This has been a busy month. This past week we helped with Vacation Bible School. They were in two different locations. Around 300 kids attended. Blonket where Global Outreach built a school and drilled a well was the first one. They handed out cards and registered kids to keep the number around 100.
The second one was at a church Shakina. This is also a church that GO built. It had to have repairs from the earthquake. This week the team painted the walls. It holds over 1000 people. They had two Bible schools there this week. One was in the morning for kids 8 -11 and the one in the afternoon was for teenagers.
The last day they gave the invitation to accept Christ.
Anouse one of the Haitian workers and Glen had this conversation.
Glen asked " How many teenagers accepted Christ today." Anouse said "Too Many"
Glen corrected his English and said "There can never be to many"
Anouse said. It was too many to count. There were about 45 teenagers that accepted Christ yesterday.

Gods Birthday

Yesterday was one of the holidays celebrated in Haiti. It was Gods Birthday. The bank, schools and business were closed. So many things are different here than in the USA. They have 44 holidays at least a year.


We have a team here this week from Tennessee. There are 3 women and 8 men. They have helped us to paint the clinic and today are painting a house in the village. They have ran electrical wire and are working on plumbing in the new addition to the clinic. It will be exciting when we get everything finished in the clinic.


We had several new burns today. One was a 5 month old baby who pulled a pot of water over on himself.


Glen has been out with the well fixing truck all week. He likes going with them. He did the Grand Moun program on Monday. He likes greeting and hugging all the older people. I think that it reminds him of Greeting at Church and he loved doing that.


Judy and David were at a church in Bon Repo Sunday. Last year at this time they Baptised 100 people and this year they have baptised over 24o. What a growing church. It is neat to see the work of God in this country. We have had workers and people that come to the clinic who have been on prayer retreats. It is great to hear them pray.

time flys in Haiti

Glen and I were talking tonight that we have almost been here the 3 months that we were here last year. We are not ready to go home and glad that this year we will not be going home at this time. I can't believe that it has been a month since I last wrote as May is about finished.
I will give you the highlights of the last month.

1. Seeing a man come to accept Jesus in our Clinic and get a Bible.
2. Seeing many burns heal. We have had some bad ones this past month. One month ago we had a lady come to the clinic who had been in a fight with a neighbor who threw hot oil on her back. She has healed all except upper left 1/4 of her back. We had a 2 year old who backed into a pan of water and was burned all the way down her back and legs. She just has a few small spots left to heal.
3. The new addition to the burn clinic is coming along. It will be helpful to have more than one place that we can treat patients. The structure is up and they are working on the outside walls.
4. Glen and I are both learning some Creole. I am taking classes.
5. Letters,emails, and phone calls from friends and family.
6. Glen is working with the Grand Moun program that supplies some food to 62 older haitians each Monday. He is able to hug them and this week he even had one on them kiss him. That helps as he misses greeting at our church in the states.
7. Attending church. We have been to several different ones this month. Some the entire service is in Creole. Some are in English. Meeting people at the churches.
8. Glen having sucess fixing so many things that he had never seen before.

please pray with us for
1. Strength and energy.
2. Ears to hear Creole and mouths that pronounce it correctly.
3. Making new friends.
4. Wisdom as we treat people in the clinic and that others will come to the Lord.
Thanks so much Glen and Linda

Life in Haiti

This week has been busy. We started with a Joyful Easter. We went to PAP to the English speaking church. Christ is Risen Indeed was the theme. It was packed. Then home for Easter dinner with Chris and Sheryl and Josh Brumley. We even had Ham. Thanks to our friends Kevin and Susan. The evening was finished after our naps with a worship service with Samaritians Purse, (SP) Great day.
Monday began at 0600 with laborers arriving for a cement pour on the new addition to the clinic roof. It took about 15 as they formed a bucket brigade to pass buckets of cement that they had mixed on the ground. They worked until finished. So Chris has had to spray it with water each day to keep it so that it hardens with out cracking. Different than in the states, We had clinic on Monday which was very busy. Then Tuesday is lighter usually. We had at least 5 new burns and serveral other patients. Glen went out to fix 2 wells that had broken. One well had gravel in it as the kids like to push little rocks down the only small hole on the pump and it wears a hole in the well and it quits,
Then the other things that have broken this week. Chris car is in PAP waiting to find parts as the transmission went down. We have taken our car in 3 times to see if they can fix the intermittant air conditioning. Chris and Sheryls airconditioner went down and the freezer on their refrig quit. Our freezer started beeping last night. The ice machine quit this week. Please pray for these things as they are all things that we need to work.
Today we go to PAP to work at AGAPE which is where they fly our mail in.
Pray for safe travel as it is always a pray situation when you travel in this country.
I am taking Creole classes. Please pray that I will retain what I learn.
I need to go we just had a new burn come in . Love Glen and Linda

