Author name: Gospel to Haiti

…albeit not a very fair one, as it involved six people against one hip.  One very stubbornly dislocated hip that took all we had to put back in its rightful place!    I’d seen this little old man carried in earlier in the morning to the clinic by a rather jolly looking younger fellow who […]

Once upon a time….a not-so-very-long time ago….last night, to be exact.  We were sharing a peaceful evening of counting pills around the table, when – in a rather non-peaceful manner – there was a knock at the gate.  Somebody that was a relative of somebody else had gotten beat up by something somewhere. Don’t laugh. 

“Be still, and know that I am God” (Psa. 46:10). The crashing thunder, the stars in the evening sky, the creeping caterpillar, are all signs of God’s creation. He has created these for His glory and honour but do I take the time to stop and enjoy it? Do I stop and listen to what

Thursday morning started out calm and in routine. Walking to clinic, I felt genuinely excited to see what another day holds. I went to clinic early to restock the pharmacy and prepare for my day. After stocking the pharmacy, several of us were chatting in the exam room, when Mali came running in with little

You know the kind of morning when you feel like you spend all your energy just getting up and going?  Well, this morning was one of those mornings. “Oh well, tomorrow’s Friday.” I thought gratefully.   I plodded tiredly out the gate and paused for a second, taking a deep breath in preparation for the

“ Can you please control the patients?” This a common term used in the clinic when we talk about doing initial vitals on the patients as they arrive.  The other day at clinic, I started pondering the meaning of control. In the English language, it means, having the power to influence or to direct the

  Sunday evening, we mission staff planned to head up the mountain to Don Weavers place for supper. A man with a large cut on his chest requiring sutures arrived in a timely fashion just before we left. Donavan left with some of the staff leaving Kindra, Mali, David and I to come up on

…of what’s been going on recently.  And not so recently, as in since the last time we blogged!  :-0  🙂 Really not so much out of the ordinary has happened here the last while though.  Kin and I both went back to the States for a couple weeks mid June, leaving Hans, Mali, and Alyssa

Words fail for me to describe to you our life. The swirl of color in our lives here is amazing! I hope that my camera lens can give you a small insight of our lives. Hans working away on Fre Batel’s abscess. Our dear old man has much to learn when it comes to patience.

Life comes with joys and sorrows, laughter and pain, life and death.. Many times we want to avoid the pain and sorrow and enjoy the happiness in life. However, it is the painful situations that make us more dependant on God and strengthen us. Through these times God can break us and mould us into