Penguins, Photos and Plans

What a full (on many levels) few days it has been!


As promised, here is Cap-Haitien's infamous penguin! I seriously have no idea what it is doing here, and it's looking quite a bit worse off that in did when it first appeared (think it got hit by a truck or something), but he is still bravely standing by the road with his sombrero.


My class was working through "Measurement" last week, and I love this picture of Sylvio gleefully having his height measured. While he "won" as the classes tallest at 6 feet 6 inches, he was not the heaviest, at under 150 pounds! Everyone loved this exercise as much as they did last year, though their initial predictions that they weighed around 60 or 65 pounds were blown out of the water :)


James and Elisa continue to be a joyful part of life here, and by the time yesterday's "end of the year" soccer championship began, all the students were greeting them by name. Every year each of OMS's ministries have a large soccer championship, and last night the Seminary beat the Church 2-0, so we move on to the championship Friday.


Next Tuesday is the last day of class, so we are all quickly drawing near to the end of our lessons and preparing for final exams. We are saddened at the thought that we only have a few more days in the classroom with the students! The year has flown, so much has been taught and learned and shared, and it is always hard to go from daily communion with each other to not seeing them for 3 months, and some of them, even longer. Elisa took a class picture of my class today, and we'll get one of Matt with his class tomorrow.


James had the chance on Friday to play in chapel (pictured here with Matt translating) and the students LOVED hearing some English worship music. We were reminded again of how much fun (understatement) heaven is going to be, all worshiping OUR God together with one voice, for all time.


This weekend Aunt Lisa celebrated her 23rd birthday, which she's promised to celebrate again with us this summer whenever we are in Ohio! Today marks 2 weeks before we head for Florida, and then begin our 6 weeks of speaking. We are getting really excited about this chance to speak on behalf of the students pictured here, and others...It's going to be a whirlwind! Here is a calendar of our major speaking engagements, and if you have the chance to get to one of these churches to hear about what God is doing in Haiti through the students of Emmaus Biblical Seminary, we would love to see you! We would also love your prayers for this six weeks: that all of our traveling and constant transitioning with Lily would go smoothly, that the Lord would work in and bless many hearts who are able to hear testimonies of what He is doing here, that the short and random times we have with family and friends would be sweet, and that many would rise up to come alongside one of the men or women God is using here to bring Haiti to Christ!


Please email us if you have questions about any of these venues!


June 2nd...We leave Haiti, arriving in Columbus, Ohio on June 3rd.
June 7th...Livingston UMC, Columbus, OH in the morning (www.livingstonumc.com)
Faith Assembly Worship Center at 4:00 pm (www.faithassemblylondon.org)
June 9th...Argentine Nazarene in Linden, MI at 7:00 pm (www.emdnaz.org)
June 13th and 14th...Cornerstone Church in Bear, DE all services (www.cornerstonedelaware.com)
June 17th...Seeds of Greatness Church in New Castle, DE, evening service (www.sogm.org)
June 21st...Sharptown UMS in Pilesgrove, NJ, all services (www.sharptown.org)
July 5th...Wesley Chapel in Jackson, MS morning service (wesleychapel.wbs.edu)
Dayspring Community Church in Clinton, MS evening service (www.dayspringonline.org)
July 12th...New Bedford Presbyterian Church in New Bedford, PA morning service (www.newbedfordchurch.org)
July 19th...Northridge Church in Sabetha, KS morning services (www.northridgesabetha.com)
July 21st...Fly back into Haiti!