Sunday and the rest of the week

Sunday we went to church in TiTiyan. This is the village next to the compound. The pastor asked the ones that were newly baptised to stand. 77 people stood and they had just been baptiesed. We were privieged to take communion with them

Tuesday and Thursday I went with North Carolina Baptist to clinics. We saw 160 on Tuesday and must have seen more then that on Thursday as we went to a tent city that they are calling Obama. The people just moved on the a mans private land and sat up their tents. We rode to the clinic in a TAPTAP. It is a small pickup brghtly painted that you ride in the back and when you want off you tap on the the side of top of the pickup shell. 26 people accepted Christ as Savior on Thursday. They shared using a Evangel Cube. It was a neat way to share the gospel.

This week we have not had any new burns just the two year olds and Moto burns from last week. They are healing fast.

We have had a team here from Kentucky here this week. They have worked on rebuilding the damage to a large church, Making and painting church benches, sealing a roof and other projects that need done. We have had the men who work on the compound fixing all the cracks from the earthquake damage. So now alot of the buildings will need repainted.

We each take a night and tell our testimony and what we are doing at Global. It has been neat to hear the stories of our fellow workers and how they made it to the mission field.

Wednesday night we were just finishing supper when it started raining. We had a inch and 6 tenths in 30 minutes. Just as the rain was going good we had a employee tell us that her brother in law had been in a truck accident and was at the gate as they could not get anyone to treat him. We were soaked by the time we made it to the car. We had to drive the car to the end of the property. We thought that we would get stuck. People were carrying him to meet us. They slipped and fell just before they made it to the car. We loaded him in the car and started to the clinic. We did not know how badly injured he was. He just had a badly cut forehead and had wounds to arm and a dislocated shoulder. We treated him and then you have to find a way to get him home as the village does not have lights and is not very safe to be driving in. So you can tell that life changes fast here.

Glen has fixed so many things this week. We have had all kinds of things go down. He is waiting on parts. Please pray that the parts will arrive before we leave so that he can finish fixing what he has apart.

Tomorrow the team leaves and so does our director David Heady. Glen is headed to the airport in town. We are going to the English church in town on Sunday. We will eat out and shop for groceries as you do not usually go into Port a Prince.

I guess the other thing that happened is that we moved into
Kevin and Susan Bruns house to take care of their dogs as they are in the States for 6 weeks. We have a beautiful view of the ocean and mountains. We are watching Basset Hound and a Rotwieler. We will be here until May 23.
Kevins Family is from Torrington Wyoming.

Just to let you know that we miss all of you. We really appreciate the emails and phone calls when we can catch you. You can call us on Skype at glenandlinda@hotmail.com if you have Skype. Please continue to pray for us and we are praying for you.

Easter

Easter is very important in Haiti. It is important to the Voodoo and the Christians. The Christians have services the entire week before Easter and churches are packed on Easter day. This week Glen went with the group from Global to show the Passion Film in the mountains with a portable screen and generator. They had a 2 hour trip in the back of a pickup there and back again. Then Thursday night was a service that started at 330 and finished at 930 at the church here in town. Then we headed off at 7Am to go to church in
Port a Prince, This service the Preacher was our director David Heady. There were 2 choirs and the service was on radio and Internet, The choir that was dressed in white graduation gowns complete with the hats was wonderful. They sang the Hallelujahs Chorus in Creole. IT was beautiful. The church was a big church Downtown and it had damage from the earth quake. That same night David went back and showed the
Passion film and around 115 people accepted the Lord. Last night we showed the Jesus film. The church was packed out and everyone watched very intently. Two people accepted Christ. One Lady watched the film and moved closer when the invitation was given but did not accept Jesus. At least we know that she heard about Jesus.
Saturday I went into a Lady house in TITanyan. It was a two room small house. She has 4 children, absent husband who beats her, and she is a faithful worker in the church. She had Easter dress hanging for the whole children's choir. She was making about 30 dresses and shirts for the Choir. She makes all of these on a treadmill Singer machine. They were a Blue Taffeta with trim. Gorgeous dresses, They sang at church this morning. They were one of the four choir groups that we had this morning. All of the groups and all of the people in were dressed in very wonderful church clothing. Alot of them came out of tents or cardboard and plastic tents.
Then today we had lunch with Samaritans Purse Ham, Mashed Potatoes, green beans, fruit and peach cobbler. Tonight we had a Service here on the compound with all of the people here. We were outside in the chapel. We were surrounded by the tarps that they will be giving away. We had a beautiful sunset and looked out on the water as the Chaplain talked about Jesus being on the water. We had Communion together.
I have found that I really miss hearing the service in English. We have now heard 2 English services this week. I am beginning to be able to know what they say at times but not enough to get the meaning of the message.
Just wanted to let you know That We have had a Blessed Easter. Even in Haiti God is alive.