DENILSON JEAN JULES 01/09/05 - 02/07/09

Denilson was a happy & bright young boy attending the MTM Gramothe school since the fall of 2000 when he entered the Preschool. His parents are farmers & he lived in the village of Gramothe with his brother & 2 sisters. Denilson loved to play soccer & in a recent writing assignment for school he said, "I am happy that we are able to go to school because I learn more about Jesus".

Denilson will be greatly missed by family, friends & classmates.

ACCIDENT UPDATE

Willem has just called as he is traveling to the hospital near Port au Prince.
Richardson Exile, one of our high school students, was driving a small pickup truck filled with supplies & people down the mountain from the village of Gramothe. The truck lost its brakes & it appears that he lost control of the truck causing it to go over the edge of the road. A small boy was killed immediately & now Richardson's father has died on the way to the hospital.
Again, we will report more as we know it.
Thank you in advance for your prayers.
Some of you know the story of the Exile family. The mother has stayed in her voodoo practice, yet has happily supported the work of MTM in the village of Gramothe by sending her 2 boys to the school since its opening in 1999. Through the MTM Gramothe church, both boys, the father & their grandmother have come to know the Lord as their personal Savior. Please pray for the mother to now accept Christ as her Savior.

CAR ACCIDENT ON THE ROAD TO GRAMOTHE

Dear Friends,

As I type, Willem is on his way to the hospital with a truck load of people that are injured. It appears that a small truck loaded with supplies & people on it's way to Gramothe somehow fell off of the road. The pictures below are all we can see from the house & there have been a couple frantic phone calls about injured & at least one death of a child. We are not sure of the details at this time, but will update you more as we know.

WELL PHOTOS!!!

Willem had the honor of unlocking the well & being the first to pump gushes of clean, fresh water for the MTM Dumay School! Everyone is excited about access to this life-changing gift!

Pastor Matt, Iowa team member, delivered a simple message about Jesus being the real Living Water! He also blessed the well, the land, the school, the students & staff and the community of Dumay.
Check out these smiles!

PRAISE THE LORD!

Dumay Water Well, IT IS FINISHED!

Greetings from Haiti this Sunday evening!

Lots of breakdowns & 120 feet later, the MTM school at the village of Dumay finally has a working water well!

Praise the Lord!

We are grateful for those of you who have generously given to help make this happen.

The school will no longer have to haul water from the river for cooking in the cafeteria & there is now a clean, free-flowing supply of water not just for the school, but for that immediate area.

(Pictures to follow).

John Paul Update

I had hoped to have a smiling face of Jean Paul by now, but my apologies as we do not have.

Just the same, we wanted you all to know his current condition is...

BLESSED!

When our dear friend was rolling down the mountain & then landed at the bottom, he testified in church the following week that the only thing he could remember was that Willem had prayed over the congregation at the close of service Sunday night, asking God for protection over each person there. Needless to say, Jean Paul then began praising God!

Three cuts on his back & a laceration on his arm that warranted some stitches aren't bad for a "roll" down a mountain side with a machete in your hand!

We praise God along with Jean Paul for his protection over these precious people that HE has placed us here to serve.

Praise the Lord!

GRAMOTHE CLINIC WAITING AREA PROGRESSION

Just a few pictures to update the progression of the Gramothe Clinic Waiting Area.

MTM is currently hosting a medical team from the Chicago, IL area. In two weeks a team from Dubuque, Iowa will come to build benches for the waiting area so that it will be ready for use when the February medical team arrives.

We praise God for the ability to provide this waiting area for our patients! A great big THANK YOU to those who gave financially to make this happen.

Setting iron for reinforcement in the roof.

Mixing cement by hand & dipping buckets to transfer it to the roof.

"The bucket brigade"~sending cement to the roof.

Nearly finished.

A day's job done. The cement roof has been poured & now time will complete the process.