Larry Madole March 2010 Trip

~ summitted by Larry Madole~

The most recent work trip to Pignon was a group comprised of people from Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri.
We left our varioue areas on March l7th and arrived the same day
in Ft. Lauderdale airport. We took the shuttle to Ft. Pierce and stayed overnight . The next morning we boarded the MFI plane and headed for Haiti arriving in Pignon at about noon.

We ate lunch and started making arrangements for the projects
that we were going to do while we were there.
These projects included working in the dorm at
the hospital, putting plumbing in the pregnancy
center and putting the roof on the
school at Three Bears.

We got settled in the Iowa House and began to work that
afternoon. We had l6 people on this trip,
three of them were new people from
Iowa and Colorado. We showed them around the hospital
compound and other places in town so they would be
familiar with their surroundings. At the close of
the day we were already well ahead of schedule for
the projects we were going to do.

The next day everybody went about working on the
various projects, putting together trusses for the
school, working on the plumbing at the pregnancy
center and working in the dorm at the hospital.

On Saturday as many of you know this is market
day in Pignon, many of the team members went to the market.
Sue Den Ouden and myself, Larry Madole, attended
a day of the board meeting.

On Sunday we went to church at Bohoc and toured the farm.

Monday morning the sun came up with clear skies and it was
a very hot day. We put up the trusses at Three Bears School
and started to put the tin on the roof.

On Monday Sue Den Ouden and Katie Den Ouden
set up an eye clinic to check people's eyes
for glaucoma and for glasses. The next few days
were filled with working on the projects,
repairing the water system at Guimby and many other
wonderful days and evenings working and sharing together.

We were able to complete all of the projects and were able
to accomplish even a few more.

I would like to thank the team members, who gave of their
time and their talents for the Lord's work in Pignon.
The team members were Larry Madole, Sue Den Ouden,
Katie Den Ouden, Craig Hardy, John Hocker, Larry Farrell,
Gene Tasler, Doug Grunder, Megan Grunder,
Dan Hall, Dick Woods, Judy Woods, Andy Gael,
Eric Larson, Herb Sikkink and Robert Sikkink.

It was a wonderful experince for the whole team.

Larry~~