Showers of Blessing
We are so grateful, that since the end of August we have been receiving rains. The crops are growing and there is beautiful green plant life all around us. We are also praising God that our cisterns are full once again. The 2 of the 3 springs in town are still dry, but we are praying that as we continue to get rain we will see water return to the springs.
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| So encouraging to see green crops growing. |
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| Young boy helping to weed a millet field. |
Meet Johnny
At the end of September we welcomed Johnny Brutil as our first full time staff member for the Northwest Training Center. Johnny has been a huge help and is very eager to learn various construction skills and help out in any way he can. Johnny has been living at the Fermathe campus of the Baptist Haiti mission for the past 12 years and recently graduated from Highschool. We are very privileged to have him working with us in Atrel.
Sewing Ministry
It continues to be a delight to work with the 5 ladies who faithfully come each week to sew. It has been such a fun, encouraging time to interact with these ladies and also help them to learn sewing skills. We are currently working on sewing dresses and doll dresses. This is our first adventure into making clothing and the ladies are appreciating learning skills to help make clothes for their children. Our next step is hopefully little boy shirts and pants (any willing seamstresses out there what to teach this skill. I have no idea where to start :)
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| Modeling the purse she finished. |
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| Our machines were in great need of repair. Thankful Bob was willing to use his skills. |
Gardening/Construction
Thanks to some donations we have been able to keep a crew of 6-8 men working all summer and fall. They have almost finished all the concrete work of the Quonset hut.
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| Johnny and Berend (visitor from Holland) hanging the doors |
The men are now working on preparing the foundation for a school in the community of Marot, that will be finished by a visiting team in the spring.
Mid October we welcomed Bob and Helen Shaw. They are planning to work with us for the next 6 months. Their skills with gardening, sewing and sewing machine repairs are greatly needed and appreciated.
For the past two weeks we had Anita and Berend visiting from Holland. They were a huge help with the construction of our shade house. In this hot, dry environment we are struggling to grow vegetables. We are hoping that this shade house will help us to grow vegetables and trees.
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| The wall are going up. |
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| All the wall built, ready for shade cloth. |
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| Team work to put the shade cloth on. |
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| The finished project. |
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| Sifting donkey poop to add to the soil. |
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| Filling the first bed. |
