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We were so glad to have the group from North Carolina come and do a clinic in BeauChamp.  Dave and Sue Gagnon, Gloria, Virginia, Pam, Jamie, and interpreters Malinda, Marvel and Vogly worked very hard with the clinic.  Over the next few days they saw around 155 patients.  
 
 
We went to the market in BeauChamp on Friday.  Market day is always busy.  Our little town is like a ghost town on most days but on Friday it becomes a a fury of congestion.  A few thousand people buying, selling and bartering their goods – beans, rice, vegetables, clothing, cooking items, livestock, butcher shop area — anything that does not need refrigeration.  We bought several items that day.  Virginia and Pam haggled over the price of underwear  – when they learned what the real price was (Haitian dollar) they were embarrassed and Marvel took them back to the lady and they bought some underwear from her to give to  the children.  When they learned that $10.00 Haitian dollars is only a little over $1.00 US dollar the price did not seem so bad!  
 
 
 
On Saturday morning they flew kites with the children. …

As I am trying to pull my thoughts together for this blog I cannot help but be in awe of how much the Sewing Hope Program has grown since its inception.  I started with 5 ladies and now have 16 ladies in my employment.  We have been making blankets for the mission programs, studying the bible and having prayer time for the last year-and-a-half.  I have prayed and asked God for wisdom on how to direct these ladies and this program.  I have gotten some glimpses of what I think God would like.

 
God has answered and new things are in the works for January 2010.  I put out a plea for treadle sewing machines and one of our preacher friends responded.  His church has donated 5 treadle sewing machines and hopefully we should have them by January.   They then asked Mike if we had a project that his church and another church could help with when they come in January  as a mission group.   I said yes! –  a sewing room would be wonderful.  They have provided half of the funds needed for this room but we are …

 
Our Prayers are finally answered.  After going almost 3 weeks without any rain everything here was dry as a bone.  This morning the thunder woke me up before 5:00 a.m.  It was strong thunder — the type that shakes your windows.  As I listened to the thunder I prayed, Lord please let it rain.  We need it so bad. I lay there trying to go back to sleep but could not.  I kept wondering if it was raining.  Finally I got up at about  6:00 and was disappointed — no rain.   The rain has gone all around us lately leaving everything parched and thirsty.  I looked on the internet site I have marked for storms and it showed a big storm moving off to the west.  I could not believe that this rain was going to miss us again.  But finally at about 7:30 the rain began to fall.  
Rain changes everything in Haiti.  As the rain began to pour down we knew that no one would be coming to church this morning.  We began catching all of the water that we could.  When the barrels were full we started …