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Well folks we are home safe and sound , thank you for all your prayers . This is the last entry in our adventure to haiti , God Bless you all , thanks gerry

Hallelujah

It's 9:30pm and we are leaving at 5:30am so this is it folks. Thank you for all your prayers. Please continue until we get back to Canada. We are all going to have so many stories to tell you. Yes, the school is finished. It took us until about 4:30pm to finish up. we then met with Karen, the kids, her staff and the workers on the building project to say our last "good-byes". THERE WERE TEARS.
The children had a special surprise for us. They made cards for everyone of us to say "thank you". We will show them to you when we get home.
Thanks for being so faithful in checking in with us. See many of you soon.

Here they are

This may be our last posting from Haiti. I am not sure yet. I believe that we are about an hour to one hour and a half from completing our mission here - to build the rest of the school. Where has the time gone? We have two pictures to post. One is of the near completed school. The school is now so big that the pic had to be taken from quite a distance away to get it all in the pic. The portion closest on the left is the director's office (it is newly built on this trip; the long portion on the right is newly built as well) The other pic is the morning school session together with the Haiti Team 2207 members standing in front of a part of the new portion of the school.

The pics refuse to upload so I am sending the text and will try later to send the pics.

OOPS We're Sorry

On Saturday we were extremely busy. We were putting a drive on to have the roof finished for the Sunday morning service. We ended up noticing a few problems as we went along. The building was 3 feet 8 inches wider at one end than the other. As you might guess this is a serious problem when you are trying to put a square roof on. Some of the lads were quite excited about this and had numerous opinions about building contractors. But all comments were said in LOVE. Eventually the solution was worked out but it did slow us down considerably and we only had metal on half the roof for the service, so on Sunday morning ladies were putting large sheets and tarps up on the roof to keep the sun off the congregation. I must say we worked harder on Saturday than we had all week. We really pushed it. Everyone was giving 110%. I am so proud of everyone. They truly showed what can be done when "push comes to shove".
On Sunday morning we went over early and set up the school benches to be used as church pews. There were people waiting there when we arrived. We were realy amazed at the turnout. There were 58 people there and the service went for 2 hours. We had a male choir and we sang two songs, "Standing on the Promises" and "Amazing Grace". Luckner lead the service and interpreted for us as well. A number of us spoke or prayed during the service. There was a wonderful sense of unity and joy. Karen seemed to be overwhelmed by the turnout and by the honour that was given her this morning. The Holy Spirit was truly there. The girls from the orphanage sang two songs and there was such joy in their voices!
Pastor Dennis preached a message on the scripture Mattew 16. 13-20 of Christ asking who He was. Everything that morning flowed toghter perfectly, God was surely present and glorified.
We will send a few pics after devotions and work.
Love to all - blessings

We Need To Know

Much of what we have to report is not different from other days. The construction is going on. The good news is that the Director's office ia all but done. It just needs a little more block. The guys did a wonderful job putting the roof on. It took a little bit of figuring to make it match what was already there but they handled it well.
Over on the other side, the last of the columns were done and some of the cross beams which tie everything together were completed.
Windows were put in, but we did run into some problems because the window hole sizes were wrong. But all is well that ends well.
We found that we were running short of some material so we placed orders for them to come in quickly and they did. If all goes well we now have everything we need to finish the project. Some of the labourers were laid off after last night as their sservices are no longer needed. But we will still have seven or eight Haitians working for us today. We have a drive on today so that we can have the roof on for the church service tomorrow. We need to know that you have heard our call for prayer for our dedication service tomorrow. Please let your churches know and get back to us.
Have a blessed day

More Pics

It seems that when I post the names in the label section it comes out not quite right. In the first pic here you see the school cafeteria. When the lady who operates it is finished she folds everything up and puts it on her head and leaves. The other pic is Dave Hobb finishing some cement work.