time they were down there it did not rain, and we believe this was a direct answer to prayer.  They were able to accomplish all this team went to do.

Pictures below!

The first wall up!
The first wall is up!

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More walls up!
More walls are up!
Framing the walls inside.
Framing the walls inside. A bathroom is on the left, and a bedroom on the right.
Building the rafters for the roof.
Working on the roof.
A picture from the far corner of the property.  It's looking more like a house :)
A picture from the far corner of the property. It’s looking more like a house 🙂
This was Christen Beiler's third trip down to help with the house.
This was Christen Beiler’s third trip down to help with the house.
Michael and Timothy after a long and hard but successful week.
Michael and Timothy after a long and hard but successful week.

Thank you so much to the guys who gave so much of their time and energy to help with this project!

Open House Fundraiser

(By Rebekah Rudolph)

This last Saturday, September 27, was the annual Open House Day hosted by the Swiss Pantry in Belvidere, TN. We once again used it as an opportunity to do some fund-raising for Haiti.

First, of course, there was the yard sale, with items donated primarily from Watson’s Rental.  It was a large set-up again this year with a wide variety of stuff.  Miriam Rudolph and Sara Kelly took care of seeing to it all day from 7:00am to 3:00pm.

The yard sale
The yard sale
Miriam Rudolph and Sara Kelly
Miriam Rudolph and Sara Kelly

Right next to the yard sale was the apple butter cook-off. For several years now we have cooked apple butter over a fire in a large copper kettle that has been in the Rudolph family for generations.  It is about an eight hour process just to cook it down, with constant stirring, but the finished product is so worth it! Next to the kettle is our stand where we sell previously cooked and jarred apple butter and also pure honey from Michael’s bee hives that are here at home.

Making apple butter
Making apple butter
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Apple butter!
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The apple butter and honey stand.

This year, also, the Chris Beiler family, from the Believer’s Chapel in Tullahoma, did the annual BBQ stand, the entire proceeds of which went into completing the second story of the house in Haiti, so Michael and Breanna will have a place to live when they are married.  At the BBQ stand you can get an excellent lunch of either chicken or BBQ’D pulled pork and baked beans, cole slaw, dinner rolls, and your choice of soft drink, water, or sweet tea, or you can buy chicken and pork by the pound and take it home and share it (if it lasts that long).  The stand was serving from 10:00am to 3:00pm and was donations-only for the food, which was a step of faith, but the Lord blessed it and enough money was raised to complete the house to livability!

Poster board and information stand.
Poster board and information stand.
The food line
The food line
Food line
Food line
The wonderful volunteers!
The wonderful volunteers!

A huge thank-you to the Beilers and all the other volunteers who worked so hard to bring it all together! We were all exhausted by the end of the day, but it was good.  So come and join us next year!

-Rebekah Rudolph

Hello From My New Home

Hello to all of you who come to this blog, and have found nothing for a long time.  My last couple of months have been taken up with preparations for moving back to Haiti, and then moving down August 13.  I have been very busy since moving down, living in a very nice little house that is not finished yet.  I don’t have good internet up on the mountain, so posting is a problem.  I am in town now though, for the weekend, so here I am to catch you up on things.

Our house is in Grand Fond, or the Big Valley.  Actually, it is like the back of a very sway backed horse, or in the middle of the humps of a two hump camel. On opposing sides the mountains go up, and on the other two sides the mountain falls away.  It isn’t super steep, and it isn’t really a mountaintop, or a valley, or a hillside.  I hope my descriptions give you an idea of what it is like.  I will try to include some pictures if I have them with me.

