Mission to Haiti – February 27, 2011
This week the last of our first 2011 group of three visiting professors (VP) left. She took the bus to the Dominican Republic and is taking some time off for an eco-tour in the DR and then home to the United Kingdom. Pam, besides having an M.A. in Theology, is a former biology teacher and has a wealth of knowledge relating to plants and animals that she is more than willing to share. I’m not sure that she discovered any new species but she did add to her list of species that are new to her.
The election continues to be very quiet with both presidential candidates more or less kicking off their respective campaigns this past weekend. Unlike Canada where there are rolling polls to tell us how each political party and/or candidate are doing you must depend on word of mouth and rumour to keep you abreast of what is happening, but so far very little of either to share with you.
We will be leaving on Tuesday for a bit of rest and relaxation in the Dominican Republic at a resort just outside Puerto Plata. It will be so nice to wake up in the morning, shower and dress, and then let someone else do the cooking for a change. We will travel by bus (motor coach) from Cap Haitien to Santiago and then, dependent upon the time and availability, we will take a bus from Santiago to Puerto Plata. Our Spanish is about at the same level as John’s Creole so we can only hope that we will find someone who speaks English when and if we need help communicating.
As we might have mentioned before the church in Sarnia where Dorothy’s brother, Dick, attends gave $6,000 to Pastor Vilmer Paul of Heavenly Light Church/School to help with the construction of a second floor at his church to accommodate the school that St. Andrew’s supports. The Sarnia church held it’s annual meeting this past weekend and Pastor Vilmer sent along an update on the present state of the construction and the role that the church and school are playing in his community. We have attached here the e-mail that Past Vilmer sent to Dick’s church in Sarnia.
“Hello Dear Pastor Dave,
The church is doing well, this past Sunday; we had a wonderful experience having four conversions in a Worship service. Among them the Lord Brought to His pasture a old man who was a franc Masson, he was accepting Jesus under tears. A most touchable one was a prostitute that her job was prostitution and abortion. Tania Jean Franyois was a lost woman, dead in her trespasses, abandoned by her family for her practice, disregarded among all moral sectary in the society, was found by the REDEMING, LOVING, AND THE SAVING LORD. We have a group for evangelism, the old man was invited to attend the worship service, but Tania wasn't, no one will approach her with Christian words, But the Lord did it by Himself, through His infinite grace has found Tania dead and He puts her alive again for His precious glory. The entire church body experiences that event with tears this Sunday; I had to only felt on knees with the church to pray and giving glory to the Almighty one because they all know who Tania was. She used to dress with almost no clothes, half naked when she felt her lost state, she barrow clothe to come to church. My wife so excited about that gives to her enough clothes to attend three following Sunday services. God is building His kingdom step by step. The Building is almost done for the walls. We were doing something more on the downstairs which is affected the original expense plan, but we are in 12 blocs rows all around the building. I will send pictures for you with the report and the receipts.
My family is good, the Lord still our protector and strength.
In the Lord”
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| The welcome John received when visiting Heavenly Light School a couple of weeks ago |
