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Saturday, 13 February 2010 00:00

Friday was another "wall to wall" day for the team. The medical part of the team held a clinic here at the orphanage which was a great sucess. Bill and I went with Pastor Joel to get supplies for the purifiers. The beginning of the trip was very surreal as the roads were empty with none of the vendors out and very few people were milling about. Understand that at all hours of daylight P au P is like New York at rush hour. Just add in a magnitude of scooters and fill every square inch of sidewalk space with vendors selling food made on the spot. Virtually every one was in the prayer services and many of them spilled into the streets with worshipers. We headed there because we got word that the 3 wayward medical bags had made it.
Praise God!

In the middle of the day, Pastor Joaz, one of our translators, recieved a call from his wife saying that her sister had just died from an untreated injury from the earthquake. She was in P au P when the EQ hit and suffered som internal injuries. She was not aware of how severely she was injured and wanted to be with family in the mountains. Her bleeding became worse to the point of severe pain and they tried to get her from the villiage to the hospital on a motercycle. She died en route. Mathilde Belizaire was 44 and leaves a husband and 2 chilldren.

Yet God still shows Himself amazing.

As we were eating dinner, Paster Joel recieved a phone call saying that there was a medical emergency in the villiage. On of the local woman was in labor. Our nurses eyes lit up like it was Christmas morning. Four of them went to help this woman deliver a baby girl on the sidewalk in front of a group of 30+ cheering villiagers. The baby had a very difficult time  comming to and had it not been for the medical bags having made it only hours earlier with the proper medical supplies, the baby probably would not have made it. Unbelivable.

Her name is Zoe Christiana. meaning " new life in Christ". We all wonder what God has planned for this child to orchistrate so many circumstances to ensure Zoe's survival.

Getting to know the team:
Judy Bartle;

For 41 years Judy has been a pastors wife and proud mother of 2 children. She lives with her hubby in Rolla Mo. where she works in an orthopedic office as an RN. She has a deep love for the Haitian people which has carried her here 10 times. I asked her the thing that people would find most surprising about her, and she replied that she is an introvert. This IS surprising because when she is not knitting socks she is hugging children and regaling us with her beautiful voice. Judy taught us a Haitian saying; When you come to Haiti it will break you heart, when you leave, you will leave a peice of it behind.