Congratulations Mary Beerley! You won the raffle! Our English Camp team left today with the Nativity and will be mailing it to you as soon as they get home :)
Rafflecopter randomly selected a winner. The first random selection had not answered the question about a favorite memory or tradition so we had to go to the second and that was MARY BEERLEY!
This was her favorite Christmas memory:
One of my favorite memories is when Jim, my sister Kathryn and i were
stranded on Christmas Eve in Austin. The bridge to my parents' country
home was flooded and we had to spend the night in Austin. We went to a
restaurant that had live music. The band was playing the blues. And i
mean the BLUES! We asked why they weren't playing Christmas music since
it was Christmas Eve... They replied that it was Tuesday and every
Tuesday night was 'Bummer Night...' As i looked around at the lonely
tables of 1, i was struck by how often i had wanted my life to be
different, and i was suddenly exceedingly grateful for my family. My
crazy, stubborn, stupifying, WONDERFUL family!!! :)
Thank you to everyone who shared your stories and traditions. I so enjoyed reading through all of them! May you all have a wonderful, joyous Christmas!
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Thursday, December 12, 2013
BUY A T-SHIRT spread the JOY
December 24th
The Plateau Community
will be celebrating Christmas.
450-500 people will attend
a special Christmas program
and an amazing
Christmas dinner.
December 31st
The Plateau Church
will be having a service
to bring in the New Year
and remember
Haiti’s Independence Day.
The church will be giving
a food package to
50 families in
our community.
For Canada:
For U.S.:
Monday, December 9, 2013
English Camp Has Started (Scroll down for our first giveaway ever!)
Our first English camp of the year is underway!
Merry Christmas! Our First Giveaway Ever!
We are trying something new! (And will appreciate your patience as we work out any kinks!) For Christmas this year we are giving away one Haitian Nativity Scene made out of a coconut and clay figures.
a Rafflecopter giveaway
In order to not have to open the carefully packaged nativity that we are giving away, I have taken a picture of mine. They are all pretty similar, though the coconuts and details can vary a bit.
Ani holding Baby Jesus to give you an idea of the size of the figures.
All figures are wrapped in banana leaves and are inside the coconut.
So, here is what you do... Write a comment below about your favorite Christmas tradition or memory. If everything works right, Rafflecopter will randomly choose a winner. If everything does not work right, we will put all the names in a hat and pull one out! Looking forward to reading your comments!
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Petion and Samuel in Monaco!
This year St. Pauls Church in Monaco raised funds to put the metal roofs on the school building. We have done all the preparatory masonry work and look forward to a team in February who will be helping us get the roofs on.
This past weekend Sam and Petion were at St. Pauls to share with the church how the project is progressing and to thank them for their participation. St Pauls has posted a YouTube video of their report. You can view it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Giving Thanks in all things...
in all things...
This past week we learned that a very dear friend of ours was kidnapped and then brutally killed near his home in Port-au-Prince. His wife was also shot in the chest but has come through surgery and is recovering.
We are reminded once again of the cost of serving Jesus. May we be counted among the faithful who stand firm till we are carried into His presence.
The staff of Lemuel would like to thank you for ways you have come along side us, prayed for us even when you knew little how to pray. Some have come and encouraged the ministry with their presence. Others have sent notes of encouragement to let us know we are not alone in this. WE ARE GRATEFUL.
May you know Him in great ways through your time of reflecting on His goodness to you.
OLAD 2013
This past week we learned that a very dear friend of ours was kidnapped and then brutally killed near his home in Port-au-Prince. His wife was also shot in the chest but has come through surgery and is recovering.
We are reminded once again of the cost of serving Jesus. May we be counted among the faithful who stand firm till we are carried into His presence.
The staff of Lemuel would like to thank you for ways you have come along side us, prayed for us even when you knew little how to pray. Some have come and encouraged the ministry with their presence. Others have sent notes of encouragement to let us know we are not alone in this. WE ARE GRATEFUL.
May you know Him in great ways through your time of reflecting on His goodness to you.
OLAD 2013
Friday, November 22, 2013
Two Weeks?!
How do two weeks fly by so quickly? Now I have a lot to catch up on!
The last 15 days have been quite eventful. On Friday the 8th (the day after my last post) I was talking to Krischelle on Skype when I got a call from Manis saying to please come over to the campus as quickly as possible, Sam had cut himself with the electric saw while working on the church porch roof. I grabbed Ani and rushed out the door only to meet with Manis coming to get me on the 4-Wheeler.
I knew it must be pretty bad and was trying to mentally prepare myself. I am not a natural nurse so I was praying that God would help me do whatever I would need to do. I got there to find Sam's finger wrapped tightly with a cloth to slow the bleeding. I was told he had cut off a piece of his finger but I wasn't sure exactly what that meant! How big of a piece???!!! When I unwrapped the cloth I found the he had cut off basically the whole "fingerprint" part of his left pointer. Then James (one of the development guys) walked up with a folded piece of paper which, I was told, held the piece that had been cut off.
I cleaned Sam's finger the best I could and then called mom (a real nurse) to see if it was worth sending him to the clinic to stitch the piece back on. She said it was so I then cleaned the piece of finger as well as I could, put it back in place and taped it down with steri-strips to hold it while he went to the CAM clinic on the 4-Wheeler. I wrapped almost an entire roll of gauze around with the keep it clean and he and Petion headed off for the clinic. By God's grace Sam missed the bone and Bethanie (the wonderful nurse at the clinic) was very hopeful about the piece rejoining with the finger. Isn't the body an amazing thing?!!
