Florida

We just have arrived in Florida. What a difference than Haiti. When We look at the huge buildings that are not falling down and no trash in the streets, being able to go into a restaurant and order different food. It feels very strange. We will be here in Fort Lauderdale until Sunday when we fly to Tuppelo Miss for a week of classes. We will arrive home on June 15.

Sunday Night

We had just started Bible study when we had a phone call asking us to come and help with the wounded from a truck accident. The brakes had failed coming down the mountains and we had 28 wounded patients. We jumped in the car, gathered a Dr and two more nurses and drove 5 minutes to Mission of hope. We both had memories going over. I had memories of the little boy that we took over who died. Sheryl had memories when we arrived of the earthquake. It was a big porch area full of stretchers and bloody people. I started on a girl that was in shock. Then was called to ride in the Ambulance. I jumped in the back and had 2 patients. We did alot of praying on the ride to PAP. I helped with things to settle the patients at the Miami field hospital and realized that the ambulance had left me. So I waited for the next one. This time I ran the lights, sirens, and the horn as we traved in the dark in the Haiti traffic. SCary. Back to MOH and I started to help again when they needed another nurse to go with Ambulance so Back again. This all with my stomach protesting from being car sick.
We met another ambulance and traded people and I headed back to MOH.
We were able to go home. Glen met me at the door with a coke and a listening ear,
Praise the Lord all the Americans were flown to the states the next day, Praise the Lord that they are not all dead from going over the mountain. Praise the Lord for helping me thru the situation.

We traveled to church in PAP by ourselves

We just came back from traveling to the English speaking church in PAP. That may not sound like much in the world of GPS but it is a big deal in a town that has not very many steet signs. It also is a town of alot of debri and alot of buildings that are down so we felt good about our trip. We even went to the grocery store and to lunch before coming home.
The pastor encouraged us to get on our knees and to pray for Haiti. He also reminded us that Jesus spent 40 days after the resurrection with his disciples. He reminded us that we need to spend time with God.

One Month left.

Tomorrow is 1 month from the day that we get off the airplane in Colorado. That really gives me mixed emotions. So many things will happen here before we leave and then the missionary training in the states. Loving what I do here each day and loving the children and wanting to be able to talk to the Haitian people. Packing things to leave here and packing things to take home. Grandchildren who we will get to see that we know have grown as we saw them on Skype last week for my birthday. Baileys birthday and she will be 5 the week that we come home.
What a mixed group of feelings.

Time has flown so fast. Glen has spent his days helping with the materials needed to help people rebuild their houses. He hauled 1450 block today and some of them he handled more than once. He is already in bed tonight. He has hauled alot of sand this week and also cement, rebar, doors and other supplies that are needed. Chris and he spent one day trying to get the papers for the dump truck.
He has decided what Haitian traffic is like. He say that it is like being in a big race where all classes of cars are racing at the same time and then you look at the other side of the road and the same thing is happening. All different kinds of cars,trucks, and buses racing down the road as fast as they can go.
Today there was one lane of traffic in Titiyan and a dump truck went thru at full speed thru the market. All they do is honk their horn and expect you to get out of the way.
It has been two weeks since the accident where the little boy died. Glen is missing the children of the village as there is a different attitude in the children. That makes Glen sad and if you are praying for us. Please pray for Glen and the children. He loves being with them and it is hard now.
Tonight I went to a orphanage in Titiyan. It had fallen down in the earthquake. The 30 children there have been sleeping in tents in the yards. They are working hard to get a building finished. A girl from Gill named Abby arrived yesterday and she is here to help.
Yesterday I spent the day working to clean wedding dresses. Gobal here in Haiti has wedding dresses. Beautiful ones that they loan out so that people have a wedding dress. The dresses that we delivered will be driven as far as they can on a car and then will have a 2 hour ride on a horse up the mountain to where there will be 3 weddings on Saturday.
This week I only worked in the Burn Clinic. Other weeks I have gone with a group from North Carolina to different towns, tent cities and up in the mountains to have clinics.
We have a 10 month old that we are treating who reached into a pot of boiling cereal and has third degree burns on arm and fingers. This is about the 5 or 6 one of these burns that we have seen since I have been here. We have seen many people burnt from riding on the back of a Moto. They will have up to 5 people and their supplies on these Motorcycles and legs get burnt. We have treated people after car accidents. This week a man that we had gone out in the rain to get after a car accident came back to see us and asked to pray for us. He prayed in French and quoted the 23rd Psalm. It was a beautiful prayer of thanksgiving.

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.

Saturday

WE woke to a hot day but there is a breeze and that really helps. We have already finished burn clinic as we try to only do the ones that need to be seen and can not wait until Monday. We had 2 new children with burns today. One 2 year old that was reaching up and it spilled under her arm and down her side, One 2 year old that had boiling water on her foot from the family meal of boiling beans and rice. They are so good. They just sit there and let us treat them. They are happy for the Pic Willy which is a sucker that we give after we treat them.
Glen left for PAP (town) with Kevin another missionary here. They were going to check out ECODepot and NAPA and pick up the Mail from AGAPa. That is the flight service that brings in mail and letters so that it goes for US postage. All package have to have custom duty paid on them. Glen is trying to get a idea of where to get parts as he is trying to keep things working. Very different than the States, If this picture comes thru it is of the piles of rubble that are every where from the destroyed houses.