This is what a normal day looks like for me.  I get up at 6:30, make breakfast and my coffee, then Michael and I eat and have our devotions.  The Haitian men he hires to work show up at 8.  I try to have Michael start the generator and charge the pressure tank with water before they come, so I can start laundry.  During the rainy season, which is now, I can only do two loads of laundry max in a day.  If I do more, it won’t dry before the afternoon rains.  I don’t need to do laundry every day, but if we have been out of the mountains for a week, or if it rains for a couple of days, the dirty wash piles up.  Then there are dishes to wash in my makeshift kitchen, and juice to squeeze for lunch.  (Haitian workers don’t expect variety, but it is customary to give them some kind of rice, some kind of sauce, and some kind of juice for lunch.)  Then the laundry needs hung out.  At 11, it is time to get the rice on, and the sauce made.  I don’t make typical Haitian sauce, but what I make has been well accepted.  At noon Michael comes in and we take the workers their food.  After lunch I do the dishes, then work on cleaning the house and windows, organizing, helping Michael if he needs me, baking, etc and maybe a half hour or so to rest and email.  Time flies till it is time to make supper.  We don’t eat till right after 6 because that is when the workers go home.  After supper, Michael finishes up his work for the day while I do the dishes, and then we shower with a bucket of water.  It is 8:30 or 9 by then, and we are ready to go to bed.  On Wednesdays, we try to keep the time to listen to a sermon in the evening.  It is a busy life, but so far has been good.  It was an adjustment for both of us to live in our own house with just each other to talk to and work with.  But by God’s grace we got the kinks worked out and now we are really enjoying being in our own home.

As of right now, we only have electric if the generator is running, and we only have running water in the bathroom sinks and toilet and the washer.  I am not complaining, it is kind of fun to see how good I can be at living without everything I was used to in the States.  I am glad for running water, for the first two weeks I had to have buckets of water carried in.  I will be glad for a shower which we will probably put in sometime in Oct. or Nov.  We have the cabinets for the kitchen, and Lord willing, my dad will come down in Oct. to install them, as well as set up the solar electric system.  Then I will have running water in the kitchen, and electric all the time!  So that is an overview of my life currently.  Things will change as we get the house further finished.  There will be more time, and I plan to start working on perfecting my Creole.

This past week we spent in Fond Doux.  My dad, Caleb Trent, and Larry Sherraden came down for a week of Pastor’s Conference.  I held another girl’s seminar, and Deb Vital and Brenda Clugston translated for me.  Deb was such a blessing to work with once again, and it was a pleasure getting to know and work with Brenda.  The girl’s class went fairly well.  Some of the girls were very attentive, and some didn’t pay much attention at all.  But I believe God was working in some of their hearts.

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Deb Vital translating

Deb Vital translating

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Brenda Clugston translating

Brenda Clugston translating

How well do you wash your hands?  "Glo Germ is fun"

How well do you wash your hands? “Glo Germ is fun”

Brenda taught them a game so she could learn their names better.  They all were laughing so hard by the time it was done!

Brenda taught them a game so she could learn their names better. They all were laughing so hard by the time it was done!

These next couple of weeks we will be working on getting things together and ready for the apartment to be built.  In two weeks a couple young men from our home church and my older brother are coming down to frame and roof the apartment.  Michael hopes to be married mid January, so the apartment must be ready to live in when he goes home for his wedding.  He and Breanna will live in the apartment so they have their own space.  I will live on the ground floor where a lot of the daily life things will happen.  I am enjoying setting up house keeping, it scratches an itch I’ve had for a while.  🙂

Well, I will add some pictures here if they will upload.  (They did!)

My kitchen for the time being.  It already looks a bit different, and will continue to change over time.

My kitchen for the time being.  It already looks a bit different, and will continue to change over time.

My room.  We will have bed frames after a while.  (Thank you, Papa, for the nice shelves!)

My room. We will have bed frames after a while. (Thank you, Papa, for the nice shelves!)

The tree was making a huge mess on the roof and putting junk in the rain water we catch.  So we topped it.  Wilmon did the chopping, Michael directed the fall so it wouldn't smash the fence or any windows.

The tree was making a huge mess on the roof and putting junk in the rain water we catch. So we topped it. Wilmon did the chopping, and Michael directed the fall so it wouldn’t smash the fence or any windows.

