With open
hearts eager to serve, our team went out to three separate locations this
morning. At Dupin, Deb and Ben checked up on the Community Health agents. The
two ensured they were fulfilling their duties of caring for the student’s
health, providing clean drinking water, educating the community on proper
health and sickness prevention, and their many other responsibilities. They
also saw and treated several young students who were ill.
At the same time, a construction team consisting of Marvin,
Bob, Bev, Jeff, John, and Christy was working with endurance, through the heat
of the day, to set the foundations of a new playground. They dug and concreted the holes for the fence posts
that will be surrounding the new playground coming up. While the work at Dupin
ran smoothly, the way there was another story. After a scare going uphill, the
team was grateful for an experienced driver to keep get them there in one piece.
Christy says “great job Jeff for getting us up the mountain and not rolling
backwards into the ravine.”
At St Marc, a small group of three, Miranda, Leah, and
Shari, did the same evaluation on the Community Health Agents as Ben and Deb
did in Dupin and treated a young student feeling ill. They were all impressed
with the work being done there. The agents were thorough in fulfilling their
duties and caring for the children at the school. At noon, they met up with the
mighty medical team at MPCA where Pam, Sabina, Heather, Jen, Libby, Jonica, Chris,
Jeff, Jackie, Ellie, Marissa, Jeremy Fry, and Jeremy Lemley were doing
physicals, ear flushing, and caring for countless other medical needs in the
school. The team was busy throughout the morning and afternoon, but had
endurance and patience to serve the Lord.
To keep the children occupied while they waited to see the
medical team, Miranda and Leah jumped rope and played soccer with the students. While
the field was a bit rough and rocky, Leah had a blast kicking passing, heading,
and throwing the ball with the children. The girls took a liking to Miranda, keeping
her occupied as they followed and crowded around her all afternoon.
Up on the roofs at MPCA, the construction guys, Jared, Chad,
Adam, Steve, and Mark, worked under the hot sun, tearing off the old roofing
with the Haitians, installing new rafters, and cutting lots of boards.
At Chardene, Liane, Teresa, Julie, and Deb taught the first
of six sewing classes that will be taking place at Chardene. They began with an
introduction of the sewing process and distribution of sewing supplies and
quilting pieces. The participants were eager to get started and begin the
quilting process. All were smiling as they headed home in anticipation of their
next class on Wednesday.
Speaking for all of the team, today was a success thanks to
the Lord and his faithfulness to us all. We are looking forward to seeing how
he works throughout the rest of the week!
Shari would like to give a shout out to her son, Dillon. She
says, “Happy birthday Dillon I love you!!”
