18:00 central time
I just talked to Larry. First let me say how nice it is for Larry to have the phone purchased with donations to Servants Gift, thank you.

Larry is in good spirits, went to a warehouse to buy rice and sugar. He is able to buy wholesale using a distributor that supplies a restaurant that Larry has some how been connected with. He was unsure of the weight of the bag but thought it was 25 kg and if it was then the rice cost just under $1000 per ton. They also bought some sugar but he did not know the exact weight.

Its mango season and he said the breakfast where he is staying has fresh mango and excellent coffee so he said breakfast is good. Supper is rice and beans. He had some grilled corn on the cob off the street today.

Tomorrow they go to visit homes in a town that is about an hour east.

He wanted to buy some dirt cookies today but his local connection there would not take him, the said its not even safe for the locals to go there due to the kidnappings.

he is staying in a walled complex that is primarily used by people (at least currently) that are in the process of adopting from the local orphanages so he is staying with westerners. One bathroom per floor, no ac, breakfast and supper for $35 per day... oh yea the sign reads " bedding changed every 5 to 7 days". He called me from the roof.... once again the international cell phone is loud and clear.... amazing.

I told him to email so we can stay up on his trip and he promised he would try to write tomorrow - there is one computer in the facility.

Larry also told me that Carl has the whole mango preservation thing figured out.

I would post this on servants gift face book but I have no clew how so if anyone wants to post this that would be awesome.

Thank you
and good night
Tim

The visit
Suzette and I went to visit an orphanage today. We started by going to a clinic where we met Gladys Sylvestre-Thomas. An amazing woman! She has www.usfch.org After meeting with her for some time and learning some about her vast experience in helping the children of Haiti she offered to take us to "the village" as she calls it. Her daughter came along with us. We visited the Rainbow of love nursery and that name says it all. We then visited the Hope institute for disabled children. Friend this place is great but these poor children are in terrible shape. Most in wheel chairs of confined to bed. I was sweating terribly and that may have hid some of the tears in my eyes as I tried to love each one. But there are just to many. At least 20 or more. I will tell you that I made some smile and some couldn't. I prayed for each one and will someday see them perfect in the kingdom. I was ready to spend the entire day with these children. The Infants are beyond fun. They all receive a great deal of love and are very well taken care of. They sleep in rooms that have a house mom in each one and all looked very good. Gladys tells stories of many being dropped off at the clinic. Most of the mentally disabled where just left there. The parents had no other choice. She tells some success stories and some great tragedies. She trusts God and is a wonderful servant. Please lift her and her organization up in prayer. As the Lord would have it this was not on my agenda but He has some good stuff for me on this trip. You see there was a girl that came from Canada to stay with Suzette she had been adopted out of the orphanage that Gladys ran 18 years ago. She went to find her family and that is how Suzette and Gladys got in touch. There is even a large photo on the wall of the clinic with Gladys and a child on her lap and several others around her and the one on her lap is the girl who came home to find her family. She found them. What was left and got 2 of her siblings into the orphanage for the older kids to give them a better chance. Suzette said it was a very tear-filled time. Anyway as God was working this out long before I knew I would make this trip…. This girl's family is close here in Delmas. So I was asking about flip flops to purchase here. As you know we are giving out deworming medication and some of the parasites get into the bottoms of the feet. Well guess what??? This girl's family makes flip flops!!! We will be talking with them tomorrow afternoon and see how many I can purchase to hand out… Shoe trip all of a sudden!!! Tomorrow I meet John with Planting peace for a short visit. Then go and get supplies for Saturday. I have been asked to go to a place called Cabaret. It was terribly devastated from the flooding and most people there lost everything. WE have a list of items and will be using your donations to get as much as possible. We will also be giving out the deworming medication there as well as Ganthier on Saturday and Sunday. And then sometime we will visit the kids at the Delmos orphanage and get them the medication as well. Not sure when right now. Please continue to pray for me and all my friends here in Haiti. God is amazing and his love is greater than we can imagine. Hold fast to Jesus and we will all be together in a perfect place someday. I will be the guy with all the kids on his lap!!!
Blessings
Larry

try to send out a photo.. got my lap top along this is to good...
Blessings
Larry

Here are a couple of photos from the HIV home that Planting Peace has. cannt you tell how sad these kids are??? NOT...
Blessings
Larry

Saturday.
Visit Cabaret.
I don't even know where to begin. I don't have the skill to express my felling in writing as some of my gifted friends do. We got more supplies today and headed for Cabaret. This is one of the very hard hit areas from the hurricanes. We took as much as the van would hold and still have a place to sit. I don't know if I was more perplexed from going to a Mega mart (like a small sams club) then to a place like Cabaret or the drive there. We drive through piles of burning trash and people going through it before something they can use is gone in the fire. We then finally after a while get to Cabaret. No exaggeration here. Some of this place is leveled and much is still wet. Huge piles of Mud everywhere markers where people died, homes destroyed, and the smell of death still in the air. It is terrible. We meet with a man who has set up to help us with some of the neediest there. (wow I don't want that job)We separate all the goods into bags and the people gather. A bunch!! We give out some of the deworming medication that we brought and then hand out supplies. Many are very thankful. They thank me I tell them thank Jesus and a chorus of Merci Jesus goes up over and over again. What a blessing. We then go down into the villages deeper and see the devastation. It is terrible. People living wherever they can. Under any shelter possible. We here stories. When the water came if you didn't take what you had and run it was lost including live stoke dog's chickens, any household items, all gone. At a couple of stops we attract some attention. Me being white and all. And people gather. We use this opportunity to share the medication with them and tell them that Christ is with them and trust in him will get them through anything. We are on our way home and when we arrive in Port au Prince it is after dark. I never get tired of this after dark is even more amazing than daylight sometimes. But I tell you this to tell you about a church we pass. HUGE stereo speakers are out in the street many people around VERY loud praise music blazing out in the street all the people are dancing lifting their hands to the Lord and singing. It was amazing and I am sure that heaven couldn't miss them!!!! Ganthier for Sunday church!!! God be with you all.
Love Larry

