God Knows What He's Doing and He is Good!

So many things to tell you - so little time! Here are a few highlights from our day:

* A very young boy (maybe a year old) was brought to the clinic this morning because his breathing was raspy. He clearly needed some medicine and a breathing treatment, but how do you do that if all you have is an inhaler? Well, you leave it to Sara Cox. She had a mask, a rubber glove, an inhaler, and a tube and immediately brought those items together in a very impressive "Macgyver-like" move. After a couple of breathing treatments, he was good to go. God is good!

* We have been trying to communicate that our team would help the Haitian workers in painting the school, but the workers seemed to be confused and continued to discourage our people in the task. But we had a major breakthrough today when God worked through our interpreter, Dorlus to figure out a way to solve the problem. We had a team meeting with all the painters, and had a great day of partnership with new relationships forming. You see, we could send the money to Haiti and the work would get done, but our desire is to partner with our brothers and sisters in the work, to build relationships that will allow us to encourage the church and to receive encouragement from our friends as well. God is good!

* Mike Thomas has been working hard alongside the men helping to get the basketball court built. Today was the day Mike had to explain the installation of the posts. He and I met with the Bossman, Claudy, a couple of the foremen, and Dorlus. It was so cool gathering ideas and then settling on a plan that is going to work extremely well. Mike said he would strap himself to the post in a hurricane. The posts and backboards will be up tomorrow and the concrete for the foundation will be mixed by hand and poured by the wheelbarrow-full. The Haitian men have already challenged our men to the first game to be played on the court! Excitement for the court is growing! God is good!

* Nancy Service shared with a few of us that she had felt led to bring a few pair of glasses that are old prescriptions for her and Jim. She has been praying (as have the Kasunic family)that those glasses would be just the right prescription for someone here. God answered in a very clear way as each pair of glasses was given. One lady put on a pair of glasses, and could see. She grabbed Nancy's hand and said, "Mesi". God is good!

Please pray that those we connect with will know the truth of Jesus, our only HOPE! Also pray God's comfort for our team member, Dee Dee Curran. Dee Dee received word tonight that her cousin died. Her cousin was someone very special to her, so as you might imagine, this is a hard time for Dee Dee to be away from her family.


Learning to Serve,

Lisa :)
On Behalf of the Team