Day 16: cement sealing, masks, other...

This week we finished painting the cement sealer on the outside of the house to keep out the rain. Painting around the rocks takes a while.

We continue to pray for rain, as the local folk continue to prepare and plant their crops.

Thankful for our large water cistern that allows the watering of trees and sharing water until the rains start.

School continues for Fritz but Friday he participated in his first zoom meeting with other Global Partner's kids around the world.

With our limited band-width we could only be on about 30 minutes but the kids discussed things that are good and not-so good right now, prayed and played a scavenger hunt.

Starting stairs

We continue to connect with Eli, Anna and other family as well.

Our older two both donated blood recently. Anna continues to figure out college on-line and we heard sheenjoyed cross-stitching during a class last week.

We are blessed to be able to use the internet to talk and occasionally video with them.

Both Cory and Fritz are helping me make masks.

I pray as I sew.


I can't help thinking of all the small things that come together for a mask: Carol E. giving us the machine; Joy I letting us take it north when we moved; Gerda, Cathy, Aunt Sherry keeping it running for team projects the last 13 years; my 7th grade home economics teacher who worked hard to teach me the basics of sewing; the Agape house kids for braiding yarn ties for me; eye doctor for my glasses so I can thread the needle, Erin's plastic place mat that I drew templates on and all the folks praying.

No masks for sale yet in the village so I'll keep at it. Asked the guys to pray for the sewing machine.

I'll keep making them until: machine dies; someone starts to sell masks in the village; or I run out of supplies.

Other than masks, others in Haiti are also helping by getting out health information and some setting up hand washing stations.

Sadly we heard that yesterday a big pile of buckets were on a street and burned..maybe because people thought that they had the virus on them, maybe because they were paid, maybe because a journalist saying that masks from China had the virus on them and shouldn't be worn, was later arrested... lots of rumors around.

Some don't believe that there's a sickness because as of now very few know folks who are sick.

Haiti has 20 confirmed cases at this time.

Others are just trying to get through today-with food prices increasing sometimes as much as double last weeks and the Haitian gourd dropping against the dollar some are saying that they would rather die fast due to illness than a slow starvation.

Praying for our family and friends. Praying for the world as we lift our eyes to the hills, as our help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.