On our way to Paraguay! We have been in Florida since Tuesday visiting with friends and family and making final preparations for our trip. We have a long day of travel tomorrow, leaving Orlando mid morning and scheduled to arrive in Asuncion just before...
One month ago today, we embarked on our journey to Cusco, Peru followed by our trip to Haiti. Today we are wrapping up a week of training for the teachers at the Docine Christian school in Gonaives. We have had a very good week great attendance! We...
Last night was prayer meeting with real good attendance. Dale gave the devotional, after prayers and a good time of singing, including learning a new song for the Christmas season. The teacher training is going well. The curriculum is based on foundations...
Day two of the teacher training. It is going well, not much more to say. The power here comes and goes, it is a regular occurrence - daily. The mission house has a generator that kicks on when the power goes out. So, right after lunch the...
Today was the first of five days of teacher training. We are meeting here in the mission house front room, class is from 8 to 2 with lunch at 11. Today we had 22 teachers, the count could vary as the week goes on, 12 men and 10 women. Other than the...
The building was indeed cleaned up and ready for church this morning. Sunday school at 8 and worship at 9:15. All in French, except the sermon which was preached by Dale and translated by Esaie, who worked well with Dale! I have some new little...
Some more thoughts from yesterday . . . The school has 320 students enrolled this year. . Below, Dale, Esaie and I on the pre-school veranda. I think he was trying to recall names from a team ( from Village Seven PCA in Colorado Springs) who had...
We arrived in Haiti on time, very smooth travel. Even getting through immigration was a breeze, except we had to pay a $10 tourist fee each that we didn't know about ahead of time. Getting through the airport was an overwhelming experience with...
Haiti today via Miami - At the airport 4:30 am. ?Edited with BlogPad Pro
Spent our last full day in Cusco working on the Josephine House. Dale and I actually laid a whole room of flooring together, without any tense moments.? This afternoon we helped Keith get a start on the front porch. It was a good day of hard work!...