A few days later materials for the school roof arrived! A team will be coming down in February to help us get it on but since Sam and Petion were leaving and would be coming back only a few weeks before the team arrives we went ahead and got the bulk of the materials. I was working on some things at the house when the trucks arrived so Manis ran over to the campus to help them unload and to get some pictures for me. As they were unloading the 2x6s one slipped out of one of the guys' hands and hit James right on the forehead. He crumpled to the ground and for one terrifying second everyone thought he had been killed. Manis yelled for someone to get water and after dousing him, James finally came to. As you can imagine, everyone was quite shaken. In the end James had an awful headache but was otherwise fine. Thank you, Lord!
Unloading the lumber (before the accident). James is in the tan shirt.
All of this has reminded me, though, how much we need to pray, and need your prayers, for safety. Every day things are done here that are dangerous... it is just part of life. Of course as many precautions are taken as possible and everyone tries to be safe... but that fact of the matter is our safety and, more particularly, the safety of our staff is often quite precarious.
On the 15th Sam and Petion flew to Germany. I know they would greatly appreciate your prayers as they will be doing quite a bit of traveling within Europe for speaking engagements.
On the 17th I headed into PauP to meet up with Krischelle and Bonita who were flying back from the US. I had been planning to drive down the following day but when we got up on Sunday Manis said he felt it would be better to leave that morning. There was a strike against the government planed for Monday and no one knew what the roads would be like. I packed as fast as I could and by 9:00 was on the road. Sure enough, the next day the roads were blocked and I would have never been able to get through. Again, Thank you, Lord!
We had a busy time in PauP but all in all things went well and we were able to accomplish all that we needed to. A special thanks to our friends Jenny and Djordjy Compere, Lara Berry and the Broyles family for their help and hospitality!
We got home last night after a long day and an eventful trip and it was GREAT to be home :) I was not able to check my email at all while we were in PauP so please forgive me if you have written to me this week and not heard from me. I will try to catch up soon!
Also within the last two weeks we have been able to triple the cow project participants but that will be a post all its own!
The last 15 days have been quite eventful. On Friday the 8th (the day after my last post) I was talking to Krischelle on Skype when I got a call from Manis saying to please come over to the campus as quickly as possible, Sam had cut himself with the electric saw while working on the church porch roof. I grabbed Ani and rushed out the door only to meet with Manis coming to get me on the 4-Wheeler.
I knew it must be pretty bad and was trying to mentally prepare myself. I am not a natural nurse so I was praying that God would help me do whatever I would need to do. I got there to find Sam's finger wrapped tightly with a cloth to slow the bleeding. I was told he had cut off a piece of his finger but I wasn't sure exactly what that meant! How big of a piece???!!! When I unwrapped the cloth I found the he had cut off basically the whole "fingerprint" part of his left pointer. Then James (one of the development guys) walked up with a folded piece of paper which, I was told, held the piece that had been cut off.
I cleaned Sam's finger the best I could and then called mom (a real nurse) to see if it was worth sending him to the clinic to stitch the piece back on. She said it was so I then cleaned the piece of finger as well as I could, put it back in place and taped it down with steri-strips to hold it while he went to the CAM clinic on the 4-Wheeler. I wrapped almost an entire roll of gauze around with the keep it clean and he and Petion headed off for the clinic. By God's grace Sam missed the bone and Bethanie (the wonderful nurse at the clinic) was very hopeful about the piece rejoining with the finger. Isn't the body an amazing thing?!!
Sam continuing work on the church porch roof with his injured finger.
A few days later materials for the school roof arrived! A team will be coming down in February to help us get it on but since Sam and Petion were leaving and would be coming back only a few weeks before the team arrives we went ahead and got the bulk of the materials. I was working on some things at the house when the trucks arrived so Manis ran over to the campus to help them unload and to get some pictures for me. As they were unloading the 2x6s one slipped out of one of the guys' hands and hit James right on the forehead. He crumpled to the ground and for one terrifying second everyone thought he had been killed. Manis yelled for someone to get water and after dousing him, James finally came to. As you can imagine, everyone was quite shaken. In the end James had an awful headache but was otherwise fine. Thank you, Lord!
Unloading the lumber (before the accident). James is in the tan shirt.
By the time the guys finished it was dark. The color of the roofing was a bit of a fiasco as they didn't have enough of the color we had originally chosen, but in the end I really like it :)
All of this has reminded me, though, how much we need to pray, and need your prayers, for safety. Every day things are done here that are dangerous... it is just part of life. Of course as many precautions are taken as possible and everyone tries to be safe... but that fact of the matter is our safety and, more particularly, the safety of our staff is often quite precarious.
On the 15th Sam and Petion flew to Germany. I know they would greatly appreciate your prayers as they will be doing quite a bit of traveling within Europe for speaking engagements.
On the 17th I headed into PauP to meet up with Krischelle and Bonita who were flying back from the US. I had been planning to drive down the following day but when we got up on Sunday Manis said he felt it would be better to leave that morning. There was a strike against the government planed for Monday and no one knew what the roads would be like. I packed as fast as I could and by 9:00 was on the road. Sure enough, the next day the roads were blocked and I would have never been able to get through. Again, Thank you, Lord!
We had a busy time in PauP but all in all things went well and we were able to accomplish all that we needed to. A special thanks to our friends Jenny and Djordjy Compere, Lara Berry and the Broyles family for their help and hospitality!
We got home last night after a long day and an eventful trip and it was GREAT to be home :) I was not able to check my email at all while we were in PauP so please forgive me if you have written to me this week and not heard from me. I will try to catch up soon!
Also within the last two weeks we have been able to triple the cow project participants but that will be a post all its own!
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