May 29th, 2015
May 29th is a day in history when many eventful things happened but today Karen and Todd are both in Haiti celebrating their birthdays with a wonderful team of people from Springdale but most importantly a group of children who have touched so many hearts. For us this is an historic day!
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| Karen & Todd!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! |
The day started with a list of ‘fix its’ and they were no easy task, well not for us amateurs. First we almost had to call Lenora and Dr. Buchanan. Germaine had broken her glasses and we had to repair them. We think even Lenora would be impressed.
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| Repairing glasses |
There were door knobs to be replaced and the words ‘look at Job Halfyard der luh’ echoed by Don could be heard. Meanwhile, Karen was busy sending off her confirmation for her first missionary conference to be held in Gros Morne in August and planning her community talk in Springdale in mid August.
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| Replacing Door Knobs |
Community people are picking up their ‘food for families’ including a 90 year old lady. Heather, Jenny, and Lacee were busy preparing for the 2nd annual Fun Day. We finished the painting at the church and then had our picture taken by the new generator. This was the result of last year’s fundraising efforts by our team. Now Karen and her mission have a reliable power source.
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| Lady and her helper leaving the orphanage with food |
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| Girls preparing for fun day |
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| Picture of Team Springdale with new generator |
After painting in the 40C heat and finishing our ‘to do list’, Karen treated us to a truck ride to the meat market where we bought chicken for Sundays community meal. We then went to Luckner’s store. The men were busy doing manual construction. We enjoyed each others company as we sipped a nice cold drink and socialized. Heather, Jenny, and Lacee made us all laugh. We did a ‘normal’ picture then Jenny and Lacee wanted to do a ‘Heather picture’. Will Haiti ever be the same again??!!
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| Men working at Luckner’s store |
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| Girls ‘normal’ |
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| Girls ‘Heather’s normal’ |
We then went for a ride around the hospital property and the rain began to pour and pour. Again we laughed soooo much.
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| Soaking wet in the back of the truck |
When we arrived back to the orphanage, Dr. Todd, Nurse Jenny, and assistant Heather helped Karen as we held little Anne. She has an abscess to her leg which needed draining and a dressing.
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| Anne after her abscess was cared for |
We ended our evening all gathered at the boys house for a planned sing along and rap with a song authored by Jonathon this week when he said, ”Mama said No No No” … It was a blast and included all the children, our Team, and Mama Karen.
Heather & Todd
6 comments:
Happy Birthday Todd and Karen.
Great Blog, Thanks. Happy Birthday to Todd and Karen. Enjoy your weekend. Stay safe.
Blessings to you all and belated birthday greetings to Karen and Todd. I am enjoying your blogs and watching the wonderful work that you are doing for Karen and for the Lord. You are being the Lord's hands extended to those beautiful children and adults. Keep up the good work and enjoy the rest of your visit.
Happy Birthday Mama and Todd 🎉🎈 sounds like you are all having a blast, and making lots of great memories. Love reading the blogs. Take care and enjoy the rest of your time together 😊.
Janet
What did I say wrong in my first comments????? Not published again!!! I am getting a complex. I try to be good!!!!
Sandra, four times I tried to post this comment from you. The forth time it made a comment in French about this comment and so I decided to copy and paste it in myself. Hopefully this works. Keep on commenting please. I will keep trying to have it posted!!!
Thanks Heather and Todd. Sounds like a fun day, I can't get the video to play but will see what I can do about that soon.
Saturday...hope you get an early walk along the canal this morning and a bit of a more relaxed day BUT you are planning to feed a crowd tomorrow this day will not be relaxed as you will be prepping for tomorrow! I know you are having fun no matter what you are doing so enjoy it all, time passses too quickly!
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