Luggage in February 2013

February 7, 2013

PTL that all our luggage arrived: with us, and with no customs fees! First we were over-weight for the amount of luggage we had told the Missionary Flights International (MFI) that we would be needing to take to Haiti. We had packed all night long, Monday January 28 to 29th. Then we drove a U-Haul […]

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 […]

Surgery in November 2012

November 5, 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 […]

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 […]