Jan 18

January 18, 2012

Bonswa,
Wednesday night in Pignon, Haiti.

We have news, an addition to our family! Little did we know that when you move into a house in Haiti
a dog comes with it! She comes and goes but usually takes her afternoon nap on our patio.
Sometimes she brings a friend. I don’t think she is monogamous to us but that’s Haiti.

We loaded up the truck this morning with 24 cases of paint and headed out to a rural
satellite medical clinic of the hospital. It’s about a 45 min drive and the roads weren’t too
bad. Two river crossings, we’re glad the water is low this time of year, up a steep grade a
nd we were there. The place is Lauvintua(sp?). It is kind of on the upslope of the plateau
before you get up to the mountains. Really quite a pretty drive. Unloaded the paint, got a
tour of the clinic and back to Pignon. Finished out the day getting some tin for repairing
the roof out at Guimby school, wood to build some benches on the back of the truck and
getting a new simcard installed in one of the phones. We have one phone in for repair but
don’t hold out much hope! Late afternoon I built benches for the back of the truck so it’s more
comfortable to sit on the back of the truck.


The first team from Sunnybrook arrives tomorrow noon. We think we are ready but
you never reallyknow in Haiti. We are anxious to see them and get started on
our projects. Over the next three weekswe are doing a rice/bean
distribution program, 300 families through a group of local churches and then
100 individual homes scattered around Pignon, two bible
schools, two adult women/men bible conferences, bible stories at
some of the other elementary schools, various building repair
projects and building new school desks for all ten of our sponsored
elementary schools(700 desks). A couple of teams have been
able to build 30 a week but I don’t think we will get that many
done because of all are other projects. It will take many team
s to complete the project.

We tried to watch a Beth Moore DVD tonight,
part of Paula’s Tuesday morning women’s bible study curriculum,
but part way through the DVD player quit working. We tried the laptop
but didn’t have the right software loaded. Since we weren’t connected to the
internet we were out of luck. We will have to wait until some of the “techies” arrive.

Paula and I have been in Haiti a week and the time has gone
quite fast. We still miss our TV, newspaper, diet coke and ice cream b
ut we’ll catch up when we get home. The Haitian people are very gracious to us.

Until next time…..Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)

Dean