Dr's and hernias....ask Dr. Jeff (title by Josh)

Saun experiences love at first sight, meeting her sweet little sponsor child.  

This girl got a great "29" birthday present, working construction with her sponsor child, Mardochee.  Heather and Jeff have sponsored Mardochee for the past 5 years.

Check out the beautiful new steps done by construction crew of Chris, Travis and some Haitian helpers;  Harry , Michael, Joseph and Desnae.

Praising the Lord for another productive day!  More desks being constructed,  sewing projects being completed in La Hatte with the patient instruction and guidance from Bev and Jody,  community medical team seeing over 100 patients at St.  Marc,  Lynn and Liane teaching marriage and family seminar to Mission Possible Church women, and the first ever blood pressure clinic for the pastors and wives done by Dr. Jeff , Christian and Pam.

Feb. 18th/2015

Another great day!

Lucky is our first Haitian Welder, thanks to Stan the Man

Dr. Jeff getting to meet his sponsored child.

This is always a highlight for all of us.

Eight new cement floors for St. Mark's School.  Thanks to Chris, Travis and Jacob.

Each team member has been such a blessing.

Mahlon and Winn teaching our friends to use the table saw.  Scary!!!!!  

Pam flushing ears out with a water pic.....

Quickly need to send this blog, about done with the Internet.   Love our families.

Shout outs

Josh—Heidi, Wilson, Abe, and Annie, I miss you all. Boys, don’t fight and listen to your mom.

Mahlon—Babe, hope you’re not froze to death. The weather here is great and I didn’t get injured today. Thank God.

Jon—Missing you and the kids. See you soon. Don’t forget about our date in a couple of weeks. Love you

Saun—Hi Chuckie! Hope you are staying warm. We are enjoying the beautiful sunsets. Love you!

Bev—I’m doing well! We’ve had great weather! Thanks for your thoughts and prayers!

Travis—Hi Mom! I love you!

Jody—I love and miss you Brian, Wendy & Adam & Brian! Thanks for the prayers everyone! Margie & family, you are in my prayers. Love you all!

Tammy—Kent, Love you. Sad you aren’t here to fall asleep listening to the waves and seeing the beautiful sunsets…Next year! J

Jean—Hey g! It was great hearing your voice the other night. Thanks courage to change class for your prayers.

Jeff & Heather—Hi Kids and Grandkids. Miss you all. We are doing great. Cindy Schneck, Jeff wants fig Newtons. Haha

Christian—Hello from Haiti. Dad misses and loves you, and thinks about you often. Love you, Jamie and see you soon.

Jeff E.—Today went great. Thanks for everyone’s prayer. Leah and the boys, I miss you and love you a lot.

Carly—Hello to everyone in Minnesota. Things are wonderful here and I thank you for all the prayers.

Jeff L.—Hello to my beautiful wife. J

Liane & Lynn—Hi to the Thompson kids! We are doing great; keeping busy and sweating. J Love you all and tell Cora we live by the ocean.

Bob L.—To my awesome wife, kids & grandkids. I love all of you so much!

Jacob—Wassup to my lovely letter writer and my favorite sister. Also my bros and old folks.

Wes—Hi Ladies. I am enjoying my time in Haiti but I am missing you. Thanks for praying.

Pam & Mark—Ayden, Truett, Ellis, Wyatt, Bo & Lena…Nana & Papa love you so much!

  We had the first Youth Conference among the Mission Possible churches today. We challenged the 120 high school youth with 1 Timothy 4:12 to be examples in their character and behavior. Thirty-four sewing ladies at Lanzac finished their quilts today.  What a joy to see their satisfaction with their finished projects! The medical team saw about 120 patients from the Chardene area. Elaine prayed with each patient after they were seen by Dr. Jeff. It was thrilling to see that four of them became brothers/sisters in Christ. What an amazing day! Some construction workers resurfaced the cement floor at St. Mark’s. Some workers reinforced rafters in the MPCA cafeteria. The remaining construction workers stayed at the Mission Center to continue working on the school desks and cabinets.  

Sunday a day of rest and that is what we did today….most of us. Liane gets little rest (and those that work beside her ie. Heather, Carly, and Monita) as they make sure we eat well this afternoon and always.  Mahlon and Heather went this afternoon to greet our 9 new team members at the airport.  All is ready for them here at the Mission Center to rest since most will have been up for 24 hours.

