Here they are the Lemuel's Kindergarten Graduates of 2014!!!

Here they are!!

a play of the farmer and the fruit...

the presentation of the seasons...

singing with all their heart!!! 

We want to thank those who helped with the school this year. It was a successful year.
Thank you!!!

vacation with a little fun and a little fever...

Schools is OUT!!!

Children's club finished this week

the promised finished mural...

a rousing game that will keep the young men lively!

not everyone is playing still more getting THE FEVER!

but Woodyoumi assures me he will not get the fever...

"Honest I am not going to get it, look my cheeks got good color!" 

"Now my mom over there, she's got it. She's got it bad" 

Thanks for praying for us these past weeks. Krischelle and I are both on the mend. The end of this week we will have school graduation and then all staff will be on vacation! 

World Cup . Studies . Supplies for the FEVER (chikungunya)

 2014 WORLD CUP and we have connection! Watching Bosnia SCORE!!!

 Lemuel's intern Jenna has classes 3 times a week with Bonita. Today's class she studied about how to build bridges of communication in another culture. 

 hard questions lead to much thinking...

 and much thinking leads to a tired head!

 "Chikungunya" the great fever that has been hitting our area over the last month has been hitting some now the second time around. The second time seems to be a lot worse. TODAY we had 5 more cases and I just got a call from another who is getting the deep joint pain. 

I had mentioned that our supplies were running low and a group sent in funds for us to get more supplies. Some of them came in with Manis & Samuel last Sunday. THANK YOU!!!

Krischelle started with body aches last night and the fever started this morning. As I am typing this my joints are starting to hurt. So this may be the last post for a wee bit. Good times!

Thank you for you for praying for us! 

a visit to Enes's garden...

Enes drives the Lemuel WATER truck. I asked Enes to show me his garden and was I in for a surprise!

 walking, walking and walking some more...

walking DOWN a steep hill...

"It's right over there", he said. Over there was WAY over there!

 At the bottom of the hill a ravine to water animals. Our last rain left water!

 AMAZED! We arrived and SO GREEN! Standing in corn and sorghum. What a wonderful feeling!  

Her first time in "Sweet Water"

Hospitality Staff "Outing" 

Early Friday morning our hospitality staff traveled to a beach resort just outside of Port - au-Prince. For some of our staff this was their FIRST time to really leave the area. First time to travel on the bigger roads and to see some of the larger cities. 

Seeing a MONKEY for the first time!

Our staff have learned skills to serve and host others...it was our desire for them to know what it was like to BE SERVED! They observed what it was like to be received and welcomed to a clean room, clean bathroom and clean yard. One noticed that there were men serving in the restaurant and that it wasn't just women that worked in the kitchen or service area. Others noticed how they felt there was no discrimination between whites, blacks, or status. Everyone was served equally.

HISTORIC
The resort, Mulin Sur Mer was built on a old sugar cane plantation. A museum tour gave our ladies an education in their history of slavery and how they gained their freedom. 

 Then she stood in Sweet Water!

Mme Robert has spent her whole life on the Plateau. This was not her first time to be in the ocean but when she got into the pool she looked at me and said,"If we had this much water on the Plateau we would all be OK! Look how much "sweet water" I am standing in!" 

Her amazement to see so much fresh water again was a reminder that we have no idea what it would be like to grow up in a place where water is so scarce and every day is a battle for the basic necessities for life!