Summer, Summer, Summer

Summer, Summer, Summer 

It has been a busy summer full of teams and camps, but it has been a great and productive time. We are so thankful for all the groups that came and joined us this summer and for their hands and feet as we work together with the Haitian people. 

.In Mid- June, we had a medical team from Tupelo, MS that did mobile clinics and also worked in a permanent clinic in Caberet. They brought so much medication with them which was a huge blessing. They were able to spend a morning at a orphanage doing health checks on the kids and then we were blessed to be able to give a personalized gift bag to each child with new crocks, clothes, and toiletries, ect., sent by a wonderful church in Worland, WY. The kids were very excited!! 

                                                                                                                                                 Later In June, we had a great team from New Work Fellowship join us for a sports camp for about 100 Haitian youth from several youth groups in our area. It was a great week of learning about the armor of God and how to deal with the spiritual battles these kids face every day living here. They also had a great time learning and playing soccer, basketball, and volleyball as part of the camp.                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

As the summer progressed, we had more teams and more camps- each unique depending on the team and their mission. Whether doing feeding programs, VBS, work projects, well repair, mechanic work-whatever needed to be done, we find people willing to help.

They are also willing to to share their love with

Chris leading Mens Devotion in the mornings. 

the Haitian people through hugs, smiles, and helping in whatever way necessary.

Sheryl and a team member working at the clinic. 

We are very thankful for all of our volunteers
and all the skills and supplies they bring to us. We couldn't accomplish all that happens here just with the permanent staff we have.

We are also so thankful that we have a new family, Barrett and Carrie Todd and their 4 children joining us next week! The Lord has abundantly blessed their support raising and they are able to come as permanent staff. They spent 3 months with us last fall, so they have an idea of what life is like here.
                                                                  The clinic has been very busy over these past months. As more and more people have moved into the area, we have experienced more patients and unfortunately, more burns.
We have had many helping hands, both Haitian and American, and this has been a great help. there is no way Sheryl could do the work alone.
 Just last week, Chris and David took a team up the mountain to look at a project and on the way down came upon a very serious car accident. The team was able to get the women extricated from the car (it had rolled and they were upside down). They grabbed towels and their own shirts to stem the bleeding and we transported two critically injured women to Doctors without Borders. We know it is never a coincidence that the Lord has us right where we need to be and while we never know how He will use us here in a day, we always want to be ready for whatever that is. Thankfully, the women both knew the Lord and we able to pray with them and for them as we drove to the hospital.

Sheryl seeing a young burned girl for her first visit.

Pray that we will continue strong in all the Lord has for us and we listen to His voice as we work.

School begins in two weeks, and we will have over 300
children back in our 3 schools in the village. Pray for our directors and teachers as they begin a new year-that they concentrate first on the spiritual life of all the children and second on their academics. We want the love of the Lord to shine through in our schools and in all we do here.