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Now it is a couple of days beyond our anniversary but I thought I would share with you our wonderful evening.  Mike and I have been married now for 35 years — kind of amazing since all of our friends thought that we wouldn’t make it past 6 weeks!  Two hard-headed, strong-willed teenagers — just wouldn’t last.  But, I knew that God had a plan for our lives from the very beginning.  We have definitely had our share of rough times but when you realize what the word commitment means then you look at things a little bit differently.  I thank God for a partner that loves Him and puts Him first.
Mike was so creative for our anniversary this year.  Haiti is not the most optimal place to celebrate — there is really nowhere to go especially out in BeauChamp.  So, he made a little tropical paradise up on the roof.  He put a string of lights and a lighted palm tree up (powered by solar) and made a little table covered by a beach towel, dolphins and manatee statues, and of course a surfer guy and girl along with …

We have been back in Haiti for 1-1/2 weeks now. I cannot believe how much can happen in that short amount of time. We were at the mission for 2-1/2 days and then headed to BeauChamp on Monday. We stopped in Port-de-Paix for some supplies and then on to home.

Wow, the road to BeauChamp is really, really bad. I think it is a good thing that we forget some things rather quickly because I had definitely forgotten how bad the road had gotten especially after the hurricane. But it was worth the travel to get to our home sweet home.
We arrived home and everyone was so glad to see each other. It was so good to see our Haitian family. They were so gracious in looking after the house and our animals while we were gone. Poor Bandit has surely lived up to his name. He was pretty much in solitary confinement while we were gone. He had started running with some dogs and Odenis was afraid he would get killed so he kept him in his cage while we were gone.

Boy, were they ever …

This past November I was finally able to start the first, of what I hope to be many, seminar classes with the leaders in the Far West. I have told the preachers that they can come and invite one to two other men from their church. This will enable me to train more men at one time.

We got off to a rough start because no one showed up to our first class because of rain. Unlike America the rural areas almost shut down when it rains because travel is so difficult. The next week we began our study through the book of Philippians. Although we did not have as many leaders as I had hoped, I have pledged to teach whether we have two people or twenty-two.

We have a great time studying God’s Word together. With the study I have questions for them to answer as we work our way through each chapter. As we finish each chapter I then have sample sermon outlines or lessons outlines that we discuss. They then are able to take these and go back and teach or preach this same material in their …

Welcome to the new blog for Mike and Teresa Grant and our work here in Haiti.