This morning the team split to go to 2 different churches.  One half went to St Marc Church as Lynn continued to preach on Galatian.  The other half went to Degence where the team worshiped in the building that our construction team reinforced the rafters yesterday.  The new desks were filled with Believers in Christ worshiping our one and only true God.  I attended that serve and was blessed by the worship through song.  I am humbled by the Haitians that make such attempts to communicate with us in English. I hope to be as dilegent in learning Creole as they are at English.  Working side by side has encouraged more of that exchange in teaching each other.

The team arrived safe and tired.  All supplies were quickly unpacked and distributed to their appropriate locations.  We had a great dinner, were given briefings on tomorrow, and some time for some rounds of Skipbo. 

As this week begins pray for the medical team and those they will serve this week at the clinics.  Your continued prayers for the construction team and their Haitian apprentices for safety and clarity of directions despite the language barrier.

Josh says “HI, I made it”

Greetings to our friends and family! We have enjoyed a relaxing evening after another busy day. The big news of the day was the guys carrying a big load of desks, teacher desks, and cabinets up to Degence. Nine of our guys plus several Haitian helpers carried it all and they said it was 10 miles uphill both ways.....at least it felt that way! We will include some pictures of the finished products....they look good! The local people were also helpful and watched with interest and anticipation. The children now have more desks to sit in and the teachers have a desk and a cabinet to use in their classroom. The  guys also reinforced the rafters in the church/school which was a major project. Hauling the 14' boards up there on Friday was no small project but it was great to see that work get done.

Let's see.....what else would you like to know?? Washing clothes was in order today as most of us are running out of clothes. I stand amazed at the effort our Haitian ladies put out in order to make sure we get sheets and towels done for our next group......most of which is done in big tubs on the ground. Today one of the ladies spoke up to tell me that her name is Eliane ....just like my name Liane but with an "E" in front. She smiled and gave me a hug and we shared that sweet moment together.

Green Jean painted desk frames all day and was a bit covered with paint at the end of the day. I spent some time trying to communicate with Manita, my Haitian sister in the kitchen. We laugh pretty hard as we try to make our thoughts and plans known to each other. We have a Creole language book here and I use it often as the language barrier is the most frustrating issue to deal with. In the sewing class, the kitchen and the couples seminar, as well as in the shop,

the lack of direct communication hinders us and slows us down. But, we are learning!

We heard tonight that your weather is cold and snowy....sorry to hear that. We were pretty hot and sunny here today. Love to all and thanks for praying for us. Blessings to you all and keep the prayers coming.

Liane

We started our day singing happy birthday to Win.  He is a faithful servant of God and we are delighted he and his wife Elaine chose to celebrate his birthday with us in Haiti.

Well for some of our team it is their last day with us.  Jen, Whitney, Cindy, Sandi, Steve, and Linda will soon be enjoying a hot shower and the food of their choice in the states.  They have served faithfully this week and we who are left behind will greatly miss them. 

The Mission Center was a hub of activity today.  In the sewing class the highlight was when a few ladies were able to use the sewing machine.  Cindy received a quick Creole lesson in how to say “slow down”.  The construction team was working like a machine.  While the finishers sang songs of praise the desk tops, seats, and desk storage cabinets were getting a coating of finish.  Win and Mahlon’s carpentry team was making a mountain behind the shop with the cabinets for the desks.  Jon and Stan are a great welding team and worked nonstop to continually feed desk frames and chair frames to the crew to grind so Jean and a couple of the Haitian brothers could get a coat of paint on them to prevent rusting.  Jeff H. makes sure we have what we need form the shop.   There was a lot being built this week but nothing tops the working relationships that were built.  

Greetings to all!

We had another very productive day here in Haiti.  The medical team of Pam, Heather, Jen, Whitney, Steve, Cindy and Elaine went to St. Marc school.  117 students, preschool through 9th grade were seen.  Linda and Jeff Laing, Liane, and Carly went to LaHatte to start up the sewing project with the women there.  Jeff had a great time sewing too!  Ha ha!  Actually...he spent a lot of time interacting with the children.  We have attached a fun picture in this blog of him with a couple of them.  One of the amazing things about the sewing class today, was we had just enough sewing kits for the women attending the class.  God is truly providing!

There were several continuing to work on the student desks and cabinets today.  Progress is going very well!  It is so exciting to see the Haitians as they are hard workers and becoming more efficient in their new skills.

Lynn and Liane continued with another marriage class today.  They both are very encouraged as the couples are interacting well together.

We are now sitting here this evening enjoying the wonderful popcorn that Jacob makes so well!  The weather has been cooler than usual all this week, but feels great.  It has been another wonderful day of serving Christ by serving others today.  We thank you all so much for your continued prayer for this ministry.  Your partnership with daily prayer means more than you know.