Live a Life of Love

Don has been having devotions with the little girls in the morning, since Dou and Trish are in Ohio. He decided to make a study on The Ten Commandments. Each morning he took a different commandment and talked about it with the little girls, (using Cristelle as an interpreter. They also worked at memorizing the Ten Commandments and said them together.

After he finished the list of ten.. he pointed out several verses in the Bible that talked about the “greatest” commandment. The greatest commandments, Jesus said, are these.. to love the Lord God with ALL your heart, ALL your soul, and ALL of your mind and to LOVE your neighbor as yourself.!..

Perhaps we think it is easy to love God with all our being. But Jesus did not stop there… He told us to love others as we do ourselves. That is where the real test comes in!

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples if ye have love for one another.

Let us ask God to fill us with His love and to share it with those around us. This is my desire… Let us love the simple.. the ugly.. the unkind..the “underdog”.. Let us accept each other as Christ accepts us.

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I would like to share some recent pictures with you… They tell you a bit about our lives here in Haiti.  This is Dale.. he enjoys being a big brother to the little girls that live here and they love to “carry on” with him!

Dale doesn’t spend all his time playing with the little girls.. he does a lot of work around here as well… This past week a native was hired to fix the pavilion’s thatch. Dale “hauled off” with the old thatch and burned it.

Don has been very busy like usual.. One of his recent projects are building a small shower house and jiffy jon in preparation for our youth group that is planning to come in January. Our youth decided that they want to help us with a project on the land that we bought here in Haiti.. (in hopes of building a children’s home someday.) While our youth are in Haiti, we plan to build fence around some of the property. There are no buildings on the land and we thought perhaps they would appreciate a jiffy… :)

The little girls have taken advantage of these “new houses” and were happy to move in!

It is fun watching them play! And interesting too how some of the simplest things can provide them with hours of entertainment!

We have a well with a pump on the mission property and you can guess… children love water! I managed to get several good pictures of some of the little girls playing with the water.

Doesn’t that look refreshing?? :)

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The mission here has had a number of changes recently… Several of the workers decided to terminate.  Because of that,  the mission has hired three new ladies. We are enjoying them a lot and they seem to enjoy their new jobs.

They also enjoy my camera!

Here is a picture that I took of Erik and Annette:

 

We had a Christmas celebration this last week.. After I edit those pictures I want to share some more pictures with you all…

 

Thanks again for visiting our blog.

Wishing you a blest week!

Love to all~

Karole for the Weaver family

Sunday Morning

 

Dear friends,

I know it has been awhile since I did a blog and perhaps you have forgotten about us, but we are still here and we covet your prayers more than ever!

Our love for Haiti and the people of Haiti has only strengthened. But our burden has become heavier. In spite of the beautiful sunny days, there is a spiritual darkness that seems to overshadow this country. A spiritual darkness that only God and His mighty army of angels can pierce.

Please, please continue to pray for us as we seek God and His PERFECT will for our lives and as we continue to reach out and minister to the needs of children in Haiti. We have no doubt that God lead us here on a mission to help children but sometimes it is hard to know exactly how He wants us to fulfill that mission.

Yesterday was Sunday. I decided to start on my blog by taking some pictures. The first pictures I took were of palm trees and the blue, blue sky above.

It was a lovely morning, not a cloud in the sky, just a beautiful, breathtaking blue.

I also decided to take a few pictures of Karlee, patiently waiting on “Daddy Don” to pick her up and carry her over to church.

This is the smile that she gave “Daddy Don” when he came for her! She has a special spot in her heart for him! :) And shouldn’t she? He does a great job fulfilling his role as daddy. Keep praying for Karlee and her situation… Her adoptive parents are very eager to have her adoption finalized and have the hopes of a January- February completion.

Since the church that we attend is next door to our compound, we can walk to church. This is the path outside our walls, leading to church…

And this is the entrance….

We enjoy the singing at our church but are not able to understand the preacher! He talks a mixture of Creole and French, (at least that is what they tell us!).

Since I cannot understand very much of what is being said, I like to read my Bible and quietly commune with God. Sometimes it is rather hard to focus because of the loud preaching…. :)

Yesterday I was reading my Bible and looking for a verse to “hang onto” this week.. I found many good verses but finally decided to use the verse on the wall in front of the church. I could not read or understand the verse but I looked up the reference in my English Bible and I liked it very much!

I used the picture that I took of the blue sky and wrote this special verse on it… in English:

 

However, I didn’t stop with that verse… the next one spoke to me as well.

I am going to end this blog here.. with the hopes and plans of doing another one very soon! Perhaps tomorrow! :) I want to take some pictures of the little girls that we love to care for etc… and share a few changes that have been going on here.

I hope and pray that these verses speak to each person that reads this blog. Wishing you all PEACE IN CHRIST JESUS!

Love to all,

Karole ~ for the Weavers