I will see you again

It’s not a goodbye but I will see you again….

Last full day started as great as all previous days, with a magnificent sun rise. Had a conversation with a young lady in the computer room, turns out the she is a reporter for newspaper and was on the ground in Haiti one day after earthquake. She showed me some great pictures from that visit, I told her about our walk in Haiti. Rene and Frenzy showed up on time and started the prep work to mount the truss. Rene was welding overhand, underhand and in all different positions, I am very proud of both of their progress. Truss was mounted, two beams installed and it was time to say I will see you again in July….it was sad.

I was able to spend some time with Miriam, showed her how the iMac works and went over few of my videos (she was moved). The girls from the orphanage were working with a music teacher all afternoon, so we went over to the church to listen to them, they sounded great. At the end the boys joined them on the stage as well and all the kids sang. It was great!

After dinner, I was the support person for Miriam’s presentation of her vision. We met with two groups that are interested in rebuilding current New Life Children’s Home facility and interested in building a 36 bed hospital in Pistel, Haiti. We had a very productive meeting and I was honored to support Miriam in her vision. Due to this very important meeting I missed the devotional for the kids, so I could not say my “I will see you in 3 months”. I did managed to send the bubble gum with Sarah for the kids.

Why did God make leaving such a sad event when arriving is such a joyous one?

I will show up on these pages once again in 3 months, but this is not goodbye, I will see you later!

Just another Friday

Friday, just another day in Haiti, Rene and Frenzy showed up early and started to work on finishing fabrication of the truss. Frenzy had to leave at 9:30am to attend to some business, but Rene stayed all day. While Rene worked on the truss, I started to assemble bed parts (since boys were in school today0. By mid morning Bob was free to help me and we started to set posts for the truss. Posts are no more than an old rail from the railroad and it’s very heavy. Rene help us mix concrete in after lunch and both posts were completed before end of the day. I did ask both of them (Rene and Frenzy) to come back tomorrow to set the truss and beams.

I also was able with help from Windsor to preassemble all of the beds that are going into the other guest house. Beds could not be finished since the tile floor is not finished in that house.  

This afternoon I also had a talk with the girls that sing as a group (they did not want to sing another day). We talked about God and gifts that He gave us and how we use them. I don’t know if that talk worked or Miriam’s conversation with all of them later on but when they sang inside church later on, the whole neighborhood heard about our God! It was awesome. We have a tentative schedule to record them tomorrow (we will see how it goes then).

Friday night, just another night, but tonight after quite a warm dayit  is a movie night. First of all, Sherry and Danny are going home tomorrow (for a month), so they both addressed the kids (and it got emotional). Also, the kids have been so great helping out on the bunk beds and I wanted to thank them for all the help. Since there were so many of them that were involved, I had to recognize all of them. So we had ice cream as a treat. Sherry told me that last time they had ice cream was at Christmas, and few of the kids have never seen and tasted one. So once the single serving tubs were distributed, it was fun watching kids scoop up that frozen treat! An animated movie started right after that, but this old man was not interested.  

Tomorrow is a last full day at New Life Children’s Home, I am looking forward to see what God will put in front of me!