Amazing Day in Haiti!

Today was a day full of wonder at what our amazing God can do. All week long, in addition to putting on two VBS's at the two orphanages and mini-VBS's at the well across the street, our ladies have been walking the neighborhood, meeting the neighbors and presenting the gospel message to them. They invited the ladies to a women's Bible study this morning in the Phase One building, hoping they might get 20 or so; over 50 showed up! Many brought their Bibles as well as their babies, and they all soaked up the Word, worshipped and sang together like angels. What an incredible experience for our ladies and the men, too, as they listened to the singing while working! Tomorrow we hope they will return and many more as well. What an impact of Light in this area of darkness!

Our work on the orphanage began this morning with a trip to MSC to replace the generator at the IBG House, which died last night. We will need a mid-size generator anyway when we move the teams to the site, so we decided to go ahead and get one now. It took four big guys to wrestle it off the pickup and into position, but how sweet it sounded when we fired it up!

Meanwhile work resumed on all our projects. Chad and his crew made great progress on the walls for the house parents' apartment,

and the "G" team finished the joists for the porch and all the flooring.

Brad took the lead on the stairs, and he and Graham cut them out and put the them in place from the pad we built in front of the storeroom up to the porch.

 

Brad and Brandy inaugurated them,

and they were immediately put to use for hauling blocks up to be used for the second floor walls.

 

 

One of the other projects was taking down the lean-to we have used for shade and rest since the very beginning of the project. But don't worry, we have carefully preserved all the church autographs on the joists!

 

We also had time for more fill, which made Melissa happy!

And finally, the "G" team was able to frame in the bathroom wall.

 

What an amazing, productive day! We are all feeling so blessed to be a part of the Lord's work here, and to feel His hand guiding us in everything from construction to outreach.

Please continue to pray for us as we finish up our work and ministry tomorrow, and...

 

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