in and out

Hey Friends,

We've been talking lots with our Haiti friends these days and the country is just struggling.

Guesica is back at our home with Leme, baby Yasha, Leme's mama, Jodenel, Esther and baby Christherlie. She's doing a lot better and in a lot less pain, though still unable to walk, and still on blood-thinners.  Thank you so much for praying for her with me, and for Haiti....she is heavy, heavy on our hearts.

As we make shortbread cookies for neighbors, as we walk Lady Jane's dog, as we wait for and build more furniture, as we homeschool, as we laundry, as we make brussels sprouts for the first time and as Matt is loving the work and community at Wesley and as we walk the neighborhood after dinner and finally break down the last of the boxes and as we try to figure this thing all out, we are breathing in and out prayers for Haiti.

To summarize all that our friends are sharing with us is this update we shared on Facebook...

Please continue to pray for Haiti ❤️. The situation is complicated everywhere, but with very little to no testing and medical care available in much of Haiti, continued political instability and deepening mistrust, with people who are sick being threatened even unto death (and corona virus care centers being protested and shut down), with much of the population living without access to online resources, reliable news and social media (and therefore no church...solid, reliable Biblical teaching), with children now missing an entire year of school due to political upheaval in the fall, with sky rocketing food prices, with many out of work, and so many promises for help not materializing...the spirit of Haiti is frustrated, fearful and depressed. What a stressful time for our brothers and sisters. 

Continue to pray that believers and leaders in Haiti—like the men and women of Emmaus—would cling to the Lord and live and preach His truth, life and peace, for God has not given us a spirit of fear or uncertainty, but of power and love and of a sound mind (2 Tim. 1:7). Pray for major and continual physical needs. Pray for His truth in lies, His light in darkness, His joy in depression, His hope in fear.