Learning to Say "Dega Je"
The team going to Haiti include three members of the Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church -- Jane Carney, Susan Jones and Barb Kell. There are eight others on the team, including Susan's sister from Washington, DC.
Jane writes: "We are leaving early Friday AM and will return Saturday the 16th. We fly to Port au Prince, take a pre-arranged van trip accross the airport and take a smaller airline to Cap Haitian. Someone picks us up there from the mission and transports us to the Hotel.
"The name of the orphanage is Eternal Hope In Haiti. Their web page is found at www.ehih.org.
"While we are there: we will do at least 5 mobile clinics. Twilla, one of the team members, visits 5 sites on a regular basis - seeing the same patients every 90 days. We will spend time working with the children at the orphanage. We will help them with homework and are planning to do art projects with them. We will clean and organize at least three rooms at the orphanage and prepare the bathroom for the plumbing construction which we will supervise. We are hiring the plumber and paying for the expenses to get at least one bathroom functioning. Now we have found that there is an opportunity to get a shower working in another bathroom that is used by the administrator when the person who lives there is gone and there is a third bathroom that has not been used for years that could possibly be made operational again.
"We also plan to take lots of photographs and interview the children for publicity purposes and to introduce them to our own congregation. We plan to photograph both the current and the new orphanage that is under construction extensively so that our team going in December can better plan what to bring and spend their time on.
"We also plan to spend time buying art and crafts to bring back and try to merchandise as a fund raiser for the orphanage.
"I think that those of you that know Susan and me know that we need prayer to slow down and let God accomplish what He wants to accomplish in His own time frame. We do not need to do everything on this list in one week and run roughshod over the Haitians in the process. "Dega je," as the Haitians say "whatever!"
Jane writes: "We are leaving early Friday AM and will return Saturday the 16th. We fly to Port au Prince, take a pre-arranged van trip accross the airport and take a smaller airline to Cap Haitian. Someone picks us up there from the mission and transports us to the Hotel.
"The name of the orphanage is Eternal Hope In Haiti. Their web page is found at www.ehih.org.
"While we are there: we will do at least 5 mobile clinics. Twilla, one of the team members, visits 5 sites on a regular basis - seeing the same patients every 90 days. We will spend time working with the children at the orphanage. We will help them with homework and are planning to do art projects with them. We will clean and organize at least three rooms at the orphanage and prepare the bathroom for the plumbing construction which we will supervise. We are hiring the plumber and paying for the expenses to get at least one bathroom functioning. Now we have found that there is an opportunity to get a shower working in another bathroom that is used by the administrator when the person who lives there is gone and there is a third bathroom that has not been used for years that could possibly be made operational again.
"We also plan to take lots of photographs and interview the children for publicity purposes and to introduce them to our own congregation. We plan to photograph both the current and the new orphanage that is under construction extensively so that our team going in December can better plan what to bring and spend their time on.
"We also plan to spend time buying art and crafts to bring back and try to merchandise as a fund raiser for the orphanage.
"I think that those of you that know Susan and me know that we need prayer to slow down and let God accomplish what He wants to accomplish in His own time frame. We do not need to do everything on this list in one week and run roughshod over the Haitians in the process. "Dega je," as the Haitians say "whatever!"
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