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Church at LaBousse:
We are off to paint this morning. More later (maybe much later).
Please pray for Maria and Sandy, who are suffering from sinus headaches and other pains. Inconvenient bother!
We just prayed as a group for Don Harvey. He will be in our thoughts today.
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PM - We are reading your messages here as a group, and we really appreciate them. Thank you.
Most of us woke up about 4:30 this morning as the roosters announced false dawn. We laid there, relishing the cool breeze. We had banana bread and coconut bread for breakfast. Our suitcases with our food, etc. etc. may arrive today.
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Today we went five miles east of Bruce's to paint a pastor's house in LaBousse. This team can paint! I am not sure we ever will again when we return! Coat after coat went into concrete and wood. We will be back tomorrow to put finishing touches on the central room and some door frames, then we will be painting the outside of the house. We do not have to worry about running out of work, or doing busy work. Bruce has job after job lined up here.
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I have not been able to take many pictures -- it takes two hands to hold onto the truck, but Kester has. The rest of the time, our hands are occuped with work. We have learned Bruce is an excellent driver, and that Land Rovers are incredibly tough!
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Deb is an excellent cook and we are looking forward to dinner, after lasagne, green beans, and lemon chiffon cake last night.
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Dinner tonight was chicken and rice, with Haitian garlic bread, and fruit salad with Haitian mangoes on the side for dessert. Delectable! We sat and learned from Bruce for about an hour after supper. He read us some Bible verses and prayed with us (we are doing a lot of praying here - forgive me if I do not report it all). Speaking of prayer - pray for our digestive systems, some of us may have picked up a bug, or maybe it is the newness of this.
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We note that many of the Haitians work, and they work HARD. Their return is that they remain alive. It is a polite society, but the rules are very different than ours. The richness they have is in their belief in the afterlife and in the diginity they posess in their lives in Christ.
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You would be proud of our kids! They work without ceasing except when they are talking to the Haitians. Mason expecially is a good interactor with the locals (he knows French). Tyler was a hero yesterday, working by himself for most of the day with a grinder - an intense and filthy job. Bruce seems to be happy with our work. We realized we are the FIRST team from DPC, because Josh Levy came with a Presbytery group. Hopefully we will not be the last (hear that, Tufties and Marshalls?).
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There was a soccer game and festival of the patron saint at the Catholic church up the road last night, very loud and boistrous. They shut it down a bit after nine, though. Thank God for sweet refreshing sleep!
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Thank you all for your posts here; everyone gathers around, and I read them aloud. It reminds some of us of times around the radio in days past.
That's all for day 2.
9 comments:
Hope you all have a good day and that Maria and Sandy are feeling better.
Now we know who we can call on to paint our church the next time we need that done. You know how things are done at DPC. Once we find out what a person can do.......we remember that and call on them when help is needed!
The church smells like hamburgers right now! The cooking team for the kids' feeding program is serving that for lunch today. They served about 25 hungry youth yesterday. They are anticipating more as word goes out as to the good meals being served.
Take care!
Sorry Sandi - you know I can't let this opprtunity go by - so -
Suck it up Chic!!!
We are praying for you and Maria and positive you will be better soon. This morning my prayers covered rusty nails, creepy crawlies and things that go bump in the night - along with a thankful heart for your safe arrival. I will now add sinus headaches to the list.
Stay safe
Verni
Well you get to know who your real friends are when one teases you with the delicious aromas of an all-beef hamburger, grilled crispy brown around the edges, dripping with melted American cheese and for one, a spot of ketchup … and the other talks to you about creepy crawlies! I just pray you are not looking into a bowl of boiled white rice at the moment! Thinking about our mission trip on the Eastern Shore and desperately missing the camaraderie. With you in spirit and song….Hugs, Iris
We are praying that all of you are feeling better and that today's ministry activities go well.
Don H. will have his open heart surgery tomorrow morning. He is in good spirits today and has just about taken over running the hospital--all with great humor, I might add.
Please pray for John and Bety M. family. John and Betty's son, Steve, died today.
Love you and miss you all. Deborah
Hola, de casualidad pase por tu blog, y me parecio lleno de vida, creativo y original ...
Si tienes tiempo y ganas me gustaria que pasaras por el mio, saludos!!
Luis
Thank you for the good reports from the last two days. We miss all of you very much.
May you experience God's peace and rest this evening.
I have lots of painting that the famous Haiti painters can do upon your return! (Kidding)
Are you singing as you work? Love, Deborah
Mrs. Murawski,
I hope that you have a fun trip! I hope that you are safe.
Love,
Erica
Hello to all! Tonight I prayed too late, but I hope that God cannot tell time. My thoughts are with you often and I am trying to visualize what your surroundings might look like. Maria and Sandy, so sorry that you are under the weather. It is such a major change in climate and the pressure of traveling combined, will lessen your usual well-being. Please take your vitamins to build up resistance. Thank you for keeping us abreast of your activities. I treasure it. I send my love and prayers to you all, Anneliese
Anneliese is not anonymous, but is technically challenged.
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