Last Sonday was our staff food, fun, fellowship night. We do this on the last Sonday of the month. Yes we do a lot of eating :-) Rice! My favourite - not. It is good to come together to sing praises and worship together to build community. It is the prayer of the Personnel Committee that no staffer may feel left behind. About 40 - 50 people attend these monthly fellowship opportunities and the free food is certainly a getter. Our devotional focussed on running the race, giben by Beth McHoul who has run many a marathon race, including the Boston Marathon. She and her husband have been in Haiti since 1989.

Enjoying the fellowship Sonday are Cari Viximar and her husband Junior with Heather de Pooter, pictured from left to right. Both Kari and Heather are Canucks, and Partner Missionairies. Each week, the three of them with Mary and myself meet at Leanne and Casper Geisterfer's house for food and fellowship - games night or discussion night. It is important not to feel isolated, lonely in Haiti. The same is true everywhere. Hospitality is a main
ingredient of the Christian walk.

Last Sonday we had special music at church with the church choir led by Heather de Pooter. Heather is also a Partner missionary teaching grade two at Quisqueya Christian School. This is her second year at QCS. She is also Canadian, eh, coming from Sarnia. It was an interesting Sonday, because there were at least seven Canadians introduced in church last Sonday, visitors who had come to Haiti to serve a week or two at a specific organization. Some of them knew people we knew :-) It is a small world after all.

The rains have come. Friday night it rained and rained, flooding the school soccer field. I was to have supper at a teacher's house within walking distance of the school, but had to wait for a ride. The water 'hit' the bottom of the car as we drove through several deep water holes. The rains certainly help the dust control and fill the school water cisterns. God is good, knowing what we need.