We are in Haiti

We arrived in Haiti on March 16. The first few days were putting away things although a team had unboxed and put away all of the things that we shipped on the container. We were tired. We are beginning to adjust and get back our energy.
We started on Monday to work as Glen had alot of jobs waiting for him to get done.
I started in the burn clinic but since then have helped in several other clinics ran by North Carolina Rescue. They were so encouraging as they came over and prayed for us tonight. What a great group. They have teams coming each week. They do medical and building.
Then we had to say goodby to our good friends Kevin and Susan Bruns and their children. They left to move back to the States on April 1. We will miss them.
Before Susan left she taught me how to do the monthly reports but lucky for me they are on Quicken which is a program that I know so that helped.
Today Glen went in to PAP to pickup our car and get parts with David Heady. He is doing well with his knee replacement. He has been helping to haul sand and gravel to the new houses that are being built in Titiyan.
I helped a lady who had brought material to make new curtains and bed covers for 2 rooms in the vistor quarters. It was lots of fun except trying to keep the sewing machines running.
We are on our 3rd team since we arrived. They are fun and each one has its own personality. It has been great to see how the week goes for them. We have done some things with them like going up the mountain to see the childrens puppet program. It was great. We went to church in PAP last week and went out to eat at Dominos which is the only fast food place in Haiti.
So just know that time is flying and we are busy.
Please pray for energy for us and for God to renew our strength.

Leaving

We are leaving in 14 days. That will go by fast. Glen is healing well from his surgery to replace his knee. He will have a crown replaced tomorrow and we need your prayers as it is to soon to have dental work. Please pray with us.
We will fly out of Denver on the 14th and then will arrive in Fort Lauderdale. We are going to spend a day so that Glen has time to walk and get around on his leg before we get on the plane again.
We are very excited to be going. We have been asked so many times if we are ready. We are able to answer truthfully. Yes. We are ready to go.
Paperwork and taxes are not ready but we are. Please pray that we will be able to put together the final pieces so that we can leave with everything done. In Gods Hands Linda

Cholera in Haiti

We are asking for special prayer for Haiti today. The cholera outbreak is getting significantly worse and increasingly closer to the villages we minister to. At this point, there is no case in Titanyen, but unless the Lord intervenes, it will be there shortly. We are praying for special protection for our employees and their families, our school kids and teachers, and all our ministry partners at the church and many friends we have in the village. We are in very little danger on the compound as we have clean, treated water and sanitary conditions for all who are here (more and more medical people are arriving to work with both Samaritan's Purse and North Carolina Baptist Relief on their medical teams in the cholera tents.) Susan Bruns, our fellow nurse, has worked 3 shifts so far at a clinic about 40 min. north of us and Sheryl has been at the schools and in the village doing cholera teaching and providing water-treatment products to our employees and schools. We would love to be able to give aqua-tabs to everyone in Titanyen, but the supplies have been slow in arriving. SP was able to get a plane with IV fluids and the tabs here by Friday, but it had to go into customs and we had been praying for a quick release. They were able to get the supplies late yesterday afternoon as IV supplies were getting dangerously low, so that was a big answer to prayer.


We are assisting the small clinic down the road with IVs, supplies, and medical help as they treat cholera patients coming from about 10 min. down the road. Yesterday, a 15- year old girl from Minotree, a small village just 5 min. away, died at the clinic even after receiving IV fluids. The disease comes on so rapidly and if they are severely infected, they can die within hours. People are becoming very fearful and we are praying for God's peace and presence to be felt in a great way over our zone at this time. We will not be treating any cholera patients at our clinic-if they come, we will triage them and send them down to the end of our road where they have tents set up to receive them. We need to continue with our burn care and do not have room for overnight patients or isolating patients. Burn patients have low immunity and would be very suseptable to cholera because of their compromised immune system.


The cholera outbreak is starting to cause violent demonstrations and with Presendtial elections less than two weeks away, there is concern that violence will increase. Please pray for peace and calm and for wisdom and endurance and perseverance to deal with this crisis. We do know without a doubt that God is in control and He will be glorified even in this!


Thank you so much for standing with us in prayer.


Chris and Sheryl

Glen is still in HAiti and will be returning to Colorado on Friday night.