Janis and Glenda Bossenbroek, her friend from California, arrived on January 7th. It did not take long to make a trip to Gonaives to do a medical clinic. On the way to Gonaives we stopped at a small compound about twenty minutes outside of Gonaives. Here we distributed the clothes that were given to us by the generous ladies at Bibles for Missions in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. These children had not much more than rags to cover themselves and were extremely excited to get some new clothes!

Pictured here is Janis with a couple of the children that received the new clothes. They loved to have us visit since they remembered us from the first visit last fall after the hurricane waters left their compound. These children spent many hours on the tin roofs of their houses while their parents hung on to the sides as the water climbed up to the roof. They lost everything that they posessed including their horses and cattle. The Lord sent them goats several days after the floods evaded. They said 'The Lord is good'.

Here Janis and Kez, the registered nurse who came with us, are talking together as the children are eating their what may be their only meal of the day. Pastor Juanito Genada feeds over 140 children a day at this feeding centre. After the children ate, we checked all the children for skin infections or fungus infections on their heads, as well as talking to many of the children's moms to treat children that had worms, fevers and other illnesses.

Here Janis is standing in the yard of Pastor Genada's church. Behind her you can see that the mud is still about four and a half feet high in the next lot. Much of the city is still under mud from last fall's flooding after the storms and the hurricanes. There are still many months of digging to get rid of all the mud. Please pray for the people that have been hired to do the work of digging Gonaives out of the mud. Many of the side streets are piled 6-7 feet high with the mud that came out of the houses. When the rains come, there is no where for the water to go except into the houses, the lowest point. For many, it is an ongoing battle.