Best part of the week, hands down, has been SHARON. She's played clinic, she's played church, she's played beauty salon, Bingo, play dough, art school, teacher, and on and on and on. The girls have been LOVING these sweet days with every-game Aunt Sharon, and I've been loving them being loved on, loving having another adult in the house in the evenings and weekends to live-life with, loving having evenings catching up with her. We all need those men and women in our lives we can question and consult with, listen to and grow from, and that's just her. Very thankful.
Meanwhile we've been back and forth to school, teaching, visiting some with the team, and today I'm getting ready for a rather over-the-top adventure of leading the medical team, their translators and a whole bunch of medical stuff over-the-top of the mountains to Coup-a-David for a mobile medical clinic with brother Enick. It's going to be a great day...but has been raining daily, and I've never tried to do it with a traveling pharmacy and dental equipment. We'll all be lifting our eyes up to where our help comes from many times tomorrow, I'm sure! 
We also had the gift of having having Autumn and one of her PT friends over on Sunday...we go way back from the same supporting church, New Bedford Presbyterian Church, and she pops in and out of Haiti and around the whole country like nobody's business. Setting up a physical therapy clinic for Children of the Promise for three weeks finally has her in our neck of the woods, and it was sooo good to have some time catching up with her and meeting Erin, and hooking up Julie with some fellow Occupational/Physical Therapists. I didn't understand a lot of that, but I was glad for Julie to have some people who understand!
(Bill teaches here at Emmaus, but Julie works as a Physio three days a week at the Bethesda Clinic down the road).
Matt had a fabulous trip, including some great services at Southland Community Church in Indiana and a few good days of meetings at OMS HQ. He even more so enjoyed some actual COLD WEATHER, lunch meat, and a Barnes and Nobles :)
We were both preaching at 9 am on Sunday morning, and we were both preaching the Gospel, but that's probably about where the similarities end :)
He was on a stage...I was on a lime green deflated pool raft. He was in the a/c, I was in the sauna. He was talking about God at work in Haiti in English and I was talking about the Christian Life in Creole.
However, a morning of having the chance to share the Good News together, apart, is a beautiful morning.
At 20 I never would have imagined that "Go and Tell the Good News" for Matt and I would be quite so...well..."Go and Tell the Good News"...further proving that He can use us in ways we never imagined...and even in ways we may have frequently asked Him to avoid.
Go do some Gospel today...it looks like a lot of things, maybe some you've never tried!
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