Grandpa Harold relaxing!!! ;) and a visit to Deacon Noaz's home.

I caught grandpa and Nathan relaxing the other day, couldn't help taking the
shot because it's not often I see grandpa sitting idle. He is a high light for all
of us here at the mission,

I was walking up to the church building two days ago, spending time listening time playing
with the little fellows along the road, singing and praying, and as I was walking around Deacon
Noaz's house I heard "Nothing but the Blood of Jesus" being sung, so I decided to go
join them. They were all sitting working with beans and joyfully singing as they worked.
I'm always thankful the mountains loudly echo any noise for a long ways, so many people
hear the gospel with anyone directly preaching to them. 

Noaz's wife sitting on the right, and the man on the left is a poor fellow
who isn't a believer either, such a sad, forlorn look on his face, but he has
heard the gospel now if he never heard it before that.

There is the house, with all the beans strewn about drying in the sun.

I was ready to walk on and I heard these avocado come crashing down from high above me
and looking up couldn't figure out why they're dropping, if you look close enough you can
see a young man with a long stick way about 18 feet up in the tree banging around making
them drop down.

Beauty for ashes. That's what the Love of Jesus can do to a heart. Young or Old

Sad sad, is the easiest way to describe the feelings and reactions from us when we think of the life of these two girls below. They are sisters. 

Katie, after going to the ti-wo, or spring not far from the compound and she noticed this one girl who never spoke a word, never smiled, never played, basically she and her sister are the scum of the place. Their parents totally forsook them and left them in the care of grandma. Katie found out where their house is and has been going there to visit them, and this past Saturday had someone do their hair for them. They're always dressed very poor and always get mocked and scorned wherever they go. Katie has also been taking them to church on Sundays as well. The older one is finally starting to speak a few words as well. It's exciting and encouraging to see them coming along. Pray for strength and wisdom for the girls who work with them and love them unconditionally.

The older girl has skin lesions and wouldn't even let Katie look at them, but she is finally letting her work with her. Pray lots for them.

Prayer Requests, and different updates.

   Our internet is a bit slow the last week again and we've been quite busy with various things so haven't been able to to any updates.
   First off, one earlier in the week Nathan, Rhoda, Katie and DominQue went to Kiki again to visit our dear old lady, whom we've dubbed at "freckles", it's a hard walk upwards of around 2000 feet higher then the what the mission is sitting on. But yes it seemed as if it was a worthwhile trip, and the tears of the old lady was worth it all in the end.
   Thursday I was busy in office and saw all 5 of the girls leave for Basionette, about 3 or 4 miles walk along the main trail to one of the Thursday afternoon cell group gatherings there. Also the lady that was here in hospital for a week that had bad fluid retention in her stomach asked the elders for anointing, so the pastors were all gathered there as well. Well they were still on the road when it started pouring rain. We got 3 and 3/10's in a couple hours. In the end grandpa and Glenden each took a machine and drove up to bring them home.
   We've been blessed with a lot of rain to fill the cisterns, we are still testing the mission and community wells, nothing looks to promising right now but we're praying for miracles yet.

Prayer Requests.

~Pray for the lady that I mentioned above, that God would give her relief from the pain and discomfort that the fluid retention brings. That whatever God's will is she would find joy in the Lord. And that she could die peacefully if that is the Lord's will.

~CAM has been having trouble with all the new government red tape that they came up with again, and this month we're not getting any medicines at all from CAM, so we will have to "degajeh" in finding all the meds we need to keep going in the clinic. Herbal Life is our most important one right now and we can't seem to find a place that sells it. It's important for all our malnutrition cases and also older people. If we don't have it, the strain is greater on our milk program.

~Pray continually that God would send laborers to the field here.

~Pray for protection on all the people working on the church re building project and also for Steve and whoever drives the truck hauling sand and rock from the river. With all the rain it's hard to get up the hills.

~Pray that God would keep working in the lives of the church people. That they would continue walking with the Lord, and become Holy as God is Holy.

~Pray for the staff. For continued health and revival and strength to go serving the people.
 
 

Another Bean harvest.

Notice all the people dotted about picking beans. I always like watching
them. The corn stalks you see are grown with the beans I'm assuming to help
keep the soil erosion down and it's also food for the goats, cows
and of course porky.

Older gentlemen taking a load of harvested beans home for drying.

Young boy carrying a load of beans.

Beans beans and more beans. 

Old church gathering place versus new/old one. (school building)

It's a bit smaller building but with the cloudy skies and breeze it was a lot
cooler. I just can't ever figure out how they can squeeze so many people
into a yet smaller building then the old one.
This building was built by a German organization. It has 3 main class rooms
but we could take the dividers out, and yes that is where we have church now.

This is what the outside of one of the school buildings look like.

Top view of the old church gather place. Looks like ancient ruins.



This Solar Water Heating System was donated to the mission a while ago.
We finally had the time to mount it on the clinic roof. It will be a lot easier
than running back to the mission to boil water. It requires only sun rays; the chemical inside
the tubes heats a cooper, 3 inch finger that is attached to the tube and stuck
inside the tank. It heats the water up to 180 F. Cold water runs into the headed tank, through
a bunch of coils, which are heated by the water in the tank. No electricity involved
and it's all gravity fed through the system and down into the clinic.
We'll see how it works.

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As most of you probably know, the S.A.L.T. Program, (Shared
Accountability, Lending and Teaching) is under the Gospel to Haiti mission.
Darvin Seibel and his family live in Ti Goave, where it's run out of.
This team came to tour and meet clients and see what the program has done
the last 3 years since it started back here in the mountains.

Leonard Meador is one of the big chiefs back in PA that runs the program
States side. He brought the team over.

Alex

Alex, sitting on the sink rim washing his hands. I've been enjoying seeing him help out
in with a lot of projects. He's growing up fast.

New Blog

   Good day to you all. We have launched a new blog specifically for the church rebuild project we began a week or so ago. The address is: gthchurchrebuild.blogspot.com or simply click on the link, in the Haiti life blog, or even in the Haiti Clinic Life Blog. In the near future we will also have a link added to the Gospel to Haiti website.

   Please pray lots for the protection of all the people working on the project. Also if you feel led to contribute financially or join a team to come volunteer for 10 to 14 days in the future contact Darwin Hostetler, his home number is 1-608-647-4299 or by email: qblfonthego@gmail.com. Thank you in advance.