More Clinic Days

The team has been travelling around Port au Prince a bit doing clinics in a variety of places. Each place has it's joys and it's challenges and the team continues to provice some medical relief to individuals as well as be an encouragement where they set up clinic. Enjoy a few of the pictures from the last couple of days.
Erica seeing patients
Esther and Martine, the Haitian nurses that assist Dr. Ed

Greg assisting Dr. Ed with a minor surgery... I don't think many operating rooms have a view like that!The beautiful pharmacy gals, Nicole and Erica Grace filling out a prescription

Karon assessing her patient

Medical Team

A Medical Team has been here for almost a week now... sorry for the belated posting, our internet has been very temperamental lately! Here are a few pictures from their first couple days of clinic at Adoration and a church close to Citi Militaire. The team has been a huge encouragment and blessing to the communities in which they are serving.
Enjoy the pictures!
Dr. Ed and Greg at Registration
Neal with his patient

Helen explaning the medications to a mother and her child

Bernice (aka Beatrice) registering a patient

Neal and Grace consulting together

On the weekend we got to do some sightseeing. We headed downtown to the palace and then up the mountain to The Baptist Mission.

Maia at the "zoo" and loving it!

Levi sporting his pink pants, he's the only man I know who looks good in pink!

The Lost Month of April

Well I just realized that April is pretty much missing from our blog... so this is one LONG post to get you all caught up and ready for May.
This may not be in chronological order but...
we enjoyed the orchid extravaganza (Ian & Nad next time you need to come for this event!) The location was beautiful, the orchids were amazing, the colours were stunning and it was a really nice day out.

That same day we went to a friends house and celebrated her 1st birthday with a pool party! Lots of Maia and Levi's little friends were there so it was fun to watch them "swim" and have a good time together.

Levi and Julianna haning out in the car seat section

Maia swimming with Esther and friends

Adoration Christian School finished up it's second of three controles. We had a program for the parents with awards given out to the top achievers in each class as well as students who always come to school and come on time! The program was well attended and students were eager to get their report cards having done a lot of class time, studying, homework and exams during this second controle. The school is now on the final stretch will school finishing off in the middle of June.

Randy hard at work collecting contact information from families

In between here we had two different visitors come in and join us for a couple days. Pastor Bernie from the PCA joined us for the weekend to visit Pastor Octavius and his family and after him Bernie Pennings from Word and Deed joined us for a visit to discuss the Adoration Project (which is now a project supervised by Word and Deed). Both visits were enjoyable with some intense conversations about the work that is being done here.
And then we celebrated Easter!
Friends of ours had an Easter get together for the kids. Maia had her first experience with painting Easter eggs... too bad she had those hard boiled eggs cracked, peeled and in her mouth before we could get them in the paint buckets!

The kids were told the Easter story using plastic eggs that each had something inside to remind them of a part of the Easter story.

Apparently our Easter weekend was so exhausting that not even Dora could keep Maia awake...

And to finish off the month we've just been doing the regular... eat, sleep and work.

Levi hanging out with big sister Maia

One Happy Little Man!

So... that catches you up on April, hopefully May gets a little bit more time and attention on the blog.

Martelly

Preliminary Election Results are in and it looks like Martelly won with 67% of the vote. We could tell as soon as the announcement was made that the people were happy. There was a lot of yelling, music and victory gunshots in the streets. Keeping Haiti in prayer.

Opa & Oma!

Opa and Oma were just here for a 10 day visit. During that time Maia and Levi got spoiled with LOTS of attention. Maia took full advantage of having Opa and Oma all to herself, just ask Opa how many times he had to read the same book! We enjoyed having my parents around as well, although we got our fair share of whoopings in Qwirkle at least we didn't miss the double Qwirkle for 26 points (Opa!) Thanks Mom and Dad for visiting, for being able to witness Levi's baptism, for taking us to the beach, for playing bocce and Qwirkle with us, for working at the school and for pruning all the trees in our yard!

When we were at the beach with Opa and Oma we saw Jim Carey! It's a little random piece of information but thought it was blogworthy :)

Levi's Baptism

On Sunday March 27 Levi Casey was baptized! He was given the sign and seal that he is a covenant child of the Lord. It was a beautiful service because we could witness the baptism of our son but also the baptism of three other adults in our church who recently professed their faith. God is good! Enjoy the pictures from Levi's special day... The special cupcakes The three adults being baptizedPastor Ben praying for Levi after he was baptizedThe churchMaia and her friend JaydenOur blessed little family The after party... good food and good fellowship!And, one very serious game of bocce!

Mr. Levi

Profession of Faith

The church that we attend here in Port au Prince, L'Eglise Presbytérienne Réformée de Delmas, continues to grow in numbers. It's been an exciting time for our church. A couple of weeks ago they held interviews for people who wanted to become members and as a result of that a number of people came forward who wanted to publicly profess their faith. On Sunday, March 13 we were able to witness this beautiful event. It was an extra special service for us because Cadeau, Samuel and Yder were among those professing their faith. God is good!Pastor Ben and Pastor Octavius reading the formPastor Ocatavius and his father

Board Visit

The last week has been pretty much chalked full with meetings. Carina, Hilary and Steve joined us for a week to discuss future plans of Adoration. It was a good time of reflection and planning. Steve's son Cam also joined us and took some great pictures while we were out and about. Please keep Haiti in your prayers this weekend as the elections are on Sunday and the rumour going around is that Aristide is on his way back to Haiti. Praying for peace.

Dancing Queen