Empty Nesters

Mission to Haiti – April 3, 2011



April sunrise prelude to a hot day

 We are once again empty nesters.  The Seminary director and his family depart for Jackson, Mississippi.  It is the little things that you miss when you are hosting guests, like being able to leave your bedroom door open at night so you can take advantage of the breezes that may blow through the house.  And right now with the temperature in the mid 80’s you want to benefit as much as possible from whatever winds may blow.

In the sun

Our next guest professor was to arrive on Saturday for a two-week period, but has had to cancel at the last moment.  So for the next two weeks we have two overnight guests for three nights, no meals that makes our load a lot lighter than it has been.  With Dorothy sick for three days this past week, all the cooking, cleaning, washing, and whatever fell on John’s shoulders, and if I don’t mind saying myself, John did a fantastic job under extreme conditions.  (He did, too, from baked oatmeal to a slow cooker meal – Dorothy.  By the way, I am feeling a whole bunch better.)

How to cool off at
the admin swimming pool

This past week we have also had the opportunity to meet with Pastor Vilmer from Heavenly Light and Pastor Job from New Life.  Both school programs are going extremely well.  Pastor Vilmer was telling me of the mother of one of his 4-year old junior kindergarten students and how this young girl evangelized her mother who this past Sunday made a declaration at church accepting Christ as her Saviour.  What is the quote, “out of the mouths of babes….?”

For those who were a part of the work team last May, the congregation at Bas Limbe has called Pastor Joel as its new pastor.  There had been a great deal of tension in the church since the early death of its pastor of many years and it now appears that the congregation are all back on the “same page”.  Forty people were lead to the Lord last Sunday.

We have now booked our return flight home with Missionary Flights for May 12^th, will spend a few days winding down, and should be home late on May 18^th.  We will have a heap of things to accomplish, and God willing, we should be back here sometime in late September or early October.  We don’t know yet and will need to wait until we have the final schedule for the visiting professors, among other things. 

There’s lots more to say but because our e-mail/internet continues to be intermittent this is it for this week.

Please continue your prayers for us and the children of Haiti.

May God richly bless you this week.