Friends encourage you.. inspire you.. love you.. laugh with you. Friends will listen to your dreams.. inspire you to dream on.. Friends will love you for who you are. Friends will not only listen with their ears.. they will listen with their hearts.
Our family was refreshed when a breath of fresh air flew into Haiti, in the form of friends, this month. We were happy to welcome Jess and Carol Myer from “home”. One does miss friends when you move and live so far away from the place you called home for many years.. Along with them came many goodies from our friends in the USA. A special THANK YOU to all of you.. It is nice to know you care! Our personal refrigerator now holds many tasty items to satisfy our cravings! … and that box full of Tupperware was a huge blessing… I am enjoying it very much. Thanks again.
One of Jess and Carol’s main reasons for coming to Haiti was to visit the sweet little girl, Karlee, who is presently living in our home. They have been working at adopting her ever since she was a “wee one”. Nice thing about it all is that we share a special friendship with this fun loving, young couple…
They spent almost two weeks with us. During their stay we did some fun things together as well as some work projects. One day, Carol and I enjoyed the forenoon at a typical Haitian market, shopping for fabric. One of our goals was to find a piece of fabric that we both liked and sew ourselves matching dresses!
Another day we drove the winding road across the mountain to the little town of Jacmel. Jacmel is located along the coast of Haiti. The day was gorgeous, with plenty of sunshine and tropical breezes. What better way is there to “unwind” and forget about the stresses of life, than to listen to the ocean’s waves and to sit on a comfortable lawn chair and have the water swirl around your feet? Or to set out a picnic lunch and enjoy homemade hoagies with friends?
The kitchen here at the Leogane Girls’ home got a facelift while Jess and Carol were here visiting! The dusty ceiling fans got a good scrubbing and the cupboards were cleaned and organized. Don even made a new shelf to put into one of the cupboards… a great help to our organizing process! By the end of the day we had changed the looks and the smell of the kitchen…. :) I was happy with the results… and thanks to Carol for her good ideas and for the candles and string lights that she brought along!
Carol also sewed up some nice new curtains for the windows while here.
Another highlight of their visit here was the interaction with the resident girls. We love the girls here and I think that love was contagious!! Jess and Carol “fell in love” with them as well.
Since I was on duty a Saturday during their visit, Carol and I decided to have a sewing class with the girls here. Several of the girls have been “itching” to sew. Carol cut out patches for the girls to make nine patch pillows. The girls were very excited to begin this new adventure. Some of the girls obviously have excellent talent and took a great interest in the project at hand.
As you can see there IS talent here…. Our desire is to find and utilize their talents and to help the girls become all they can be.
As nice as it is to have friends, I think it is just as important to BE a friend! One of our heartfelt desires is to be the kind of friend that these girls need.. to be a loving Mom and Dad to them… to be understanding and caring. And to prepare them to help minister to the needs in Haiti as they grow older. Pray with us that we would have the divine wisdom that comes from God alone as we continue serving here.
Continue to pray for the work here… Pray that God would strengthen the hedge of protection around this mission. Pray that God could be glorified through this work and that His perfect will could be accomplished.
When God’s joy invades our lives, it spills over into everything we do and onto everyone we touch. We will find true joy right where God has placed us….
Thanks for visiting our blog.. God Bless you as you follow Him.
Sincerely,
Karole for the Weavers
Wow- looks like many fond memories were made-have a good day- Gina
ReplyDeleteAnd i want to do that all over again...those pictures bring back so many goooood memories!
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