Trust you all are doing ok there. We have been trying to make plans for the IMO Convention in Branson.
We have a medical team of 18 in this week, and they must have seen over 500 here at Delmas yesterday. They worked to about 8 p.m., last night. They are at Robin today, then on to Blanchard I (One) tomorrow, and to Boutin on Thursday, and Friday to Penigot.
I have been working on getting containers out of customs as we have 7 in there now and they should start coming out tomorrow. I have a little excavator on there and a lot of good stuff that we need bad now.
I got the land at Terre Rouge dozed out and it looks great. I am starting the wall on the new property, the group from Gateway church in Southland, TX, did a great job the week they were here. All the walls inside those buildings came down and we have to clean them all out. The outsides did pretty good out there. We have to rebuild the Lefevre church and then we will start on the Terre Rouge church. The old one took a hit so we are going to do the other one rather than fix the old. We have the one down south at Mare Dumez to put up, which was destroyed. We also have to do Duration church. We have already done a lot of repairs, but have a lot more to do. I have 3 construction crews going now. I have a lot of groups wanting to come to work, most of them are churches we never have heard of, but heard of us. We have plenty to keep them busy, and about any trade at all.
Stu was down about 2 weeks ago with the builders from his church, one of them is planning to build pattern prefab houses that we can assemble here. We will probably start doing that at the new property. We have plenty of room out there; it is a nice piece of ground. Stu is coming back in, and bringing some other pastors to help him the last week of April to do our pastor’s seminar. This thing is growing like everything. We have had a lot of people being saved in the churches. Delmas is running over and out into the street. (Delmas church is on the compound.)
God is opening a lot of doors. We thank him for it.
Looking forward to seeing you all around the last of May. We sure love all you guys.
God bless.
John Hanson
Pastor John,
My daughter just spent this past week with all of you in Haiti with the medical team. I have to say through her text messages that she sent home she enjoyed every moment of this trip. I feel God calling her to do more work in the Mission field. I want to thank of you for keeping great care of my daughter. But, more than that I got to give God praise for all of this he blessed Abby and in return she was able to give and bless others. I can’t wait to hear about all of her adventures and all the great things that happen during her trip. I honesty feel you will see her again. In many of the text messages she said she wasn’t ready to leave. I know when she arrives home that I will have a daughter with new eyes and a new outlook on life itself. Even though none of Abby’s family was with her in person we were with all of you through our prayers and this will contiune on. Our hearts have become more open to what IMO has done and continues to do. I know for certain our family is just begining to do more for Haiti.
May God Bless you Greatly each day
Lori Hammond