New life in Haiti

Posted by admin on March 3, 2010 under TLC Updates | Be the First to Comment

Monday, March 1, 2010

Dear wonderful supporters, sponsors and prayer warriors,
Once again it has been quite some time since I have been able to bring all of you up to date. So here’s the most recent that I can share with you.

Mr. Nickson and his wife now have a baby girl, and even though he is pretty Americanized he and his family still prefer to sleeping in a tent as to moving into anything we could offer them that has cement or blocks, so this is their choice and we must respect their fears but pray for all of those that have homes that have been pronounced “safe,” but choose to live outside in a tent.

This brings us to the “Tent Communities,” they are everywhere. Some are over 1000 in tents. I will get some photo’s this weekend when we dispurse food again. The last distribution went well, but we could have used another 500 bags to try and even come close to feeding the people. This community is now too large for us, we can’t begin to touch their needs, so this past Saturday we stuck to the smaller communities and I will send those photos in a few days.

We also are still feeding the cooked rice at the school on Saturday’s. We fed probably about 300 children and a few adults. We are using the FMSC (Feed My Starving Children) rice packets for this project.

School is going well, all of our students except the two that chose not to return are doing ok. The aftershocks that continue to come, one this morning, are not helping with the fear that all of them are experiencing. We were blessed last week and today to have a visiting counselor that came from Missouri to work with Hope Force International and some other hospitals in helping children understand what has happened in their lives and how to cope. Even though we are behind in our curriculum we did feel that helping the children overcome their fears and trying to help them understand it all, was of far more importance.

My dear friend Kathy Chappell that had arrived on Valentine’s day to give me some relief, was very unexpectedly called home to Missouri today. Her sister is extremely ill and is in the hospital. Our Father opened all the doors as we rushed to get her on a plane this morning, praise HIS HOLY name she was boarding a plane at about 9:45 am, God never ceases to answer prayers. Please lift her and her family to our Father and pray for HIS perfect will. The sister Ruthie has been ill for many, many years.

The Guesthouse has been too busy for me, but apparently not for our Father and Haiti. I continue to draw on HIS strength, as mine is defintiely gone at the end of everyday.

Mail is back up and running for all of us. We do have to go a much longer way to pick-up, but God has that plan too, right?

The food prices continue to soar, but rice in the large 55 lb. bags is not too bad, it is now $32.00 US.