“Constri kay” (build house)
April 22, 2010
“I’m havin’ a good experience. Life is pretty good, and the ministry school. After I was walking back and thinking about how everything is devastated by the earthquake here on Jan 12 and how Ricardo and Rodney teaching about…reality, and how God’s word is Real. That’s the only thing we have that’s real. And the devastation we have from the earthquake, we still remember how important God’s word is to us. I’m learning, life changing. You know you can go through a crisis and you don’t really think, crisis comes, and you’re reminded of how small you are and how big God is. It really brings out how big God really is. It’s been really rewarding. I’ve enjoyed going to ministry school, learning with the Haitians, learning God’s word. …working, it’s been great. When you finish with a house people all smiles, a little house to keep their things from getting wet and live in. It’s overwhelming. They try to talk with you and help you, they bring us water, everyone is happy that we’re here…It’s a good experience for anybody. I’d encourage anyone to experience what I have down here, the culture and how they live. You have to experience it first hand to understand. I can’t comprehend what it must’ve been like to go through the earthquake…it’s been good. ” ~~Ivan Stoltzfus
We saw 116 patients today. Tomorrow Quisqueya can’t send me any medical staff. They are spread thin and closing in 3 weeks. I have no idea what we’ll do then. For tomorrow I asked God “what will I do??” So we will commence our first health teaching day in our neighborhood! Topics will cover the most frequently seen conditions: Acid reflux, high blood pressure, diabetes, fever, skin diseases and preventing infections, women’s health, and fever.
We put up 7 houses (sheds) just this week already. We’ve been doing about 2 a day, at least 11 a week. We have 14 left here and more (hopefully) coming in another shipment.
There are 30 regular students coming to the nightly Ministry School. But usually 45 show up everyday. Ricardo taught Mark 8 today. Tomorrow all of our campers and the Ministry school students will read Luke 1-3 and teach on Mark 9. On Fridays it is open to anyone, hopefully everyone we invited will come tomorrow!!
Thank you for all of your prayers!!