This is a shout out to any adults that would like to come to "My Fathers House" for a week, to help with different things around this home. We would also go out into the community and visit, and even have a fun day or two. The cost to you is $450.00 for the week plus your airfare. You will get to experience real Jamaican food, see their culture, see another country that God so beautifully made. Oh and hang with Markie, Jenni and I. :-) We so would love to get a group of you to come. Many hands make light work. We are wanting to paint the kitchen, make a couple cupboards, etc. We were hoping to have a group like in January when its snow in Bellingham, but we could take you sooner as well. What do you think? Make a comment on this blog if you are interested please, so I can start planning for you. Thank you for considering.
God's Blessings
Friday, July 30, 2010
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
The team has left
The hardest part of having a team here, is saying goodbye... :-( Even with 50 of them, darn good friendships have been made. I want to tell you about a few things this team did and how God worked thru them. While they were here, they did VBS in Petersville and in Gully Bank (remember Gully Bank is new to My Fathers House, they are in desperate need of everything including Christ)They finished construction on a new outhouse for the church in Petersville. They painted two houses, one of which the old lady had been praying about for four years, she also got a new front door. You could just feel her gratefulness pouring out. They hauled water to peoples homes that otherwise would of walked a very long way. There is also a church about 45 minutes away, that Jim and Penie helped build and the Pastor of this church Pastor Shaw has found out he has cancer and is in the hospital. He was so worried about finding someone to do the church service for Sunday, when this team from Michigan said they would take care of it. So we took Pastor Murray from Petersvile South Shore. Pastor Shaw's entire family was at the service, and the offering netted 450.00 US dollars. That money will so help this family and all the hospital bills. So can you see how wonderful friendships are made?
So today they left, we did chores, the kids did so so well, we took them for chicken down the street. All in all it was very very quiet around here, something we have not yet experienced since we have been here. Jim and Penie are leaving for a few days come Thursday, for some R&R... This will give Mark and I a dry run and managing this orphanage. Prayers needed!!!!!!!!
So today they left, we did chores, the kids did so so well, we took them for chicken down the street. All in all it was very very quiet around here, something we have not yet experienced since we have been here. Jim and Penie are leaving for a few days come Thursday, for some R&R... This will give Mark and I a dry run and managing this orphanage. Prayers needed!!!!!!!!
Monday, July 26, 2010
Michigan team leaves tomorrow
Tonight will be our last night to worship with this great team, last night they went to the beach to worship and tonight will be on our roof. Today part of there team just cleaned My Fathers House, and I mean cleaned it. One of the kids from their team named Joshua was playing catch on the beach today and fell on a bed of sea urchins.... OUCH!!
When that happens these little black things break off and go deep in your skin, and to get them to surface enough to pull them out with tweezers you have to use human pee, but it can't be your own pee. So many of the team members were going potty in a cup so they could pour it on his back. Poor kid. He said everytime they put some on his back he could feel them moving to the surface. And it hurts. Well there are about seven left in his back, that they can't get out, so he will go to the hospital as soon as he gets home. There, they will make him not feel anything to be able to get them out. One thing is for certain, we sure were able to see who wasn't drinking enough water. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL... Jenni Markie and I went to town today to get passport pictures takin, we are trying to get work permits, man the picture is worse then Costco pictures. LOL
OH!!!!!! I almost forgot to tell you. Marks size 36 pants are falling off, and I lost ten lbs. In two weeks!!!!! Can't beat that..... I swear we sweat it all off, well it could be no fast food, um maybe no icecream, um maybe starbucks, what ever it is we are happy. I just hope we will be able to find shorts when we come home at Christmas.
We are going to start a wishlist for My Fathers House, if anyone feels like donating.
1. Commercial size pancake dropper
2. Commercial spatula to flip those pancakes.
3. Alphabet to go around the school room
4. Signs for long and short vowels
5. Cream of tarter you can't get it here
6. Chili powder you can't get it here
we will keep adding to this list as we go along. We hope you are all enjoying reading our blog. Post some comments please and sign up to follow us, that way we know who is liking this. Thanks everyone. Today Dontay was supposed to get his operation, Miss Sandy and I prayed for him today, praying he wouldn't be scared and that the Dr.s will do a great job. Please take a moment and say a prayer for him.
When that happens these little black things break off and go deep in your skin, and to get them to surface enough to pull them out with tweezers you have to use human pee, but it can't be your own pee. So many of the team members were going potty in a cup so they could pour it on his back. Poor kid. He said everytime they put some on his back he could feel them moving to the surface. And it hurts. Well there are about seven left in his back, that they can't get out, so he will go to the hospital as soon as he gets home. There, they will make him not feel anything to be able to get them out. One thing is for certain, we sure were able to see who wasn't drinking enough water. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL... Jenni Markie and I went to town today to get passport pictures takin, we are trying to get work permits, man the picture is worse then Costco pictures. LOL
OH!!!!!! I almost forgot to tell you. Marks size 36 pants are falling off, and I lost ten lbs. In two weeks!!!!! Can't beat that..... I swear we sweat it all off, well it could be no fast food, um maybe no icecream, um maybe starbucks, what ever it is we are happy. I just hope we will be able to find shorts when we come home at Christmas.
We are going to start a wishlist for My Fathers House, if anyone feels like donating.
