Rice Project

Thank you to the ones that contributed to the rice project.I was able to buy ten small bags of rice and a case of cooking oil.

I gave 4 bags of rice and the oil to this pastor who's church was destroyed in the quake only a mile or so down the road.

Here is a pic of the young lady i had posted about yesterday. One is a cellphone pic that they snapped soon after she was rescued by her brothers. She was trapped under the rubble for 7 hours across the road from my house.

Life in Leogane

Well things have fallen into a new norm around here. Everyone except the doctors are sleeping inside now. A Haitian organization came yesterday and set up 2 tents. They had come thru several weeks ago and asked what we need the most. So now they came and set up tents and brought us 2 boxs of supplies: cook stove, kettles, plates, silverware, cups, mats, blankets, mosquito nets, hammer, saw, gallon jugs, and a few toys for the girls. Pretty much a survival kit. They are going to all the orphanages in Leogane to see how they can help. Now that the girls are sleeping inside we don't really need them unless there would be another hard tremor. The girls are begging to sleep in them just because they look nice. :)

Currently we have 2 doctors from Heart to Heart here. The missionaries from Labaliene are also here with a group of around 10 or so. They are here to build the little wooden cabins at a tent city close to here. They are sleeping in the upstairs of the main house and use the downstairs kitchen. Us girls are too scared to move in plus it still needs a good scrubbing. The last group that was here painted most of the rooms so none of the repaired cracks are noticable anymore. I'm still not completely convinced that the house is safe but everyone acts like it is so I guess we'll pretend so.
The girls started school a couple weeks ago. We set up a tarp out under the mango trees and set up their benches and chalkboard. It's nice to have them on a schedule again and keeps them occupied.
Today a pastor and his son from Indiana stopped in for an hour or so. I met the pastor in Aucayes the other weekend and he was intrested in interviewing people that had been trapped under the rubble of the quake. So I arranged for Remy (our gate guy) to bring his sister to be interviewed. She recounted the story of how she was trapped at her Nursing school for approx 7 hours just down the road from our place, and across the road from my house. Normally there were 30 students in that class but they weren't all there that day. All but 5 of them were crushed to death. She was the last one pulled from the rubble. Her head was swollen so much they didn't recognize her. I will try and post a picture of her before and after. She fell face first with her head trapped against the ground and 2 dead people laying on her arms. She could hardly breathe until she pulled her one arm out from underneath the one corpse. She kept kicking her legs so that people passing by might see her and know she is still alive. By God's grace she survived! A couple of her brothers pulled her out of the rubble risking their own lives to save hers. She needed to do some skin grafting since she had a terrible wound on her upper arm. Her head also had several wounds. There are many stories like hers but there are also many that never survived to tell. Many are still suffering and hurting not only from physical wounds but also from loss of loved ones.
Being here in the yard it's easy to forget the suffering that many are going thru but you need only walk up the road a few short steps and you remember...remember the day when our lives changed forever.
May God bless each of you for praying.

Engagement Pics

We took some engagment pics the other day. Thought I would post some of them.

We've been having some weird weather. Lots of wind and chilly nights. When I say chilly I mean like 70 degrees. Its actually just perfect at night. I started sleeping inside now the past week or so. There haven't been that many tremors and its not very comfortable sleeping under a tarp. Lots of mosquitos, no fans, plus 7 little dogs running around. Makes for a long night. The yard women and the 7 girls still sleep outside. The even have a recliner out there.
Right now we have a group of doctors here from Heart to Heart. Sometime there are as many as 10 of them here at a time. We mostly just give them a place to sleep and shower plus meals. We have a work group here from Bellville, Pennsylvania right now. 7 guys and 1 girl. They have been doing a lot of painting plus put the barbed wire up on the wall. Most of out repair work is finished here in the yard. Hopefully we'll be able to help people in the community before too long. There are still many people sleeping under tarps. It has rained quite a bit. There are also many that only have sheets or blankets over their heads.
Please continue to pray for the Haitian people.
I will try and update more frequently...