This corn is from our garden.  We roasted it, and will have it ground for cornmeal.  Roasting it kills the bugs so we can store it, and it gives it wonderful flavor!  Anyone want cornmeal pancakes?

This corn is from our garden. There is a lot more!  We are roasting it, and will have it ground for cornmeal. Roasting it kills the bugs so we can store it, and gives it wonderful flavor! Anyone want cornmeal pancakes?

Pouring the slab on the roof to make the apartment floor level.  The roof was sloped to collect rain water, thus the need to level it.

Pouring the slab on the roof to make the apartment floor level. The roof was sloped to collect rain water, thus the need to level it.

The rest of the crew

The rest of the crew

Thank you to all the "blan"s who gave us their time and energy!

Thank you to all the ‘blan’s who gave us their time and energy!

Our cousin, Don, who helped Michael do the hard part - finishing.

Our cousin, Don, who helped Michael do the hard part – finishing.  It is a huge blessing to have him and his family close by!

We stopped on the trail so Michael could help a moto driver fix his broken chain.  The sun was setting, and the windshield of the Bobcat caught the rays like this.  with the drops of rain, I couldn't resist getting out my camera!

We stopped on the trail so Michael could help a moto driver fix his broken chain. The sun was setting, and the windshield of the Bobcat caught the rays like this. with the drops of rain, I couldn’t resist getting out my camera!

Thank you for your continued interest and prayers!  We need the grace of God to continue with the work here.

God bless you!

 

 

A Poem and Pictures…

This poem, written by Gospel to Haiti staff, was posted on the GTH clinic blog this past week.  On the 3 week trip to Haiti hosted by AFH,  the medical research team of doctors and students from the University of Chattanooga spent a couple of days in Ailegue providing some teaching and lectures for the nurses and staff serving there.

The Professors Have Arrived, Tip Your Hats!

Here they stand, Doctors in a row.
Each came to teach us the things we don’t know.
We spent hours with notebooks and meds
Or using the Ultrasound to measure baby heads.
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Then, when they left, we prayed for good minds
To soak up all the lectures, and memorize the finds.
We slept on the info, and awoke to the sun,
A church lady in labor, and bandages undone.
This baby arrived fine, all pudgy and pink
We locked up the clinic, and went home for a drink.
Amidst all this hubbub, our hearts stop to bless
Our God, and, these doctors who came to teach us!
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Wanting to bless the world with what God has given us, and giving a big THANK-YOU to Michael for making this happen!
– the Ahlege team

A Blessed Time

Breanna and I got back from Haiti late Tuesday night.  Our time there is now a memory, and a very good one!  We spent a day and a half at the beginning of the week helping Michael finish up the last few things for the team, and we worked on the never ending project of repairing and servicing the truck.   Wednesday, the rest of the team flew in, and we spent the night at CAM.

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Vita Power, Jerry and Debbie Power, Emma Power, Michael, Jean Louis Ytler, Breanna Keller, Caleb Trent, me, Jean Harold

Early the next morning we headed north.  Two hours on the best paved road in Haiti took us to the hot, dirty city of Gonaives.  There might be 5 trees in the entire city… not really, but there are very few!  We stopped there to pick up the Haitian coordinator and the cook, with the food we would need.  They gave us lunch, and it was some of the best fried fish I’ve ever had!  We loaded back up and headed out, leaving the pavement for a rough gravel road.  Traveling north, we left the normal green trees and scraggly bushes and grass, and instead the cactus trees and other desert plants took up the job of giving the landscape color.

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We came over the top of a curve, and there lay a gorgeous line of coast, white rocks with teal and blue waters.  It was one of the prettiest coastlines I think I’ve seen!  Pictures can’t do it justice.

