JERRY & JIM & SUE

Jerry, Tom and Troy
ready to leave

Sue Smith assisting Stacey grade
English tests

Jim Smith, Visiting Professor

Jerry Caskey, Visiting Professor

Our first two weeks with guests has now ended and our visiting professors for the next two weeks have arrived. Our new guests are Jim and Sue Smith from Greenwood, Indiana along with an old friend, Jerry Caskey, whom we mentioned in our weekly missives last year.  Jerry is also from Indiana.  No one from the first group that has now left town came down with anything resembling a gastro-intestinal infection so we are guessing the first two weeks were a success.

This past week was perhaps a little more interesting than last. Generally for us things here at the Saccenville compound remain pretty quiet but an exception occurred when the water pump that provides water for the whole seminary called it a day in the middle of the night; but, Praise the Lord, another pump had been delivered to the compound only the day before.  Talk about God’s timing!

Stacey made us all donuts on Saturday
and they were better than the local home choices

We met up with Ruth Leandre, the receptionist at the OMS Vaudreuil compound, whom we hadn’t seen since we left last May.  Ruth was a Godsend when we were serving as Field Treasurer keeping us out of trouble and helping us with the payrolls for the 135 staff by answering our questions.  She and her husband are expecting their second child in March of next year. 

Our second bit of news is not quite as joyful.  Edrice, the foreman/boss of much of the maintenance/construction/security activity at the OMS Vaudreuil compound, came down with cholera this past week and is now convalescing at the Bethesda Medical Clinic at Vaudreuil rehydrating through IVs.  Edrice is such an integral part of everything that seems to happen at the OMS compound.  He is on the mend and everyone is praying for his quick recovery. 

Wednesday we all met for prayer at the Vaudreuil compound.  The have one group from Canada that includes people from Hamilton and Alberta who are working together helping to build a church at Plain du Nord.  Another group is there from Pennsylvania and they are working at Bas Limbe on a solar power system for a church/school, not the one that the work team from St. Andrew’s was working on last year, but the other church/school more in the centre of the town.  Coral Bamsey, from Hamilton, who was with our St. Andrew’s work team, is here again with the group working at Plain du Nord.  She tells us the Pastor Julio whose school we visited briefly last year had a motorcycle accident three weeks ago and his one knee is the size of a grapefruit.  Nothing is broken but can’t bend it either. He probably needs ice but that is definitely in short supply in a place like Haiti.  Coral asks for our prayers for Pastor Julio.

As well on Wednesday Professor Tom Black was teaching Spiritual Warfare for the past two weeks and he provided us with a message on the Sovereignty of God.  The bottom line is that when Jesus Christ died, Satan was defeated.  Praise the Lord.

Another of God's wonders to behold

The peace of Christ

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