Full, Final Team Day.

Pastor Jonas

 WHEW!!! Everyone's walk speed slowed down today especially this afternoon.

After breakfast Pastor Jonas can up and talked about his jobs [Pastor, District treasurer, Grade school administrator, in charge of campus, on hospital board, student of education ......

After answering questions from the team we prayed for him.



Then I headed out with the team following John Pierre to visit the 6 homes he'd prioritiezed as needing prayers for illness and health.

Several of the people were young people who's health issues [head aches, foot swelling, abdominal pain] kept them from going to school or forced them to return home after starting college in bigger cities.

 After singing a short, Christian song or sharing a verse we'd pray [one in English followed by one in Creole] and then take pictures if folks were willing, which all today were.

Leaving the first house we met the next door neighbor by the gate who requested we come to her house for a moment and pray for her and her family.

So we did.

We made a total of 7 visits during the morning walk.

We prayed for one lady who's 92 years old and suffers from sores that open monthly and from body weakness and pain.

We also prayed for a couple. He's been sick for over 9 years following 20 days of 'uncousiouness' I'd guess he had a stroke.

He's 80 and the wife is 70. They live alone in a partially build house because all of their 7 children live in bigger towns. They accepted the Lord as young people.

Because we'd passed the rice/corn mill on our 2 hours prayer walk we stopped in for a quick look before returning to campus.

Lunch. Put laundry out. Rested a bit.

At 2 Fre. Dieucel who works with the school stopped in to tell the team thank you and pray with them.

His jobs include school administration, pastor of a church in Cap Haitian, a college student in seminary with over  a year to go, Kid's club leader and a new position on the Book Herder's commiett.

Following today's pattern after asking for specific prayer requests we prayed in both languages.

Pastor Jonas's family.

Then we visited Pastor Jonus's house and prayed with his wife and three children.

Next Pastor Emmanuel's home and prayed with his wife, one son, grandson and himself.

Then just after 3 p.m. we arrived at the church for the last Bible class. Only the children who lived on campus had arrived and each received a small banana.

To fill a bit of time while we waited we did a bit of question and answer with John Pierre and he took the opportunity to thank the team for all that they did.

 Even the Kid's Club leaders appeared to be on low energy but once we started and more children arrived the pace picked up.

Today's story consisted of the firely furnace. Then they learned a verse. To the delight of all the children each one of the team was called up one by one to lead 'Head, shoulders, knees and toes' first slow and then fast.

When we finished as a whole group the 20th time we still needed more energy to get through several verses of Father Abramam and Deep and Wide.

Stickers and then one young lady thanked the team and a second one prayed for their trip tomorrow.

Cory took part of the team up with the truck to the cell tower while the others started to pack and put things away.

I'll share tonight about prayer and we will have a wrap up time with the team.

Tomorrow they need to leave campus at 5:30 a.m. to go to the airport. Please keep them in your prayers. Thank you to the sending churches and families who shared these special people with us.

Dentist visit, paint and more cute children!

Today started sunny outside but windy through out the day with afternoon clouds. The team's attitudes remain sunny!






This morning following breakfast they headed down to met our new local dentist, Dr. Winick.

They talked with him a bit, saw his space [my old examination room] and prayed with him.

This afternoon Dr. Winick heads to Port-au-Prince so he can catch an MAF charter tomorrow morning to LaGonave.

This will not only be his first ever plane ride but also his first time joining a Starfysh work team.

The majority of the team started a new project of painting the new office space for Compassion's Child Surviver Program.





 Being in the middle of classrooms and the school day they could not enjoy boisterous singing or loud music but they painted well despite this limitation.



During the morning preparations occurred for Bible class number two. David and Goliath.

Last night we discussed some slight changes that may improve the class so we will see....


Lunch consisted of Haiti's traditional Independence Day meal of pumpkin soup paired with fried breadfruit and a soursop /corossol milk drink.

This afternoon I'll estimate we between 165-175 children.

We sang, enjoyed the story of David and Goliath, sang, worked on a verse and prayed.

A few of the children like yesterday asked to pray to accept the Lord.


The handing out of stickers worked 100% better as we had folks at the doors while other's handed out stickers row by row.

Once you received your sticker you could quietly leave and walk to the volleyball court for a game of musical chairs.

We needed to stop a couple times for noise control and try to get the children to listen quietly but all and all everything went well.

Massage class set for 2 p.m. on Friday and more painting. Because of afternoon volleyball matches in Port Margot there will be no Bible class. Some people asked for massages so will see how that goes tomorrow morning and a class at 2 p.m.



Supper tonight consists of leftover beef potpie, pumpkin soup, salad and a new dish for the team of sweet potato casserole.

We enjoy the devotional time with the team and hearing different people's special 'God moments' of the day

High Energy Bible School!

WHEW!!! Day one of Bible school completed. But let me first welcome the folks following the blog to support and check up on the team members. WELCOME and thank you to those praying for the team.

This morning sunshine greeted the team and the birds sang them up the hill to breakfast. Cory grated some Haitian chocolate for hot chocolate and showed the team the fresh coco beans in a pod.

Most of the team accompanied Cory this morning to Port Margot where they visited the market much to the delight of the merchant who makes small tin kerosine lamps out of tin cans.

They shopped and toured the bakery bringing back a couple different types of bread for our enjoyment. And they stopped in at the Port Margot Wesleyan church as well.

The road to Port Margot was open but they saw 4 locations on the way where the road could be blocked as the protests about the road conditions heat up again.

Two locations had rocks across blocking the bigger trucks and two locations still contained smoldering tires.

The sun not only charged up the batteries but dried two loads of laundry.

This afternoon's activities started slowly. The few children who arrived on time at three took turns leading some songs and explained that because of the big market day the other children would be late.

A small electrical issue also caused a delay as extension cords needed to be located but we enjoyed the singing while we waited.

The puppet team preformed while an English and Creole speaker narrated the story of Noah and the ark.

They did this twice as the first time only about 1/3 of the children were present and by the end over 140 children arrived. In between the stories we sang, did some questions and answers, prayed, explained the story again, and took some pictures.

 A bit of exercise occurred with the songs Deep and Wide and verses of Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes. 

We learned the the Creole version ends with "eyes, nose, mouth and ears' but the English one on a CD said 'clap your hands and praise the Lord.'

So after a few false starts we were able to combine the two last lines into one verse.  After the second story time we reviewed a verse.

Following prayer and announcements about tomorrow's class and a reminder to bring their friends we distributed rainbow representing yarn [that could be braided into bracelets] and some stickers. At this point the crowd control got a little weak!

Some of the children went down to the football field for some races: after twirling one's forehead on a length of bamboo in a circle 10 times, which of the three folks can reach the tree first. One little guy made it about 2 steps and just decided that stretching out on the lawn was a better idea that running.



Library cards printed today and stamped on the backside. Once the family information is added we will number the cards and laminate them. 

Sunday in Pictures.

Morning Church.

Kid's Club

New friend?

Leadership & team-sharing prayers.

John Pierre accepting new outreach tool. Thanks!

Enjoying watching the children.

New Friends.

Too much fun for some.