Back to Life

Well, we, the Lodder family, Randy, Karen and Maia, have been reunited and are in the same country, in the same house! It's been an tough couple of months, many uncertainties and emotions and long seperations, but through it all the Lord has carried us and been gracious to us and we are thankful that we are able to be reunited and return "home".

Being here in Haiti has been a big adjustment for Maia. So far she's been doing well, she's clingy and a mommy's girl but she's slowly starting to play on her own and do the silly things that she was doing in Canada. When we do go out she's got a lot of people in her face who want to love her, touch her and hold her. The problem is they all remember her but she doesn't remember any of them. We're praying that in time she will settle down and remember her Haitian friends who love her dearly.

A bewildered, sweaty Maia

Yesterday we were able to go to the food distribution. It was a high to see a number of students and their parents and they were all super excited to see Maia. Some of them didn't even greet me they were so excited about Maia! The food distribution went well. It's a huge thing for these families to come once a week to get a supply of food. A lot of families have lost a lot... things were tough before the earthquake, now things are even tougher. We are thankful that Adoration is able to provide this short-term service to our Adoration community.

And since we've been back for two days we just picked up our first team of visitors. Wouldn't want us to get bored so we've added 5 more men to the mix for the next 9 days. They plan to continue on the work for the temporary location focusing especially on the little house as well as getting up the rest of the tin on the lean toos. I have a few pics to get you back up to speed since while Randy was in Canada for some meetings some brothers from the OPC church did some work on the property. They finished up the tin on one side so that L'Eglise Presbyterian de Port au Prince could once again meet together. From reading Pastor Ben's blog (OPC missionary) it was blessed time of worship that first Sunday that they were able to get together. We pray that the Church here may love and care for her people who have been through so much in the last couple of months.

Picture below - Office is on the left, lean too is on the right which will eventually have classrooms but is also home to the church

The church, all set up and ready to go.

We will try to update you on the teams work as we go along. Shalom.

Hokey Dinah Look What They've Done!

Well the team has been and gone and they did a TON of work... I think we say that about every workteam but I really do think that this team was able to accomplish way more than we could even have dreamed. They worked Hard! My husband included....

just to prove it here he is hard at work.

Here is my feeble attempt at showing you the location of where the temporary location is in comparison to the old location of Adoration. The bottom half of the page attempts to show how the temporary location is set up followed by pictures of the structures that have been started.

This is the offices. The left side will be for the pastors of the Presbyterian church and the right side will be for Adoration.

Below is the lean-to that will host all of the classrooms for Adoration. The team along with all of our Haitian friends finished putting up the beam for the lean-to which means we just have to throw up the strapping, trusses and tin. This will probably also be the temporary spot for church until we get the "big" tent put up.

This is the kitchen as well as the house for our four young men who will be living on the property for security. The kitchen will be on the left side and the two bedrooms are on the right.

And... the team who sweated it out all week long. Thank you so much to all of you for the blessing that you have been. You have encouraged us in our work and made a huge indent on the work for the temporary location. We pray that the work that you did is a blessing and we pray that you too in return were blessed through it.