Give us this day our daily bread…
Immediately following the Earthquake it became apparent that food was going to be an issue. While Shelley patrolled our neighborhood to find wounded people, I began to cook food for all the people that would be staying at our house. Our 35 gallon Propane tank had fallen over during the earthquake, hissing from a cracked […]
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Please check out the link for our friend Jocelyn’s journal who pretty much recorded the daily events at the Apparent Project house in Port au Prince over the last two weeks. Blessings Abundant!
“Everything that can be shaken will be shaken”
If you want to know how to help RIGHT NOW, please skip to the bottom of this Blog. Below I am just giving my story of the earthquake and letting friends and family know what’s going on. Well, after days of trying to just secure survival for a handful of families, I have found an […]
Groucho Marx Glasses and Bandaids
Among the new and old things that I have learned is that both bandaids and Groucho Marx glasses were crafted with white people in mind. But it sure was hilarious to see our 14 beaders and jewelry makers sporting them for our first annual Christmas party! We had such a great time. In my mind, […]
Empowering Artisans
Saturday was a big day for us. We had a booth at the Quisqueya Christian School Christmas Bazaar. Since most of the jewelry that our artisans make gets flown stateside, our ladies ( and young men too) never get the opportunity first hand to see their jewelry sell. I asked the ladies who might be […]
Thanksgiving and more
Well, we had Thanksgiving two days late, mostly because I forgot about it and didn’t take the turkey out of the freezer in time. (Yes I was able to locate a relatively inexpensive Turkey at Megamart and was so pleased that I bought two!) We didn’t really have any plans for who would be eating […]
Good news all around.
Today I am thankful for much.The day started out with me taking the new pregnant teenager (whose name happens to be Ketsia- very close to my Keziah!) down to Heartline to give the Fetal Heart Rate monitor a whirl.When we arrived, they had just had a healthy baby girl born that was only a few […]
Belly Blows and Belly Aches
Today was one of those long and dramatic Haiti days. Our ladies were beading today and Beatrice informed me that after her husband beat her daughter unconscious last week and had tried to stab her this week, that she was finally leaving him. Whew… if that wasn’t heavy enough, she informed me that there was […]
Sonia’s story
The ladies have been working hard getting ready for Christmas. We have several jewelry parties going on and a local Christmas bazaar where we will sell and spread the word locally here in Haiti. Today Sonia came over a little earlier than the rest of the ladies to work on her paper beads. It was […]
Generosity crisis.. and how to really help!
Today I opened my email and almost fell over. We had a cheerful thank you note from the mail service provider that we use telling us that we had been charged $456 for shipping service for the month. This fee comes after the almost $200 we paid in customs fees on top of that. I […]
