Our building is finally the color it’s going to be until it fades enough to need to be painted. Yay!! It is now green with a gold-ish trim. We have started on some of the inside rooms as well. One of the rooms is like a baby room pink and the girls bathroom is red. We have cleaned out the storage room in the house and moved the sound system back there so that there is more room in the living room.
Valter, our chef, bought a bigger stove with 6 burners on it and a little oven down below. He is working on getting his ministry called Children’s Bread started. He wants to be able to do a feeding program every day for about 5,000 children. He is in the beginning stages of this daughter ministry of YWAM PAP. He is to receive $20,000 to get it started. Please be praying that people would be called to come and help him with this. He will also need a kitchen on wheels. Pray that there won’t be too much confusion or frustration with getting it started.
We did the feeding program at Lifeline and it went really well. We fed a lot of children and mothers with small children. It was great to get to spend all day there with the kids. I also loved showing my YWAM friends around. The kids really really miss the kids that were adopted from Lifeline, and all the people they know from the teams. I saved some pictures from Facebook on my computer to show them and they loved it!
Wyclef Jean announced that he is running for President of Haiti on Thursday. We watched an interview with him on CNN the other night. The Haitian guys that work with us aren’t too impressed with him. He was born in Croix des Bouquets and moved to the U.S. when he was 9 and has spent the last 31 years there. His Creole isn’t too good, nor is his French, neither of which sit well with most of the Haitian people. Peterson said his accent when he speaks Creole is worse than Lucy’s, who has only been speaking it for 6 years. We will see what happens in November when the elections are supposed to happen. I have been told there is usually a lot of rioting and violence around election time, so please pray against that. In intercession on Friday, we prayed that God would raise up a righteous leader who is actually going to help things change and cares about the people.
Today is Peterson’s birthday, so we had a little party last night. Valter took the grill to Lucy and Peterson’s and grilled steak. I attempted to make a peach pie… the crust was good. Now I know how to make it better next time. I was really sad that it wasn’t very good though because I tried really hard. I had to make 2 8x12 pans of it, I didn’t have a flat surface to roll the dough on, and I had never made peach pie before. It ended up being more like peach soup and some crust. My friend, Joshua Miller, helped me some with the crust.
It has been raining a lot more the last several weeks than it did about the first 3 weeks I was here. It is a big muddy mess when it rains. It makes keeping the house clean quite the task, let me tell you! My tent leaks a little bit when it rains a lot, but not a whole lot, for that I am thankful.
I have been driving pretty regularly for about 2 ½ weeks now. Sometimes it is a little stressful, but I am usually not scared. Actually, one of the first days I drove, we went to a hospital and there were lots of hills and lots of traffic. I am from Kansas, so obviously not used to hills, so I told Steeve (one of our Haitian staff) that I was kind of scared and he said, “Don’t be scared, you’ll make mistakes if you’re scared.” So since then, I have determined to not be scared when I drive.
Please pray for me that I will be able to communicate clearly with teams and my fellow staff. Also that I would have wisdom and discernment. My neck still hurts quite a bit usually, so if you would continue to pray for relief there, I’d appreciate it.
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