Update from Cindy McMartin

As of today, Bruce and I are in the States.  We’re in Happy Valley, Oregon.  Our reason for being here is to help Joel and Andi.  Joel has one last linguistics course he is taking for his training with NTM and is in Oklahoma for 7 weeks.  Andi has a job teaching math at a high school in Vancouver and starts this week.  So, we’re using our vacation time and have come out to help take care of Ethan and Tyler in Joel’s absence.  We’re all living together with Andi’s sister’s family of 5, so it’s quite an experience….and never a dull moment!  :)

Update from Phyllis Schmid

Greetings,

I’m sitting on our patio enjoying the view.   I wish I could invite all of you to join me here for a tall glass of iced tea.  It is very HOT and HUMID but there is a breeze and I love sitting here.  Last weekend David worked with Amilus to top some of the overgrown trees giving us a view of the sea once again.  God protected the men as they worked and the result is breath taking.  I can see several royal palm trees and I was thinking about how they are still such a beautiful sight to me.   I came from small town western PA and have now lived in Haiti longer than I ever lived there.   I had never traveled far away from PA and Indiana when David was in seminary so coming to Haiti and all the tropical beauty just awed me and I still love it.

Please Pray

Classes are scheduled to start on Monday September 6th, with registration begining next week.

Please pray:

• For returning students, second, third and fourth year students as they pick up after a semester of no classes
• For new students as they begin their classes
• For professors as they prepare for their classes as well as to teach, mentor and care for the students
• For STEP leadership as they move the school forward and look for ways to make the temporary classrooms and office spaces work
• For the missionaries as they work with UEBH and STEP

Moving Donated Furniture

Update from Cindy McMartin

Greetings Everyone! August 14, 2010

When I saw Mme Lionel after the earthquake, I was shocked. She had lost so much weight and she didn’t look well. Ever since I’ve known her, even in the midst of difficult living circumstances, which has been the norm for her, there’s always been a smile and hope in her eyes. She was willing to work hard and do what was necessary to take care of her family. This time was different – it seemed like she had no energy left even to hope. 

Now we need your hands

If you are in the Lancaster area and available this Saturday (August 14th), we could use some help moving the items from the storage units into the trucks to take to the container. We will take the trucks to CAM International later in the week.

We will be meeting at 11 am at the offices of Coresource on Marshall Street as parking is limited at City Self Storage. Please be sure you park in the Coresource parking lot. It is at the back of the property that used to be the Lancaster Stockyards. The lot is to the side of the building. Spaces are marked "CS". We will walk over to City Self Storage together.

Here are the directions from Route 30, Lancaster:

1. Take the exit for Lititz Pike (PA-501) and US-222 S
2. Continue to follow US-222 S/Lititz Pike
3. Turn left at Marshall Ave
4. Coresource is on the right
5. City Self Storage will be on the left

Google Maps directions

Hand of God at work

Karen, my sister, called me Monday night just beside herself excited and I thought you might like to hear about how God has provided some wonderful blessings.

Karen's employer has moved locations from downtown to a new office complex. In the process of moving, the company decided to get rid of a lot of the furniture and an amazing amount of office supplies. When Karen asked about taking them, the company agreed.

So the seminary and Lemuel Ministries, a organization in NW Haiti (Anse Rouge) where Judy (Muchmore) Dilus (a CrossWorld MK) works with her husband will have desks, cubicles for offices and all kinds of office supplies like notebooks, basic office supplies, etc.

Then yesterday as Karen was finalizing the details of renting a truck to get the items and lining up help to dismantle some of the furniture before moving things to a storage unit, she was told that the company had already had their people dismantle things, and they would move things to a storage unit for her.

When Karen contacted the storage unit and explained that we needed the units for only two weeks, the owner donated the use of two units (because it won't all fit in one unit) because he wanted to help Haiti but did not know how.

Can you see why Karen was so excited!! What a blessing! Thank you Lord for blessing us all!