Routine in March 2013

March 11, 2013

Finding a routine in a new milieu is challenging! We find there is always more than enough work to keep us busy, and we are asking God to give us His wisdom in setting right priorities. I have been able to set up an office corner in one of the BHM offices, and to pick […]

Flying January 31 2013

January 11, 2013

We fly to Haiti, this month! We start by driving from Alabama on the 29th, to take our 30 or more trunks & totes by U-Haul to the Missionary Flights International (MFI) center in Florida. They will fly us to Port-au-Prince on the 31st. The Baptist Haiti Mission complex, where we will be living and […]

FL – MS – AL and ID in December 2012

December 4, 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 […]

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 […]

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. […]