Hurricane Tomas

Our yard tends to flood very easily…so after 3 inches of rain on Thursday night, this is what it looked like…

 

this is taken on the porch of the main house

 

between the main house and the wall against the pastor’s house.

   

 

Friday afternoon we piled onto the truck and drove around the town of  Leogane.

This is about a mile down the road from our yard.

 

For those of you that have been looking at cnn pictures (mainly my dad :), this picture may look familiar.

 

pictures of this river were also on cnn’s website. normally it’s very calm and shallow.

 

 

a row of UN trucks

 

this little boy got creative and found something to float across the water in. 

 

Thanks to everyone who was praying for us!! We had some rain, but very little wind…nothing like we were expecting. Continue praying for the people whose houses are sitting in water and have no dry place to sleep. -Mandie

miscellaneous happenings…

 

looking for gray creature(s)

 

in the kitchen…

 

a sunday evening that consisted

of playing dutch blitz and finishing up

the pudding. :)

 

dieuvenise helping tena sift flour

 

a new punishment. dieuvenise and

janise  were having a hard time getting

along so i tied their wrists together and

they spent a few hours like that. i didn’t

tell them they have to sit, but at this

point they were choosing too. needless

to say, they weren’t feeling very

photogenic. :)

 

 

my brother Matt came to visit!!!

 

 

out on the job

 

some of us toured this massive structure

they call the Citadel.

 

 

a birthday party for Deborah

 

Some kind of flu bug has been making its’ rounds

here the last few days. Pray for health!! -Mandie

trust

 

Trust is not a passive state of mind, it is a vigorous act of

the soul. By which we choose to lay hold on the promises

of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at

times seeks to overwhelm us. –Jerry Bridges

the little surprise

last friday morning we told the girls we have a

surprise for them in the evening. kristi and mike

made ice cream and we took it up to the girls’

porch to eat. sometimes it’s fun to celebrate for

no particular reason. :)

 

 

 

1st day of school

Today is the girls’ first day of school. To say they

were excited would be understating the facts.

They are attending school outside our yard…

just down the street. Pray for them as they study

and adjust to the change of schedule this will

bring…

 

 

the coffee shop

back in july when laurie was here, we went spent a day in at Port. did some shopping along the road, stocked up on vanilla, spent time at this coffee shop relaxing, and then picked up a work team at the airport.

sitting at this coffee shop tends to make you forget you’re in haiti…air conditioning, english reading material, and coffee drinks…. :)