go, go, go with friends!

The last few days have been a whirlwind! On Friday evening, Craig and Debbie joined Don, Jack, Lily, Matt and I down in Saccanville. They came to check out Haiti in preparation for possibly teaching a course at Emmaus Biblical Seminary in April, so we did everything we could to introduce them to the people, land and culture that we have grown to love here in Haiti!

Saturday, we spent the day in town and at the beach, giving us some much-needed time to relax and time to be in fellowship.

Sunday morning, we were joined by some friends and all headed up the mountain to Coup-a-David, the mountain church we love to worship with! It was a sweltering day for November, but the hike was gorgeous as ever, and the sermon was worth arriving drenched in sweat.

It is always a blessing for us to come alongside our brothers and sisters from the mountain ranges surrounding this church, but this was a special blessing for us to do it with friends from 2 countries with 1 God. It also gave us a good opportunity to build some relationships with the some of the women that went with us.

It was a wonderful day!

Monday, Craig and Debbie joined us for campus tours, English and Hebrew class, and Craig preached in chapel. It was a busy day, but we were grateful for a chance to introduce them to some of our students and friends.

My first year English class had lots of good questions for their counselors, like, “What is your temperament?” and “Why do people have psychological problems? How do you fix it?” In a country where psychological issues of all degrees are largely mysterious, untreated and misunderstood, our students had a lot of questions for people who have studied such things!

Finally, last night we went “out on the town” to celebrate my birthday, and all had fried or creole fish and mushroom rice, plantain, militon and icy cokes to celebrate (thank you, Craig and Debbie!) It was an awesome evening!

Lily was SUPER tired, but we had some amazing conversations, much laughter, good encouragement and great music, making the weekend a birthday weekend to remember! (despite my old age that is making it difficult to remember all kinds of things! J

Thank you for all your patience with our very limited internet access! Hopefully, we’ll have internet up and running at the new seminary site before too long!

“I lift my eyes up to the mountains

where does my help come from?

My help comes from YOU

Maker of heaven and earth.”

Ps. 121:1-2