1. Commercial size pancake dropper
2. Commercial spatula to flip those pancakes.
3. Alphabet to go around the school room
4. Signs for long and short vowels
5. Cream of tarter you can't get it here
6. Chili powder you can't get it here
we will keep adding to this list as we go along. We hope you are all enjoying reading our blog. Post some comments please and sign up to follow us, that way we know who is liking this. Thanks everyone. Today Dontay was supposed to get his operation, Miss Sandy and I prayed for him today, praying he wouldn't be scared and that the Dr.s will do a great job. Please take a moment and say a prayer for him.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Visits
Sorry that I haven't updated for a few days, but I have been so busy, which means so tired. :-) Markie has been sick, but is getting better and better by the day. I think every once in awhile God has to tell Mark that he need a rest, and being sick is the only way to get Mark down. So thank you for all the prayers, he is feeling them.
So yesterday I took half the team to an infirmary (nursing home) We started off in the womans building. The people there are either incapable of taking care of themselves or have mental issues. There is this one lady named Joyce, she is a bigger woman, I am not sure what is the matter with her, but she can't walk. When I visited with her, we immediately became friends, I asked her how she was feeling and she told me her tummy hurt, I then noticed she had went potty in her bed. To make a long story short, I talked to the head nurse which her name is Miss Penie Cook, (kinda crazy huh???? any how she said that Joyce has nothing wrong with her brain and knows she is to call for a nurse when she needs a bed pan, but Joyce chooses not to and does number one and two in her bed. She is not a nice patient with the way she treats the nurses. So I felt that with the friendship that Joyce and I have made that I would talk to her about it. She promised me that she would call the nurse before she went in her bed so that she would not have to lay in it. So today I took the other half of the team, the first thing I did was go right to Joyce, and she didn't call the nurse, she said she forgot. So I think this is going to take some time, but if I can help make a difference in her life then thats what I am going to do. The men's building is not so nice. They are in one big room and its just kinda gross, but a couple of the men still have great spirits. Jeremiah for example has been in that place for ten years. He broke is leg and arm at work, which never got fixed so he is there for the rest of his life. He would pull up his pant leg so you could see the 5 inch gap where there should be a bone but isn't. But even with these challenges he takes good care of himself with dressing nice and taking care of his area. Me and him hit it off, so I shook his hand and called him Mr. Handsome. Then it was off to the hospital, we got to see the new born babies and their moms, we then went to pediatric and there was the little baby with the cleft pallet and lobster syndrome and Penie was talking about. I have never seen that syndrome before, but I guess his mom drank the entire pregnancy. But I could make him smile, and his eyes just melt you heart. So today when I took the other half of the team, I got to spend a good half hour holding him. His name is Dontay and he is precious, his mom left him at the hospital and said she didn't want him because of what he looked like. Well I so badly want him here at My Fathers House, so I found out who to contact and left all of our information with the hospital, but it does sound promising. So Sunday Dontay is going to Montego Bay to get the operation on his cleft pallet, Please pray for him, he is going to be all alone and is only four months old.
So now its7:30 here and I think I need to stay right here in bed for the night, everything has caught up with me and I need some sleep.
So yesterday I took half the team to an infirmary (nursing home) We started off in the womans building. The people there are either incapable of taking care of themselves or have mental issues. There is this one lady named Joyce, she is a bigger woman, I am not sure what is the matter with her, but she can't walk. When I visited with her, we immediately became friends, I asked her how she was feeling and she told me her tummy hurt, I then noticed she had went potty in her bed. To make a long story short, I talked to the head nurse which her name is Miss Penie Cook, (kinda crazy huh???? any how she said that Joyce has nothing wrong with her brain and knows she is to call for a nurse when she needs a bed pan, but Joyce chooses not to and does number one and two in her bed. She is not a nice patient with the way she treats the nurses. So I felt that with the friendship that Joyce and I have made that I would talk to her about it. She promised me that she would call the nurse before she went in her bed so that she would not have to lay in it. So today I took the other half of the team, the first thing I did was go right to Joyce, and she didn't call the nurse, she said she forgot. So I think this is going to take some time, but if I can help make a difference in her life then thats what I am going to do. The men's building is not so nice. They are in one big room and its just kinda gross, but a couple of the men still have great spirits. Jeremiah for example has been in that place for ten years. He broke is leg and arm at work, which never got fixed so he is there for the rest of his life. He would pull up his pant leg so you could see the 5 inch gap where there should be a bone but isn't. But even with these challenges he takes good care of himself with dressing nice and taking care of his area. Me and him hit it off, so I shook his hand and called him Mr. Handsome. Then it was off to the hospital, we got to see the new born babies and their moms, we then went to pediatric and there was the little baby with the cleft pallet and lobster syndrome and Penie was talking about. I have never seen that syndrome before, but I guess his mom drank the entire pregnancy. But I could make him smile, and his eyes just melt you heart. So today when I took the other half of the team, I got to spend a good half hour holding him. His name is Dontay and he is precious, his mom left him at the hospital and said she didn't want him because of what he looked like. Well I so badly want him here at My Fathers House, so I found out who to contact and left all of our information with the hospital, but it does sound promising. So Sunday Dontay is going to Montego Bay to get the operation on his cleft pallet, Please pray for him, he is going to be all alone and is only four months old.
So now its7:30 here and I think I need to stay right here in bed for the night, everything has caught up with me and I need some sleep.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
My Brother was one smart guy.
Today as I was driving up and down the mountain, I was thanking my brother Billy, who taught me to drive just about everything there is to drive. Because he did that, I am driving the van on the wrong side and the wrong side of the road, and I ROCK! LOL This team that is here is a lot of fun, they have great songs for the kids, great crafts and games. Man with a team this big, so darn much can get done for these people. One more day of VBS, so I will write more when I can.
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