Dear Friends, Thank you so much for all your thoughts and prayers while this last team was in Haiti.  Hurricane Tomas passed slightly west of the island to which we were all thankful, although we did experience howling winds and torrential downpour with lightning and thunder.  I have never heard it rain like that in my life!  At midnight Pastor Louinet […]

The team returned late Wednesday night.  We are all fine and catching up.  The trip was not what we had expected as we were not able to go into the mountains of Kawo due to hurricane Tomas.  But we worked in Nan wo  instead, visiting families of the school, passing out antibacterial soap, water filters, […]

“Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who completes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get […]

Just spoke with Louinet and he is in Tu Machand – halfway to Kawo.  He is going up the mountain to make arrangements for the team coming.  Two adults have died in Kawo.  All schools in that area are being canceled this week because of the Cholera.  Please, please be praying for them. Thanks. Dixie

September 1, 2010 Dear Friends, “I want you to know how much I am struggling for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me personally.  My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete […]

I hope you’re summer has been a little less hectic than mine.  I have been busy with my own kids this summer as they come home from college to visit, to work, to move back in again and to marry.  My daughter Grace was married on July 17th and will return as Dean of Women […]

Greetings friends, We’ve decided to continue with the monthly newsletters as I feel out of touch with many of you.  Blogging just doesn’t take the place of the updates each month, plus how many of you have checked the HOPE in Haiti blog?   So you will have to put up with me once again on a monthly basis. We […]

  Friends,   Welcome back to the team that went to Kawo and Nan wo in Haiti for nine days in April.  It was a wild trip climbing the mountains of Haiti, staying a few days and then coming back down to be in Nan wo for a couple more days.  They found that some of the school […]