God's Good Work!

We are continuing our work on various fix-up/construction projects around the existing property and we are beginning to start on the newly leased temporary orphanage.

Looks like I'll be mainly doing alot of shelving, some tile work, a large island type of cabinet for the staff to prepare the large meals on and maybe where they could also sit at and eat their(staff's) meals. It seems we're always busy with alot of things--there is so much that really needs attention. But I don't know if I can list them all.

Eric and James have been working quite a bit on redoing the severely scrambled up wiring in the medical clinic and the school office. They have got it all finished there, but are still going to go over the system in the classrooms also.

(The classrooms are packed  and the kids are so focused on their work. You can hear them going thru verbal practices in unison all of the time and it sounds almost joyful! I don't remember that kind of attitude too much in my school years!!  Notice that there is just some tack boards seperating the classrooms. They have a total student pop. of about 300 children. People can sponsor a child's tuition.)

They have also finished relocating the water tanks and the pump, it's wiring and the pvc piping. This needed to be totally reconfigured because of the future demo of the orphanage building.

They also built a breadfruit drying rack. This was done because they have started a program in conjunction with the 'Trees That Feed' ministry. They already are growing a large amount of breadfruit saplings on the roof here which they will distribute to people in need and even help teach them how to care and propagate them. 3 Angels is also planning to use the new property, they have just aquired, as a growing/farming area for these same reasons until any construction there could be funded....(hint, hint!)

*****By the way- I should make clear that any offerings made to the ministry here should be over and above your normal church tithing. 3 Angels nor I want this ministry to take from the needs of anyone's home churches.****

I have been doing alot of smaller things since finishing the kitchen relocation and I have even been blessed to be able to do a little ministering too.

 -I put in a door and door jamb for a bathroom which just had a curtain-for little better privacy.
-I helped in relocating a telephone pole to be able to have better clearance to the vehicles from the power lines in front of the property. -They were actually so low they could come in contact w/the vehicles coming and going here and  the guard would have to use a board or whatever to hold them out of the way!
-I worked on an exterior cabinet and tool shed (the hatians call a "depot").

Security here is important. We have a 24 hr guard. It was made clearer to us just lately when the guard caught someone trying to go over the front fence in the early morning hours. So I helped to get it much less climbable by cementing in the places that could be used for a step. It was an open decorative brick w/a ledge on it, but is now smoothed sloping concrete which has no footholds. We had some very poorly installed razor wire but now we are fabricating steel spikes out of pieces of rebar and welded to the tops to be much more of a deterrent.

I've been really blessed to be able to do some ministering here also. I was able to share what real faith was wth one of the haitian men that helps us here and was able to pray with him to open up his heart-not just his mind, to the Lord. A couple of days later he said he had people that he knew wanted to come and hear some bible teaching! Soooooo .....I was very available to give them that yesterday! We had about 30 people including some kids! So pray for them, we are going to do it again next Saturday. It really made my day to be able to minister to them. I hope and pray it made theirs!

 The Lord seems to be bringing opportunities for teaching too. We went to the church that the Headmaster of the school here attends. It was a very humble yet such a spiritual church! Some of their benches were made of a few twisted 2x4's.

Alex, (the headmaster) is helping to improve his little church. He has been, little by little, helping to change these benches out to a nicer smoother wood bench like you can see in front of them in the picture below. ---Alex has also even helped some of his own students at the school with their tuition!

This church had a tin roof with one light bulb. The concrete at the altar step all along the front was all broken--you can see the feet of one that came for prayer standing there before the podium.

They had to use a noisy generator in order to use a microphone, and of course no air conditioning and yet they were so full of the love of God  and praising him with their voices lifted with such a ringing devotion to God that it testified to all of us of the true riches that were really there, and that we "rich" Americans could do very well to seek more of for ourselves! They were so warm and loving I wish you all could have been there with us. As a visiting pastor they asked me to say a few words. All I said was that 'they were ministering to me with such a love for God".

Afterwards the sweet loving pastor came up to me and sincerely said how glad he was to meet me and maybe we could get together again personally. He also asked me to come and give a message to his flock next Sunday! I told him what an honor and blessing that would be for me. So pray for that time. Also please pray for the other times to share in the word. It is really a blessing to serve the Lord with my hands here and now also with some wonderful opportunities to minister the word.

BLESSINGS!!

Bob