Pictures ... Finally

These are Gene's Pictures, so I won't be able to describe precisely the context around each of them, but I should be able to get fairly close (CLICK ON PICS if you want to see a larger view):

Building of the One Family in Christ ministry. By the grace of God, OFiC's 35 orphans were gardening and playing outside during the earthquakes- not one of them was lost. The reason so many lives were lost in Haiti was because: 1) the buildings are poorly constructed; 2) they are all made of concrete and cinder blocks, many floors without horizontal rebar; and 3) the earthquake of Jan. 12th shook for a mere 34 seconds.  A lot of buildings went down very quickly.  If you look closely, the bottom floor of this building is completely gone.  Joe Knittig is taking it all in.

Building near or in Port-au-Prince devastated by the quakes.

Tent city set up for refugees.

Charlene at Love a Child village where a trauma center staffed by American docs was located. 10yr. old Charlene lost her mom and siblings in the earthquakes and ended up with nerve damage in her lower legs. If you look closely at the boy in the bed next to her, he has lost his lower right leg. There were a lot of amputees, young and old alike, at Love a Child.

Some kids we met near Mirebalais by the dam of Peligre. Tracey Kidder talks about the dam in Mountains Beyond Mountains.

The beautiful country by the dam in Peligre.

Trey, Me, Frank

Typical Haitian meal ... fried plantains, rice, beans, goat, cole slaw and some french fries! Pictured also is Pastor Marcel in the yellow and TouTou our security guard.

Trey feeding Chris (please do not ask).

Container shipment in Croix Des Bouquets.

Some of the boys at Ebenezer orphanage in Croix helping us offload the container "assembly-line style."

The crane that we set up and the container we lowered in Mirebalais.

Bags of oats, rice, tuna, cooking oil, other supplies and my backside (some would argue it's my best side).

Some of the family packs that were distributed in Mirebalais.

Walking through an orphanage in Mirebalais that is home to 45 deaf children.



Guest House in Mirebalais that will house our 35 Grace Chapel people in late March (assuming it is complete). If the GH is not complete, we will stay in The Wozo.  How's that for the name of a hotel?

Gene and Trey biding their time on a bus in the Dominican Republic, waiting a couple more days for their flight home.