March 28, 2012

The team from Central Manor hit the ground running.  After church at Borel on Sunday, we headed to Saut d’Eau to enjoy the fantastic waterfall.  This team is a bundle of energy with all but two still being in high school.  Monday they went through several gallons of paint sprucing up the dorm, visited the homes for Haiti and had prayer with Angelina, a young lady with extreme handicaps, whose family will receive one of the homes presently being built.  Tuesday was a special day for the group because they traveled to Club Indigo to meet their Compassion child whom their youth group has supported for six years.  It was difficult to know to know who was most excited and blessed.  They enjoyed playing games and swimming together and topped off the day with a buffet. 

We hated to leave this team, but we could hear our new granddaughter, Capri, calling us home to Missouri.  So we headed home for the summer with a brief trip back to Borel in June with a work team led by our son Brandon.  We will be back in Haiti in September.  We hope to get a chance to visit your church while we are in the United States and we look forward to seeing familiar and new faces on teams in 2012-2013.  Contact us at bkmcintyre@hotmail.com or 573.756.7882 or 573.631.8126.

March 21, 2012

The team arrived from the Caring Community Church in Pennsylvania.  The members ranged in age from 18 to about 80 with a grandpa bringing his grandson, husbands and wives being missional together, and energetic singles.  They were busy during the week.  They painted two of the Homes for Haiti, repaired vehicles and generators, made and installed screens and trimmed the ceiling in the apartment by our house.  They worked with Andy for two or three days trying to unclog the drains for the showers and toilets in the second floor of the discipleship center.  That was probably the nastiest job on the compound, certainly not something you would spend your vacation doing, but they did it with no complaint even though their arms and clothes were black with muck.  The award for “The Worst Job with the Best Attitude” goes out to Andy and the team.

After they washed up, they did have time to bless the prisoners at the Arcahaie prison with their testimonies and singing, visit the tilapia tanks at the YWAM compound, distribute water to field workers, and share supplies with area schools.  The Caring Community church is a young (20 years old) vibrant church that has sent out a large number of members into full-time Christian service.  We were thankful for the willingness that we saw in this group to serve sacrificially.

Romans 12: 1-2          And so, dear Christian friends, I plead with you to give your bodies to God.  Let them be a living sacrifice – the kind he will accept.  When you think of what he has done for you, is this too much to ask?  Don’t copy the behavior and customs of the world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.  Then you will know what God wants you to do, and you will know how good and pleasing and perfect his will really is.