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We traveled along the coast for a couple of hours, and it was so hot!  The cactus gave way to a thorny brushy plant called “barren”.  The land really was barren. NO GRASS.  Not even cactus.  The land was dirt and “barren” bushes and little else.  There are people who live in this barren place, I don’t know how.  The sea water sometimes covers the land, so it is too salty to grow anything.  The residents of the area do use the “barren” trees to make charcoal, and I guess that is how they survive.  Further on, there are the salt flats.   I think it is fascinating!  They dig these shallow areas out and heap the dirt around the edge.  Then they channel in sea water, build a dam, and allow the sun to do the work of evaporating the water.  As the water leaves, the salt crystallizes around the edges.  Sometimes I think they let in sea water several times before they harvest the salt.  Anyway, somehow they gather up the salt crystals, and sell it throughout Haiti.  I don’t know if they refined any of it, but I do know I have seen salt being used that looks like it came straight from the salt flats.

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(Please excuse the cracked windshield.  Michael needs $400 to get it replaced.)

(Please excuse the cracked windshield. Michael would need $400 to get it replaced.) 🙂

Anyway, we left that behind, and headed into the northern mountains.  Being the beginning of rainy season, there were clouds that gave welcome relief from the sun.  The vegetation soon became the normal tropical mix, and cresting a mountain we saw a very green valley.  We arrived at our destination of Fourby within 15 minutes, and unloaded our luggage at the Pastor’s house.  We were sorry to learn he was in FL at the time, I’m not sure why.  We had time that evening to go to the church building to set up the clinic.  The next morning we got to the chapel and were surprised to only see a few people around.  Normally, the seating area would be packed.  Michael talked to the local leaders and found out that the area had only one market day a week – Friday.  So he had a person go to the market with a megaphone and announce the clinic.  People came a few at a time throughout the entire day, and I think we saw over 50.  It was nice to have the time for the doctors to talk to each person, share the Gospel and pray with them.  It was so nice to be able to give people their medicine and make sure they understood it.  I had taken along some papers with verses on one side and a health topic on the other.  It was fun to give them to the patients, and hear them walk off reading aloud.

Debbie worked in the pharmacy with me.  She was such a huge blessing and help!

Debbie worked in the pharmacy with me. She was such a huge blessing and help!

Jerry seeing patients with Wilmon as translator.

Jerry seeing patients with Wilmon as translator.

One older gentleman was carried in, almost dead.  Literally.  The doctors started an IV, and gave him some high-powered antibiotics.  They learned he had been healthy 9 days earlier, then became ill and got weaker, couldn’t eat etc.  We kept him all day, and in a couple of hours he had started to show signs of improvement.  I’m not sure when he went home, whether it was that night or the next morning.  We heard Sunday morning that he was starting to eat again!  Praise the Lord for allowing him to respond favorably to the medications!  I’m sure that Caleb and Michael shared the Gospel with him and his  family.  (I was in a separate building in the pharmacy, so I don’t  know exactly what went on.)

Friday night we planned to have a church service, but it poured rain in the early evening preventing anyone from coming out.  We went to bed, and slept well except for Michael.  There was a batch of kittens where we were staying, and one was crawling all over him, and crying.  After attempting to make it leave, he simply rested his foot on it and it settled down and started purring.  Then they both went to sleep and had a good night. 🙂

Saturday was busier, we had a little over 100 patients.  Again, we had more time than usual to talk with people.  There was one girl who came in with something that we have never seen before, at least to my knowledge.  Dr. Caleb asked her what her problem was, and she said, “I eat rocks.  Everyone laughs at me because I eat rocks.  I have eaten them since I was a small girl, but I don’t want to eat rocks.”  She had with her one of the rocks that she gnaws on, and it was a type of clay, and you could see the mineral crystals in it.  The medical name for this type of rock/clay/dirt that people sometimes eat is “pika”.  Most of the time it is a lack of vitamins and minerals in the diet that causes the person to want to eat rocks or dirt that have trace amounts of minerals in them.  We gave that girl a lot of all the vitamins and iron and folic acid that we had, with very clear instruction that SHE had to want to stop eating the rocks enough to break her habit.  It is very hard for someone who eats pika to stop.  It is such a habit to them, that they can crave it even after the need for vitamins and minerals has been taken care of.

