Dominican Wrap-Up

Saying good-bye to Rick and Carol, heading home to Canada, as we headed for the DR...

After running over tomato after tomato, we finally caught up with the catsup truck.

This was our one sunny day, our one day in the pool!

Charlie shared with us throughout four different sessions what was on his heart, and his lovely Judi, Hannah, Mollie and Gracie watched and played with the kiddos...All of which: such a blessing.

Three days of rain = lots of Simon Says.

The current OMS Haiti team, left-right:

Erica, Sam and Cammie, Colleen, Brett and Angie, Motoi, Dave and Marilyn, Elida, Kate, Matt and I, and all the kids!  

Hilarious story behind this photo.  

"Who's going to take it?"

"Stacey, ask that guy!  He lives next to us.  What's his name?  I don't remember.  He speaks French."

"Ok.  Will you take our picture?"

Big smile from nameless old guy who speaks French.

"Thank you.  Ok.  We're ready!"

Old guy, looking at THIS group and all these children, trying to think of a word in English that is similar to "cheese" (I guess that's what he was doing), yells, "SEX!"

Then takes that picture.  Then walks away.

About three minutes of "what did he just say?" and "is that what I think he said?" we were all laughing SO hard.  I mean, really.  Is this the kind of group you yell "SEX" at?  Hilarious.

Then our exciting/frustrating day at the border...

complete with dances, singing, and an Easter drama...

Naomy, being dead.

Amazing what a gazebo can do to children.

I love that one of the things our children have learned is to play with anyone, on any kind of equipment, in any country, in any language, and to share with each other.

Retreat, fall of 2011...

and this year.

Then, in the middle of a very sleepless night at The Massacre, Sofie fell off the bed and hit her head and face on the wall.  Her shiner looks 10 times worse by this morning, bus she is still grinning :)  

There truly IS no place like home.  We were all SO glad to finally be home yesterday afternoon, to dye a few eggs, to go through our Resurrection Eggs, to talk to family, and to have all our neighbors over to have some chocolate cheesecake (thank you, DR, for your cream cheese and NorthRidge, for the chocolate!), to watch an Easter sermon from Southland Church from LAST Easter (nobody has up their Easter sermon's from yesterday yet...we tried!) and to watch the Resurrection story from the Jesus film together. 

And to get ready for a new week.

"Is Jesus STILL alive?" Lily asked me this morning, heading off for school, unsure of what to think POST Easter morning.

Praise the Lord, 

He is, 

He is, 

alive, 

alive in me.

***Thanks for your patience!  the final installment of "Wood of the Low: By Streams of Living Water" is coming next...