Winter Park Baptist Church

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

We were up and off by 4:45am from the compound in Gr Goave. The 2 1/2 hour ride to PAP airport was uneventful and pretty comfortable. Check in went well and we had plenty of time for coffee, juice and danish in the much improved American airlines terminal. Flight was "wheels up" at 10:10. We landed in Miami right on schedule and believe it or not everyone cleared Customs without incident. After a very high starch, high fat gram American style lunch, here we sit at Gate D48 waiting for AA Flt. 820 to take us on our next to last leg of the journey. If all goes as scheduled, we should get to RDU around 7pm, shuttle to our van , say a few goodbyes there and then drive to Wilmington with the remaining van load. We are all happy, sad, tired, bruised, sore, and assured that we have seen God at work in many ways this week. And we had the awesome privilege and blessing of being His hands and feet.
"Well done my good and faithful servant".

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Fwd: Winter Park team pic

Here we are on Tuesday afternoon sporting our pink bandanas. We worked on even more houses this am, no rubbing. Some built cage walls, but our 10 either dug a foundation, or mortared houses. By my count we completed 4 houses and worked on 2 others plus built walls for another one.

But we have built so much more of eternal value. Tonight will be difficult to begin the goodbyes and to start the process of processing all that we have experienced.

More to come later

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Devotions

We have had some great devotion time this week. We looked at all being part of the body of Christ. We talked about SERVE. George led this to describe it as Supplying Everything to everyone on the Road of life Via the Example of Jesus Christ. Sharon led us one night as well with a lesson based on a Beth Moore reference. Last night we met as one large group(30-35) sharing a time of affirmation for all of the ways we have seen God at work this week. Passages from 1 Col.s, James 2, and Heb. 6 were shared as well as Eph. 2:10.
We have all become very close and are building lifelong relationships as well as building His kingdom.

Today - Tuesday we are going to work on some of the mortar/cement work for one of the houses we rubbled or as the. Haitians say "wubbled".

Pray for us today for continued safety, strength and mild temps. God has truly blessed us this week.
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Monday, May 28, 2012

Fwd: pics and update from Saturday through Monday

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Date: Mon, May 28, 2012 at 4:10 PM
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We finished our fourth house today in an absolutely beautiful setting. I hope the pictures describe it somewhat.

We had the combined hands and feet of around 25 Americans plus another 6 or so Haitian workers working hand in hand to build Madam Ma-mose her new 14x20 house that she and her grandchildren will live in.

Yesterday as described we went to the beach. There is a picture of a tap-tap truckload of us as we hit the scenic beach spot. 23 in a tap-tap according to Tiga(not Yoga as the previous post scrambled) is a pretty respectable number. He says he has seen as many as 30 or more Haitians in a tap-tap.

We are all experiencing so much of God's amazing grace,love and fellowship as we live and work among our brothers and sisters in Haiti. He provided a nice breeze to help us finish the house despite the 100 degree heat. Tonight we are planning on having a combined large group devotion, pray for God to bless our time together as we share together.

Dinner time, so gotta go.

Blessings to all from Haiti!