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FL – MS – AL and ID in December 2012

FL – MS – AL and ID in December 2012

From Florida to Mississippi, and from Alabama to Idaho –             We will be travelling a lot this month. Mom is recuperating well from her surgery and 2-week stay at a local rehab center. She is still receiving out-patient physical therapy – until we move her (Dec.11th) to Mississippi, to stay with her son Paul […]
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Surgery in November 2012

Surgery in November 2012

Mom had kyphoplasty back surgery on the 5th. I’m writing this from the waiting room in the Sanford (FL) Hospital. Mom fell again, this time fracturing at least two vertebrae in her mid and lower back. The neurosurgeon is doing microscopic surgery to insert cement to stabilize the brittle crushed bone(s), hoping to not need […]
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Cleared in October 2012

Cleared in October 2012

It looks like we are cleared to go! No, our house did not sell. But a lovely Christian lady from our church will be able to house-sit it for us while we are on our “2-year” assignment to Haiti. Praise the Lord! We are planning to move to Haiti in January 2013, Lord willing. (Yes, […]
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BIBLES in September 2012

BIBLES in September 2012

Will each of the 330 grade One teachers receive a Creole Bible this month? The new Grade One Bible textbooks have been printed, and are being shipped to Haiti. The director of schools for the Baptist Haiti Mission has invited me to give the school coordinators and area teachers an orientation workshop on how to […]
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which summit in July 2012

which summit in July 2012

We’re almost to the top of this Grade Two mountain! By sending two lessons back & forth to Haiti per day, we hope to get this first draft of the Teachers’ textbook finished by the end of July. There will still be several summits to climb after that, including another proof-reading by a Haitian professional […]
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Mountain meanings for June 2012

Mountain meanings for June 2012

« Dèyè mòn gen mòn. » = “Behind mountains there are mountains.” = There’s a hidden meaning to what is being said. A book we picked up in Haiti is called Hidden Meanings (Truth and Secrets in Haiti’s Creole Proverbs). Our own Haiti project gives us another meaning to the above proverb: when we think […]
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Burning in May 2012

Burning in May 2012

“Give me oil in my lamp, keep me burning…” Last month I tried to translate the Haitian Creole greeting « N’ap boule », but I got it wrong. I even used Google, but it does not mean “Not burned”. It’s literal translation is closer to: “We’re burning (right along)“. But I can’t speak Creole yet, […]
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Linked in in April 2012

Linked in in April 2012

Bonjou. Koman ou ye?   N’ap boule, mesi. The common response to “Hello, how are you?” is: “Not burned, thanks.” There are various dialects of Haitian Creole, which are a derivative of French. But please don’t take our word for it, we really don’t know how to speak Creole. We look forward to our two-week […]
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Seconds in March 2012

Seconds in March 2012

Who’s on second?   Well, we are now working on our Second set of 100 pictures for the Firm Foundation Home School curriculum. After Martha collects Bible pictures that might suit the stories in the curriculum, several other missionaries help me critique the content for ideas to give to the artists who will be drawing […]
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Pictures in February 2012

Pictures in February 2012

Three (300) hundred pictures? As if writing seventy 10-page lessons for each grade isn’t enough… Martha is now helping me collect 300 picture samples from which we can get illustrations for these Bible curriculums. Some of these pictures will become coloring pages for primary school children. Others will become the “pictures say 1000 words” that […]
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