Sarah sees things from a slightly different angle sometimes, but if you stick with her before long things begin to right themselves!

These are photos we took as we visited some of our neighbors in the village with our Crown Point mission team. Those giant hanging things in the tree are bundles of drying corn still in the husks all tied together. New to me. Tim’s Sunday school class sponsors this little girl. He brought a gift of food to her Mom.and goodies for Mania, too. This family is very active in our church. The little...

School is off to a great start. Little ones are learning to their colors & numbers. While returning students dive right in to more serious studies. We started the year with almost 150 students in grades K4 – grade 5. Each day begins with hymn singing and a patriotic flag raising assembly. And the school, teachers, and students are covered in prayer. Each day children are fed 2 nutritious...

This little lady is at church every day- she never misses. Ummm, You ask… “Did she say every day?” Yep! We have church every day except Monday- when someone finds an excuse to meet or have some kind of practice anyway!! Sunday is Sunday School, Service, Youth & Young Adult meetings, then Service again. Tues- Bible study; Wed.-Service; Thurs- Bible study; Fri- Service at mountain...

The short version: Began school pre-planning with teachers Had teacher training classes on “Getting off to a good start” Nursing duties- medications to sick, pink-eyed & boil/abscess children child stubbed toe and her toenail was left hanging- pulled it off & cleaned- owie! This man had accident 1 month ago & lost his leg. He is supposed to go to hospital for dressing...

We are safe in Haiti. Our flight was delayed (what a surprise!) but all of our bags arrived with us! It was dusk when we left the airport, we made a couple of quick stops in town- one for gas & one for ice & bread- then headed north. It is not fun travelling on Route 1 after dark, as you can tell below, but we made it to the orphanage intact with the exception of a few fingernails that we...

Route 1 is a treacherous, desolate stretch of road that runs north and south the length of the country. It is Haiti’s main road. It is also in a terrible state of disrepair with huge holes, the sides of the road crumbling away, and completely washed out places. And that’s being nice. There is a lot of traffic on Route 1, tap-taps full of people rushing from PAP to anywhere and back again,...

See… I told you it was a whopping big check!! NO Rusty, this doesn’t count as an anniversary dinner!!

Friday night we were honored to be invited to the annual board meeting and banquet for the Florida Baptist Financial Services. It was a fun evening complete with a great meal & the Big Orange Barbershop Chorus for dessert! CEO Eddie McClelland gave a wonderful presentation and slide show featuring the JBA-Haiti mission. And then he gave us a whopping big check!! FBFS underwrote our expenses to...

I decided to go get my hair trimmed before I left the US, so I went to the beauty shop Friday & had it done before the banquet. While I was there, I decided it was time to retouch the color and the nice sylist lady talked me into getting some highlights added. I agreed but told her I wanted subtle color, because I had an important evening and my style was a bit conservative. Since when are pink...