The "pika" rock

The “pika” rock

The girl listening to instructions.  It was a matter important enough for Michael to to the translating/talking.

The girl listening to instructions. It was a matter important enough for Michael to do the translating/talking for Caleb.

There was a very cute little boy who was brought in, he didn’t have anything the matter with him as far as I can remember.  He was such a jolly fellow, with the sweetest smile, but I didn’t have time to do more than snap his picture.  Unfortunately for you, he wasn’t smiling at the moment.

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Three little girls who got new dresses thanks to Gary Pfeifer and the folks from his church!

Three little girls who got new dresses thanks to Gary Pfeifer and the folks from his church!

That evening we heard that since there had been no meeting the previous evening, the people of the area didn’t know that there would be one this evening.  We decided to go up to the church anyway, and sing awhile and see if anyone showed up.  Our translators went along, and the people who lived at the house we were staying in.  We sang some songs in English, then the Haitians sang a couple in Creole.  Then we sang one together, English and Creole to the same tune.  It was beautiful!  The children of God worshiping together, His love in our hearts overcoming the language barrier.  More people came, and Caleb preached a beautiful message relating to the crucified and risen Savior.

Sunday was another smaller than normal group, there was a death in the community and many were at the wake.  (It was man who had tried to find help in witchcraft.)  Jerry preached a very lovely message on Christ, and Caleb followed it up with some very pertinent remarks and questions that ended up being a message in itself!  It was a very refreshing service to me.   We ate a quick lunch and headed back to Port.  Across the desert that was muddy now from a heavy rain, through the salty land.  The cactus was beautiful, clean from the rain, and starting it’s blooming.  When we got to the place where the ocean was just a few yards off the road, we stopped for a short break.  The water was polluted enough to make you feel sticky, even though (or maybe because of it) it was a beautiful intense teal blue.  Later at the top of a hill we stopped for a few pictures with the white coast and blue waters for a backdrop.  The sun was blazing, hence the squinched up faces.  🙂

Jerry and his family

Jerry and his family

As we neared Port, we drove through several rara’s.  Easter is a big time to the Haitian people, a lot like Mardi Gras.  The wickedness and sensuality that is normally suppressed to a degree, is put on full display and made a party of on Easter Sunday.  It is heartbreaking to see it.  May God help us to share the Gospel with those who are dead in their sins before it is too late for them to hear the call of Christ!

Monday we went to Mirebalais with one of our oldest friends in Haiti, Pastor Urlich.  The Artibonite river flows though that region and it is one of the most fertile spots in all of Haiti.  It was so beautiful, and such a stark contrast to the barrenness of the desert/salt regions in the north that we just had come through.  After about 2 hours, we turned onto a foot path, and drove into the hills.  It was muddy because of the night’s rain, so we got down and walked while Michael navigated the truck along the hillside.  After a few minutes we came to a steep decline with a sharp curve and a river at the bottom.  There was some discussion on whether or not it was possible to get back up if he went down, and the decision was made to not try it.  Beings that the plan had been to drive the whole way in, there was no crowd to help carry the buckets.  So we “blans” took what we could carry and started for the church house on the opposite hillside.  It was about 10-15 minute walk.  Not at all bad, except for the mud.  My feet slipped and slid in my flip-flops till I was sure they were going to tear.  I only had them to wear, so, I did what a Haitian does.  I took them off and went barefoot.  It made me see that aspect of the Haitians lives in a much clearer way.  Where most people go barefoot, I always wear flip-flops.  I don’t like my feet unprotected on the bottom, in fact I have a strong aversion to it.  But the Haitians have to go barefoot a lot.  They only have one pair of shoes or flip-flops, and can’t afford to have them destroyed by the mud.  So they carry their shoes, and that morning I joined them in the act and understood another aspect of their lives in a new way.  I did clean them off though to wear in the clinic!  I drew the line at that.

