Cleared in October 2012

October 18, 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, […]

BIBLES in September 2012

September 6, 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 […]

which summit in July 2012

July 12, 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 […]

Mountain meanings for June 2012

June 4, 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 […]

Burning in May 2012

April 29, 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, […]

Linked in in April 2012

April 1, 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 […]

Seconds in March 2012

March 8, 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 […]

Pictures in February 2012

February 9, 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 […]

Scopes in January 2012

January 13, 2012

What’s the scope? We had a great visit with the Lieb family from Haiti last month, as they were traveling through the area on their “home assignment”. We have since been able to send them a Scope & Sequence proposition, laying out what the Grade Two Bible lessons would teach, along with several sample lessons. […]

AnProFi in December 2011

December 5, 2011

Another Project Finished! The 350-page teachers’ manual for Grade One Bible lessons is completed! It is being printed by the Baptist Haiti Mission, for use in their 330 schools in northern Haiti. This month I will start working on planning the lesson lay-out for their Grade Two Bible lessons. Then in January, Lord willing, I […]