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.

November

Time is flying. Glen is in Haiti for two weeks with a team and then will stay a extra week to help and look for a car and a atv for us.

Last week we went to Nashville with our things for living in Haiti to be put on a oceangoing container. Our possessions will arrive in Haiti in 2 months. Hopefully the house that we will be living in will be ready by then. Glen will go down in January and I will follow after the our grandson Sawyer is born and the taxes are done.

Please Pray for me as I have been ill since Oct 26 and now have medication and am finally beginning to think that I will recover. Please pray for the strength to finish cleaning out the house and to find someone who will rent and take good care of our house for us.
God has been using this week that he has slowed me down to talk to me. He has so many good things to tell us when we have time to listen.

Glen is in Haiti

Glen is in Haiti until November 19. He will be looking for us a car and to see if he can find a ATV so that he can get around when we are there. He will also help with the team that is there and help with what other things need done.

Last week we took our things to Nashville to be shipped to Haiti. We will see how expensive that is soon. Could be up to a $1.00 apound. Our things will arrive sometime in January. Glen will go down and I will follow after our Grandbaby and the taxes

MOVING

WE'VE HAD VERY GREAT WEEK, WE WERE ASKED TO SPEAK IN LINDA'S BROTHERS CHURCH, BOTH SERVICES. WHAT A GREAT TIME TO BE ABLE TO SHARE WHATS GOD HAS PLANNED FOR LINDA AN I. WE'VE BEEN SO BLESSED IN THE PROCESS PREPARING TO LEAVE.
WELL WE ARE IN THE NEXT PHASE OF OUR JOURNEY TO HAITI. WE RECIEVED NEWS THAT WE NEEDED TO HAVE OUR PERSONAL HOUSEHOLD GOODS IN NASHVILLE, TN. BY THE END OF THE MONTH. WELCOME TO BEING FLEXABLE. WE RENTED A UHAUL AND ARE LOADING IT NEXT TUESDAY AND HEADING FOR NASHVILLE. IT TAKES ABOUT 2 MONTHS TO SHIP AND GO THROUGH CUSTOMS. IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS THERE ARE A FEW UNEXPECTED OH BY THE WAY!!!!
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE PEOPLE IN HAITI AS A MANY HAVE DIED FROM AN OUTBREAK OF CHOLERA.
PLEASE ALSO PRAY FOR THE TEAM FROM BETHAL BAPTIST, GREELEY, CO THAT IS LEAVING IN NOV. TO GO TO HAITI. I AM GOING WITH THIS TEAM AND SPENDING AN EXTRA WEEK TO LINE UP SOME DETAILS THAT WE NEED BEFORE WE ARRIVE IN 2011.

Moving forward

We have been moving forward to being in Haiti by sometime after the first of the year. There are many things to do but we had plans laid out that would have put Glen in Haiti in November to look for a car and 4 wheeler for us. Also he would have participated with the mission trip from Bethel.
He returned from Wisconsin on Friday with a infected knee. We saw a Dr on Sat and he started on Antibotics. He took me to Kimball to see my family and to the airport to fly out to North Carolina for Equip Missionary Intensive training. Monday he saw our family Dr who immediately sent him to the orthopedic surgeon and he was in Surgery a few hour later. He has a PICC line for IV access now and will be recieving IV antibotics for the next 4-6 weeks. So we will see what our time line is now and how we need to readjust plans. Please continue to pray for us. Thanks Linda

In Colorado

We are currently in Colorado. We have been busy since we returned. Glen is currently rebuilding the well house so that we can get our home ready for renters, I have been working, trying to catch up on mail, and took a trip with my mom and sisters to Branson. We are currently working on information that Global requires. We will be getting a letter out to you in the next weeks. We are getting ready for a garage sale. When you have lived in a house for 20 plus years there is lots of things that need garage saled.

Sheryl and Chris Brumley will be in Greeley after August 5. We are looking forward to catching up on what is happening in Haiti. We had a long talk with Julie Welch who was on a mission trip down to Haiti in May. Haiti captures your hearts.


Please pray with us as we work out the details to return to Haiti soon.