Sunday
We head out early and it is back to the Mega mart (that is really the name) and get more supplies. Similar to the other day but more food. Also got a huge bag of flip flops to give out. Made right here in Haiti. We got them for $2.50 a pr American. No need to bring them they are already here!! The van is loaded and off to Ganthier. Have I mentioned how great the van is NOT! I wonder several times what we would do if this thing breaks down in the middle of nowhere..Arriving at Dada house I am greeted by 7 screaming kids and Brother Larry echoes threw the house. Around this part that is who I am. I go to one knee and soak in the hugs my arms around almost all of them. So the supplies are sorted out and we head to church. Did I mention the van? We try to cross the first stream, there are two on the way to the church, and yes in the middle we are stuck! So now what? Well we all get out of the van trying to stay dry. For me it's too late I am sweating like I just got out of the shower. Picture this, I am some others are asked to go ahead to the church, so me with my backpack and laptop under one arm and a kid trying to hold each hand I am walking alone this rock trail crossing another steam and past places where there are people who have never seen a light bulb in their house (hut). Yes God has a great sense of humor! Anyway we all finally get to church the van gets out and all the supplies are hand carried to the church as well. I show the video I made from the last time I was here and the people are very excited when someone's photo shows up that they know. We give out deworming medication and do some education on that. We will make Dada house a place for the rest of the town to come and get it. All must walk back to the van that is on the right side of the first stream. We then go back to Dada's where I get to play with the children. I forgot to tell you Marie is on the street when we are leaving for church and I speak with her she is amazing and happy that I remember her name. She smiles as I hug her and tell her that Jesus loves her very much. I hold her and she is crying with delight. I ask her to come to the church but she does not. For those who have not seen the video she has a deformed face and very large jaw and is made fun of by many. So the kids at Dada's want to sing me a song. We all sit on the step close and Dada leads them in This little light of mine In English. If I cry they will think I don't like it so I hold back and enjoy the gift that God is giving me. Too soon we have to go. Marie is there again and suzette gives her a new pair of flip flops she is beside herself. I don't think she has ever had anything new. I give her another kiss and hug before we go and in her way she tells me thank you. I thank the Lord for letting me meet her and tell her He loves her. There is so much I am leaving out… Sorry have to keep some for me. I get back to the Guest house and it is still light. So I call Maries orphanage across the street. I need to see a little girl there named Kimmi!! Some might remember the photo of her and I. I have photos for her from her mom and dad who are in New York. No answer. Shoot! I return to my room and ask the Father what to do. Get you things and go. Ok and that is what I do. The guard at Walls is not sure what to make of me as I walk out the door onto the street alone. I say be back soon. Walk to the gate at Maries and ask the man there to see her. Ok he says come in and wait here. Marie comes and we talk she sends someone for Kimmi and soon there she is. Looking as good as ever. Little Kimmi….!!!! She is shy at first and I am patient soon all that is gone and it's the Kimmi I meet before in my lap off my lap on the table looking at her photos of her mom and dad showing them to me… How much fun is this? On my way out there are a bunch out playing and they all run over to give hugs. I even get to see Peterson who will soon go home to Texas. It is all over to soon but what a great gift from God today was. Your great donations made this possible and I feel as though I have taken something from you. Doing this work is not suppose to be this much fun? Right? But it is!!! You threw Jesus have touch more than 200 families and we have handed out 400+ deworming pills. And will continue this effort. Also John will be getting our friend Multi vitamins and a mega dose of Vitamin A. People with poor nutrition can take a large dose like that. Thanks so much for serving a great God and helping these great people.
I can feel your prayers

John

As I sit and think of my new friend John, I place him in a high category with the Lord. John doesn't walk the front lines of this battle we are in, he runs. He runs forward ahead of most of us. He has put himself there. He had choices and has chosen his home country of Haiti to share the peace and love of Jesus with to share with the wonderful children there.

If John was called on by God to fight I see him as Mel Gibson was in Braveheart. All painted up, sword held high, a battle cry on his lips and running headlong into the enemy, with all he has entrusting in the Lord to deliver him. If you meet John you won't see any of this. He is a very gentile and a kind man filled with love and hope for his people. He is thin with a great smile. If Jesus was Haitian, John would be his image. We all have pictures of Christ on our walls looking in perfect health and perfectly proportioned but in truth he was not. I would imagine that in his last days he was very thin and terribly beaten and ragged. Although John is not beaten or raged, he is thin. Thin from the fight that he confronts every day.

He shared a story with me in the HIV home about a boy named Ritchy. This child went to the Lord earlier this year. Richie spent 40 days in the hospital before his passing. John was at his side every day. This is his fight. For Gods little ones in Haiti. John picks up his sword (Prayer) every morning and heads to the front lines. We need to do the same. Intervene for John and his work now, wherever you are. Give him strength and wisdom to carry on another day.

New photos on share site. From Haiti. Im the white guy!!!
http://missionganthierhaiti2008.shutterfly.com
God loves you all
Larry