Our Day with out Teams

We have been in Haiti almost a month. It only seems like a week. Things have been very busy with teams being here from the time we arrived on the 10th until Thursday the 31st of March. Bonnie left yesterday morning. So we are officially the only IPHC Blancs (white people) in Haiti until Phillip returns on Tuesday.


We have settled into the master bedroom in the mission apartment. Thank you Lord for air conditioning! At least at night so we can sleep well. We are getting into the groove of a routine until the next team arrives on the 9th. My house work is done for the morning, kitchen and bathroom cleaned with floors swept and mopped. Roger is working on the mission vehicles and some plumbing issues for the water tanks. Outside of the apartment, men are working on the church here on the compound. It is amazing! They do most all the work without the aid of machines. They are sifting rock out of the sand with a handmade sifter and mixing the cement by hand as well. There is a mixer but it is at another site right now. They are working very hard. The dedication of the new building is scheduled for the end of May. We will be privileged to be a part of it.

Communication is an issue. We are learning a few words. Don’t know how to spell them correctly but I do know bali is broom, mop bali is sweeping, dlo is water and doli is wash. Also merci senyer is Thank you Lord. Bon jour is good morning, bon swa is good afternoon and komo yea is how are you. Komo ou relay means what is your name. Jezi is Jesus. Pastor Auslen, who is one of the pastors here at Bon Repo, has offered to help Roger and I learn Kreole after this next team leaves. That will be such a blessing! Pastor Auslen is a very good man. He has helped us as an interpreter with the teams that have been here. He has also been a missionary himself to the Bahamas a few years ago.

I do have to tell some of what happened in our clinic at Cabaret the last two weeks. The lady who cooks for the school children there had been bitten behind her knee by some thing, we were never clear on what. But she had what appeared to be severely infected wounds behind both her knees. She was in extreme pain and could barely walk. We cleaned the wounds, put antibiotic cream on them and dressed them. They next day they were not any better. We prayed and I was impressed by the Spirit to use Silvadene cream instead of the antibiotic cream. It is mainly used on burn patients but I had seen it used on one of our cancer patients who had infected legs. It was amazing! Each day there was marked improvement and by the end of one week they were completely healed! She was dancing around and praising God for her healing. We rejoiced with her.

There was also an 80 year old lady who had severe blood pressure issues and also apparently had congestive heart failure. She did not know Christ and most likely does not have long here on earth. Bonnie explained Jesus to her through Pastor Ephesian another of our interpreters, and he lead her to Christ. The change in her facial expression when she received Christ was beautiful to see. This is what I long to see more of.

So only two more months left and then we return home to the States. And my prayer is Lord mold and shape the clay that is Roger and I so we can be of more use to You and Your kingdom than we ever dreamed possible.