To all you who know me you know I have to have the last word! This is no exception! It is 11:30 PM and we had a big family time tonight and the five of us were seated in a row and each of the family members: 14 kids, Mommy Cecile, Karen and Luckner all wrote us cards and expressed their appreciation for all we had done and told us how much they loved us. It was an emotional time for everyone and a few tears shed.
P. Jim and Cabano, Ricardo, Fritz and Luckner are at Luckners house and they are going to sleep on the roof...if they ever stop calling us for things they lost or misplaced. I lost my clipons and Dickie just had to go to the school (Karen would not let him go without security) and there they were on the cement ledge where I put them this morning.
Mommy Cecile and the bigger kids are out cleaning the truck for travel tomorrow. There will not be much sleep tonight. We have to have our time on the roof yet and the clock is set for 4:15AM.
We will feel the cold tomorrow and I can hardly wait!
Sandra
Monday, March 17, 2008
Our Last Day
Hi Folks….
This will be our last blog from Haiti… Tomorrow morning at 5a.m. we will be on the road to Port –au- Prince. It has been a hard evening, because we know we will not be seeing these dear people again before we leave and for security reasons we have not been able to say goodbye. We have tried to act a normal as possible all day, which has been difficult. We started off this morning with a wonderful worship time together and when we sang “Bind us together Lord” It was hard to keep the tears from flowing. After a good breakfast of Haitian style porridge, we went over to the School. The report cards were being handed out. What a daunting thing that was. Luckner gave them a long pep talk on the importance of not only their marks but their attitudes as well. All the parents came with the children, and each teacher got up in turn from the youngest grade to the highest. The cards were given out one by one with comments from the teacher or the principal (Luckner) The last place student’s name was called first and so on up to the two highest in the class. The top two of each class received a gift for their work There were some very upset parents and some very sad children. Another HOT HOT day with the thermometer unable to tell us exactly how hot it was because it could not register above 50 Celsius. Pastor Jim is camping out on the roof under the stars tonight with three of the teenagers over at Luckner’s home. We are all sad at the thought of leaving our new friends and brothers and sisters in Christ. We thank you all for praying for us and hope that you will pray especially hard for us in the morning as we travel.. May God continue to bless you all.Gail for all.
This will be our last blog from Haiti… Tomorrow morning at 5a.m. we will be on the road to Port –au- Prince. It has been a hard evening, because we know we will not be seeing these dear people again before we leave and for security reasons we have not been able to say goodbye. We have tried to act a normal as possible all day, which has been difficult. We started off this morning with a wonderful worship time together and when we sang “Bind us together Lord” It was hard to keep the tears from flowing. After a good breakfast of Haitian style porridge, we went over to the School. The report cards were being handed out. What a daunting thing that was. Luckner gave them a long pep talk on the importance of not only their marks but their attitudes as well. All the parents came with the children, and each teacher got up in turn from the youngest grade to the highest. The cards were given out one by one with comments from the teacher or the principal (Luckner) The last place student’s name was called first and so on up to the two highest in the class. The top two of each class received a gift for their work There were some very upset parents and some very sad children. Another HOT HOT day with the thermometer unable to tell us exactly how hot it was because it could not register above 50 Celsius. Pastor Jim is camping out on the roof under the stars tonight with three of the teenagers over at Luckner’s home. We are all sad at the thought of leaving our new friends and brothers and sisters in Christ. We thank you all for praying for us and hope that you will pray especially hard for us in the morning as we travel.. May God continue to bless you all.Gail for all.
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