Pictures - Deyemon Week 1

Here are just a few pictures from the Deyemon Week 1 Team.  If you have Facebook, you can see more by searching...
Mission Possible Haiti Feb. 2013.

Monday at Deymon

Yesterday Liane, Heather, and Allie spent the afternoon hand washing laundry.  We also had the help of Monita who has a lot of experience doing laundry this way.  When we finally got all of the laundry hung on the line it started pouring down rain.  The rain was much needed for the crops here and to fill our sistern but pray for lots of sunshine today so we don’t run out of dry clothes!

From Greg Amstutz: Yesterday we started laying block for the office addition to the school.  It is a little different style than what we are used to but it’s coming together. 

From Mark Bourassa: Awesome day yesterday!  If every day is like yesterday, it’s going to be a great two weeks for me; did a little bit of a lot of things.  Looking forward to church and working on the steps for the school.  Please send pens with Gail!      

From Boz: Jackie I love you and miss you dearly!!

From Heather to Sandy Hall: Send Snickers!

From Tony: Tony says “Hi!” to Jackie.  I’m doing well and eating better here than at home.

From Tom to the first week girls: I waited until you left to fix the door to your room.  There’s no more hole! 
From Stacey: I wish my family a happy un-birthday!
From Allie to Marissa: We found your camera!  Your pictures of Job have been preserved!

The picture below shows the progress that we have been making on the addition to the school,  Jeff and Jon are doing a great job "supervising" the project!

Deyemon day 8

Bonswa (Good evening),
Over the last two days our team of 8 has been working hard getting the house
ready for the 2nd week team to arrive. The woman have been cleaning and
organizing the house (Alot of work), while the men have been at work getting
the new stairs at the school ready to be poured with cement. Our living
quarters are significantly better than when we first walked in. The summer kitchen
is set up and functional, screens are put together and on the windows, and
the house is clean. Liane prepared us a wonderful lunch today of beef and noodles and
fresh homemade bread! Dinner is ready and waiting for team 2 to arrive shortly.
Word is that they are cold,
wet, and hungry from the long trip up the mountain. We will do our best to
make them feel welcomed and comfy. We set up an outdoor shower under the
stars, we are sure they will enjoy it :) Especially the refreshingly
cold water! Sorry but solar shower bags only keep warm a few hours.
The nights are very dark here as the moon is never visible, but the stars are
incredible!

We are looking forward to what the Lord has in store for the coming week!
Please keep praying for us as we serve our Haitian brothers and sisters.

Farewell

P.S. We will try to do a better job of keeping up with the blog site

Deyemon Week 1

Greetings Family and friends from Haiti!  Sorry for the delay in posting but we just got internet this evening.  The week 1 team will be leaving tomorrow morning and will return stateside on Friday evening.  Please pray for them as they make the long, treacherous and terrifying path down the mountain. Just kidding.  Kind of.

All joking aside, God has been providing for and protecting us in amazing ways.  We can't wait to share more stories and pictures soon!  We're making good progress on our projects here so far and can't wait to see them completed.  Please also pray for the other teams that will be coming soon!

Love and miss you all!  Happy Birthday Kent Diller!  Your daughter loves you!    

Weds Update

 

 

Welcome from Haiti!  We miss and appreciate you all.  Today we saw desperation, laughter,and hope.  And we saw some of that in the Haitians too - ha ha.  We went to De'geance School, up in the mountains.  It's a beautiful setting - you can see the ocean in the distance.  We are a novelty there - some of the children even seemed a little afraid of us.  Gale, Tom, Shelby, and Tracy passed out Operation Priceless packets to the kids.  Today there were 285 kids in school and guess how many packets we had?  You got it - 285 exactly!  Believe me - it's not like you can pass the packets out to part of a class - it would cause great upset.  Darren, Scott, Shelby,Tracy, and Pam did their abstinence and women's hygiene classes at the school.  The rest of us worked on distributing packets and taking photos.  Tom managed to fall asleep on the great tree in the school courtyard.

 

We trekked back down the mountain which was much easier because we had distributed about 200 pounds of hygiene and school packets, and also it was, well, downhill.  We returned to MPCA where we presented more classes and took more photos.  A highlight was when the nursing students sang a song of thanks to Scott and and the others who had lead discussions. 

 

At our devotion time watching the sun set over the ocean Pam expressed her optimisim for Haiti that those eager nursing students represent.  Then Lindsay expressed her fear (via a shriek) that a rat was climbing around overhead.  Another day of hope, sweat, and joy in Haiti - Blessings!

Day 3 Chardene



Today we spent the entire day at the Chardene school taking pictures and teaching. It was a very long day, but the students cooperated so well.  The students got lined up and stood exactly where they were suppose to, making it easy on the picture team. Those who were teaching were also very encouraged when over half the students that they spoke to about abstinence, came up choosing to commit to purity until marriage.  God really blessed our day! Continue to pray for our teams health though as some are still feeling ill. Miss you all!

 

-Darren and Scott

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 2- Dupin & MPCA

Today was a very busy day going into the schools for abstinence talks, womans health talks, and picture taking. So much was accomplished by the whole team pitching in and getting the job done wherever they were needed. We personally loved every minute of the hike up Dupin. It was so awesome to see God's creation in so many ways. We learned today that many of the children make that hike by themselves everyday. Some even from an hour, or further away.  We can't imagine those young children making that hike everyday. 

All of the children at the schools were so precious. The abstinence talks for the girls, which we lead, were so great. Especially with the older girls that had a lot of really great questions.  We enjoyed praying with them and connecting with them in that way. When the day was done we were hot and tired, but so blessed by the schools and children we encountered.

Shelby and Tracy