The month of March continues to be a busy month as we continue to host short-term teams from all over the world. Yesterday a team from Sandy Lake Pennsylvania headed home, after spending a week on the island. This team brought several nurses and medical professionals and a few handy men. The nurses and medical workers spent their time working in the hospital clinic, organizing donated medical supplies, working with the local orphanage and helping at the house for the poor. Meanwhile the men worked on machines at the hospital and helped Butch with some of his daily tasks like finishing repairs on the Breezy Sea.
A day after the Sandy Lake team came Don Brubaker’s team arrived. This team, from central Pennsylvania, has been working exclusively on getting a house ready for the Adams family, a missionary family that will be arriving very soon to start their 4 year term. Don’s team is doing everything from pouring floors, to arranging plumbing and electric, to tiling, to making curtains and painting flower pots.
In addition to hosting these two teams this past week, we are also still hosting Caleb’s team who has been working with food relief and now construction for churches destroyed by the earthquake. Caleb and his guys have been working both on and off the base. In fact this week, Caleb spent a day in St.Marc at a food relief meeting while two of his team members spent the day with Butch cleaning the sediment out of the town reservoir in Anses-a-Galets.
Tonight we will add two more visitors to the mix when we host two more men who have been working with Haiti outreach. These guys just spent time two hours south repairing a 2000 gallon per minute water pump that services the city there.
And tomorrow we will see one more visitor as we will be working with a geologist from the USGS. The geologist will be finishing up the installation on a seismograph here on the Wesleyan Station. This seismograph will have a real time connection to the USGS network that will help study the faults in Haiti and predict any future earthquakes.
The mission station on La Gonave continues to serve as a center of activity both related and unrelated to January’s earthquake. We will continue in this ministry in the next few weeks as we prepare to host a team of 22 from a group in Scotland. This team will be traveling to different towns in the area each day to host medical clinics. We also have plans to receive a couple other teams in April. As we get into the rhythm of hosting, things are beginning to settle into a new normal here on the Anses-a-Galets mission station. If you could please pray for us as we do our best to divide and direct all of our energies.
Matt