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We had another smaller than normal day.  It was good though, I am really glad it was that way.  I guess I thought subconsciously that if we didn’t see a hundred or two people, it wasn’t as good of a trip.  But that isn’t necessarily so.  The time spent with each individual, sharing the Gospel, praying, encouraging, is even more important than taking care of two hundred physical ills.  Sometimes we lose sight of the real reason we are in the mountains holding clinic, when there are hundreds of people gathered and the individual is lost in the crowd.  We go to spread the Gospel, and it is the individual that needs to hear.  Caleb was able to share the Gospel with a young man who was an unbeliever and knew it.  I believe that God was convicting him of his sin, he had that look on his face.  Please pray for him that he would turn to the one and only Savior!

Michael and Caleb

Michael and Caleb

Breanna was so much fun to work with, and my other huge help in the pharmacy!

Breanna was so much fun to work with, and my other huge help in the pharmacy!

We headed back to CAM mid afternoon.  That evening, just as we had finished getting through the shower and were sitting around talking about the trip, Michael got a call from some of our missionary friends who live several hours from Port.  Their son had fallen earlier in the week and broken his arm.  The doctor that set his arm took X-rays that were to be shown to an orthopedic doctor.  Well, that doctor took a short look and said “It’s fine.”  The parents were concerned though, because the bones were obviously not straight in the X-rays.  “Would Caleb take a look at the X-rays and maybe be able to set the arm straighter?”  They emailed the X-rays, and it was true, the arm needed reset.  Caleb agreed to try if they wanted to come into Port yet that night, as he was flying home in the morning.  They arrived at midnight, and the boy was laid sleeping on the kitchen table.  With some IV medication and lots of prayer, Caleb set to work straightening the crooked bones.  With only his fingers to “see” with, an hour later he had done his best and recast the arm.  The next day, new X-rays were taken, and Praise the Lord the bones were straight!  The one break was hardly visible I heard!

We all woke from the short night, and quickly finished packing up.  Caleb was taken to the airport, and the Power family was dropped off with one of our Haitian friends who was taking them sight-seeing for the day.  Michael dropped us girls off at the airport about an hour or so later, and headed out of town.

The trip was over, but the memories remain.  It was a good team, and God blessed us with each other.  Pray with me that the seeds of truth that were sown in the hearts of the people we met would grow and bear fruit.  May the Kingdom of God grow in the country of Haiti!

March Update

The roof is poured and curing!

Wednesday, March 19, Philip and Timothy Rudolph went to Haiti to help Michael finish the framing, pour concrete in the block walls, wire the house for electricity, and pour the roof.

On Thursday and Friday, they were able to complete all they needed to finish in order to pour the roof on Saturday. The Lord blessed their efforts, the weather was beautiful, and everything else went well!

Below are some pictures and details of Saturday, “Concrete Pouring Day”.

 Approximately 60 Haitian men helped fill buckets and carry concrete up the ramp to the roof.

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A lot of rebar in this roof for earthquake protection!  Several friends from other missions in Haiti helped with this project.  

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A big thank you to everyone who gave so generously of their time, energy and funding.  May the Lord bless you.  Continue to pray for Aid for Haiti as we continue to do the work we have been called to do.  There is still much more work to do.  We are grateful for your continued support and interest.

Please pray specifically for Michael’s healing as he lost some skin on his arms due to working with so much concrete.

 

The Roof is Done!

roofThe roof is poured!  They got going at 6 this morning, and were finished with the 15 yards of concrete by noon.  A big thank you to all the volunteers from the States and other missions in Haiti.  The Haitian crew was indispensable as well, and my dad said it was great to see 60 men work together as a team.   Thank you to each one who prayed for them and this project.  God has been so good to us, and all the glory goes to Him!

I may be able to post more pictures after my dad returns, unless they were too busy to take any others!