Greeetings from Haiti!!

This is another “late” post.  I am so sorry for not keeping up with these.  I have been sending out email updates quite often, but don’t get them transferred to here.  Please have patience with me.  

At present we have a team at the dorm staying for the whole month.  Dr. Bibiana has returned and is doing teachings and also going out into the countryside to help at other places she has started here.  She and her husband, Sandy, are such a blessing. We are very thankful to be able to turn the dorm over to her for these teachings.
And we have another former missionary couple staying with us here at the house.  They are here to visit all their friends and co-workers from their time here.  It is such a blessing for us to have them with us.  Not sure if we should, but we are praying the Lord will move them to return.  They are really missed by so many!!!


Don and I are doing fine, medically now.  Don has his pacemaker and he has slowed down, but that doesn’t change our ministry a whole lot.  I was able to complete 28 more buckets for our “Bucket Ministry”.  Vero and Marco took them out and went to some areas they had not been before, but knew the needs were so great.  I’ll include some pictures here for you.  

These first two pictures are of some older gals out in the country.  They have families, but not much to feed them.  As I have Vero and Marco distribute, I don't get to talk to people who get these, but find out their stories, as I can.  

This gal has not walked for the last couple of years.  And is limited in what she can do.  Vero said she was really happy to get the bucket and help her family.

 That gal on the right is something else.  Has nothing, but sure has a wonderful smile. She is wearing a dress Vero had taken to her a while ago.  She really tells the story of many ~ barefoot, extremely poor, but happy in Jesus, and how He helps her.

 This fellow was closer to town, but unsuccessful in finding a job to support his family.  He thanked Vero and Marco that he can at least feed his family now.

 This is a sad story.  Vero used to see this young guy way out in the country.  His mom couldn't feed him, so sent him to an aunt.  But when she leaves in the morning, she puts him out on the street till she comes home.  No food or any place to stay, he just wanders.  He was excited he had food and could find a place to make some for himself.

There are many more stories and a lot in more difficult situations.  Vero isn't real comfortable getting photos in some of the areas though.  So, we are thankful for the ones she has.



English Bible Fellowship has been going on.  It’s now here in our living room, since our group is a bit smaller.  But it’s been great too.  We have a much more open time, with questions and sharing together.  Enoch has been such a blessing to lead it all.  This last Sunday we had the continuation of some heavy rains, and we knew we may not have many Haitians attending.  But we still had our meeting and it was wonderful.  We had Sandy & Bibiana (former missionaries), also a doctor from Argentina was with them.  And we had Tom and Helen (former missionaries), too.  And as an added blessing we had Pastor Paul Romeus here.  He is a Haitian, but lives in Fort Pierce now. (His wife and I are prayer partners, and I miss having her here.)  So we had a lot of singing, prayers and sharing.  It was wonderful.  


In my next post I will share a bit with you about another group who had come one afternoon to share the ministry they have in Haiti, with us.  As I always try to do, I would ask you to keep Missionary Flights, International in your prayers.  They are in need of some dedicated pilots to help fly the DC-3’s.  And I think there are other positions they need help in filling, too.  I may not be at the airport working with them, but I do keep busy with things for MFI here at home.  And I’m very thankful for Vero being my replacement at the airport.  She has taken on a lot!  So, keep her in prayer too.  And keep her daughter in prayer.  Abbie is doing wonderful in school.  She is now a freshman and still determined to keep a high grade point average.  


Okay, for now, I’ll close out and thank you for being there for us.  And I’ll close with a verse that both the US and Haiti Christians need to keep in mind:  Second Chronicles 7: 14, “if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”   Blessings!!