Bible Curriculum

Yesterday we started working on the grade 3 Bible curriculum. This a huge task and after 2 hours yesterday we had put together the basic information that the people writing the stories will need for 6 of the 40 stories. Thankfully we have some people in the United States who are willing to write the stories for us. This is a huge blessing!!
Once the stories are written they are sent back to us here in Haiti and then people here spend a large amount of time editing them and making sure that they are appropriate for Haiti. We also write application questions, review questions and put a memory verse along with an explanation of that verse.
As you can see this is no small task. I have been overseeing this project for the past 2 years, but have recently been convicted about the importance of putting family before ministry, even if the ministry it super important, my family should come first. My children are my main ministry right now.
I currently do not have the time to spend editing these stories and writing more etc, as well and all the meetings that go with it.
Please join us in praying that God would show us His way of getting this very important Bible curriculum written. It is our prayer that God would send someone here to help oversee this project. There are still many more years of work, since we hope to write a curriculum through 6th grade.

Thanks for your prayers!

Kyrk's Atrel trip and Robert

The past few days have been full of exciting things.
On Tuesday Kyrk took a dutch couple who is visiting up to Atrel to show them where World Servants is working. It is always exciting to show people where we are planning to move to and also to introduce them to the wonderful people in that area. Kyrk was also able to visit with a family that lost everything in a house fire back at the end of February when Kyrk was staying in Atrel. Their home was completely destroyed and their youngest child died as a result of the burns that he received. They have 8 other children and they are currently living with a family member. Through all of this it is encouraging to see how the church community is coming together and helping them is whatever way they can. It is their pray that somehow they will be able to build a new home, but right now they don't know how that will happen.

The children in this picture are 4 of the 8 and the lady in the white dress is the mother. The lady beside her is the lady that they are staying with right now.


This is what was left of their home after the fire.

Overall it was a great trip and Kyrk was able to see the property boundaries and has a better idea now of where we will build our house and put the training center buildings.

Robert started having a high fever on Monday afternoon and when he still had a high fever on Wednesday I decided that it was time to see a doctor. Dr.Bernard a wonderful Haitian doctor that lives and works here at the mission took a look at him and prescribed axocillen and a strong fever reducer. Since he wasn't sure what was causing the fever he also sent Robert for Blood and Urine tests. Taking my kids for things like that is very challenging, so it was a tough things for me. Robert handled it very well and thankfully all the tests came back showing no serious problem.
Then today he has a rash all over his body. We now know that this is what was causing his high fever and we are continuing to pray for his complete recovery.

Great Weekend

This past weekend we had the privilege of going on a staff retreat. It was a wonderful time of rest and relaxation as well and planning. Saturday afternoon we spent time as a staff discussing what we think God is leading us as a mission to be doing and what changes we need to make. It really is exciting to see what God is doing through the Baptist Haiti Mission.
The kids enjoyed the time away as well. I think that the highlight was being able to swim in the pool most of the day on Saturday.
Today was back to our normal routines again.
Unfortunately I have no pictures since I forgot that we had our camera with us.