The
Past few months in Haiti
1.
Friends come and friends go
2. R&R in
Boone
3. Starting a
garden
4. Finding a
tutor for beach kids
5. Work, Work,
Work
6. Community
Kid’s Soccer League
7.
Helping with bible lessons for beach kids
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Let’s see who has left: Jessica, Charles and
Debbie, Evy, Paul, Michael, Andrew, Darin, Brianna, Andrea and Blaine. Here are the arrivals: Paul, Michael, Andrew,
Darin (yes the same ones that left came back a few weeks later), Brianna (came
back 2 months later), Viviane, Pamela, Drew, Rian, Rebecca, Jiesha, Chris. It is hard to see so much change. To become friends with someone and then they
are gone. I am very thankful for the
friendships of those departed and look forward for the friendships to come.
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R&R was great. Family.
Friends. Great food. We celebrated 10 years of marriage. We vacationed at home for our
anniversary! When we got back to Haiti
we felt like we needed a vacation from our vacation!
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Haiti is
blessed to have constant sunshine. Because
of this we brought veggie seeds with us when we first came. I have finally gotten around to starting a
garden after eight months. Decided to
start out small and see how it goes. It
is a 3’ by 7’ raised bed vegetable garden.
Had to do everything by hand and now my body is very sore. Plus the ants did not appreciate me digging
in their homes and I have the bites all over my feet as proof. Ants are amazing creatures, but I do not like
them! Once the soil dries out the
planting will begin. I pray that this
garden produces fruit! After only 1 week
seeds are already sprouting. Exciting!
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We have been reading Pilgrim’s Progress in
Creole. Robert had some of the older
beach kids read to him one night. It
took one 30 minutes to read one page.
Robert had to teach them about different Creole contractions. We were stunned. The school year starts in October. We interviewed a couple of local teachers
about tutoring 4 of the beach kids. The
plan is to have the tutor meet with each kid three times a week for an hour
each time. Pray that the children are
motivated and that the tutor is able to teach.
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Work, work, work. No explanation needed. Very thankful to have the weekends off!
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Francois, heavy equipment operator with Robert,
has a soccer league in the surrounding community. This is the second year and the players love
it. The whole community comes out to
watch. Several of the beach kids are on
teams, so we go watch their games to support them. These kids love Robert. One kid, Gladson, will look at Robert after
each play to see if he was watching. We
really enjoy going to these games. It is
just as much fun to watch the spectators as it is to watch the players. When their team scores the sideline erupts in
cheering. Play stops as everyone celebrates. Never a dull moment at these games.
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We were able to help another couple for two
Saturdays with bible lessons for some of the beach kids. We taught the story of Shadrach, Meshach and
Abednego. At each lesson, breakfast is
served, they retell last week’s story and then the new lesson is taught. They are able to retell all the details. After each bible lesson they teach them a
skill or play a game with the kids. We
played soccer with a basketball on the helipad.
The kids will play soccer with just about any round ball. This was a lot of fun and we hope to help out
more in the future.
There is so much that goes on in
day to day life here. It is hard to pick
out certain things to talk about and not repeat yourself. Please pray for continued energy and
encouragement for all SP workers.
