Blog setting changes

Morning blog world,

I have had several comments to change the settings on my blog so that anyone can post comments and not just registered users. I didn't even realize I had those settings, sorry!! So, as of now anyone can post but I will have to review the postings first (in case someone I don't know post something inappropriate). Sorry it took me so long to catch on and make the setting changes.

Happy Lord's Day everyone!
Haley

NC Baptist Men in Haiti

My brother in law, Chris, sent me this email and I was so touched I had to post it here. The NC Baptist Men are a fantastic group who serve the Lord so eagerly and passionately. Reading this makes me proud to be a Baptist!! :)

Dear Family and Friends,

You may not know but here in Haiti we are wearing new shirts that are red. They say Rescue 24 which represents our rapid response search and rescue teams from NCBM (North Carolina Baptist Men). I have just come in from hanging the clothesline full of red Rescue 24 shirts. They are quite a sight flapping in the breeze. Scott has told the story of being mistaken for an angel when our disaster volunteers wearing yellow shirts arrived on a site in Gulfport after Hurricane Katrina. Here in Haiti our red shirts are our badge to travel and enter into any area we need. They are so respected that our handymen can walk into the operating room freely. Our Haitian drivers wear one to have access thru the gates of the compound and clear passage on the roads thru roadblocks. This morning our newest interpreter was given one to wear to the clinic and to gain entrance to the compound. He beamed from ear to ear...."NOW I am a member of the team!" he said.

Team 8 arrived two days ago..after a 10 hr. road trip from the DR....all "green" and full of questions and energy. Team 7 left this morning to return to Santo Domingo and home. They are now veterans and well-bonded from their shared experiences in the hospitals, long drives on hot, dusty, congested roads, scenes of Haitian peoples and tent cities, sights of piles of rubble with people digging to find anything of value and of sharing our only 2 bathrooms and close living quarters. The medical staff have experienced medicine in different conditions, lack of facilities, lack of their customary equipment, working in tents and in courtyards under tarps, seeing diseases that are rare at home...TB, malaria, scabies, thypoid. ...falling in love with orphan children.

Two days ago our doctors retrieved 19 children from an orphanage run by an 86 yr old lady.

These 19 were sick, starving and malnurished. They were taken to Community Hospital were a tent was set up for them to receive treatment for the next four days. Our feeding people prepared special "rice soup" for them to eat. Some were not able to eat it yet and are on Pedialite. They were all clean and cared for.....they simply didn't have any food.

Arrangements are made for them to go to another orphanage upon release. But I am sure that they will never forget the "angels" in red shirts.

Our feeding team has been feeding 300-400 patients and staff at the hospital ...delivering meals to each room and trying to manage the many people who line up wanting a meal but perhaps are not staff. ....cooking with Haitian volunteers in a basement kitchen on small gas burners in gigantic pots. Our handymen have installed 3 sinks with running water and some lighting down there. They have also built shelving to try and organize the mountain of donated supplies and food that come in and have been stacked in hallways. And they have began constructing a small shower house for the male team members here at the team house. That will relieve some of our "necessary" needs.

Our medical director here for NCBM ... Dr. Eric has started two clinics here in nearby villages. In the clinic in Cite Soleil he and other med staff saw 280 patients last week and had 3 salvations. The new clinic in Cabaret will open tomorrow. I was excited to accompany Dr. Eric and 3 team guys to scout out the location. It will be in a classroom at a church and school. The church and school both are heavily damaged but one room is save and secure for use. I will have to tell you that both sites have some toilets that I have never seen before. They are pit toilets built of concrete with square holes for the openings. Outside the gates of the church yard, there is a sight that I can not get used to seeing.

People are living in shipping containers. They have them set up on metal tire rims for cornerstones. On the open door end, they have built a thatch covered "porch". I have seen them also in other areas. I cannot imagine how hot and dark they are inside. But I also cannot imagine living in the open with rice bags stretched on sticks for walls. Rainy season is approaching. It has rained a little for 2-3 nights. The UN and US Army has switched their priority from food to shelter and waste management. The once bare mountainsides near our compound are now dotted with make shift shanties. The number grows daily. There are an estimated 1.2 million displaced people here.

Please pray for our volunteers who are giving so much of their selves. Please pray that others will say "Yes, send me." Please pray that people at home will continue to care for "the least of these" and not forget. Please pray for the more than 400,000 orphans here. For they are truly the "least of these". Please pray for our military who are not only helping the Haitian people but providing needed security for us. Please pray for the volunteers who are coming with Samaritan's Purse. They are doing much good here.

Please pray that our witness will be bold. Please pray for our continued strength and wisdom in carrying out this mission. Please pray that I never tire of hanging out Red shirts!

In Christ's love and service, Janet and Scott

http://www.baptistsonmission.org/Projects/disasterrelief/2010Response/Haiti.aspx

Jim Burchette

Special Projects Coordinator

North Carolina Baptist Men

jburchette@ncbaptist.org

800.395.5102 x 5612

919.459.5612 Direct Line

919.467.5100 Fax

www.ncmissions.org

Your generous giving to the North Carolina Missions Offering and contributions through the Cooperative Program make the ministries of NCBM possible. Thank you!

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Eat more chickin!

I love this picture of my nephews!! They look so grown up. Makes me miss home and Chick fila!

Painting class

I am now taking an acrylic painting class every Tuesday night and am loving it!! I am by no means a natural or even very good but it is a lot of fun and a nice break for me. I thought I'd get over my pride and show off my first two weeks efforts.

Week 1


Week 2

Valentine's Day Preparations

My strawberry funfetti cake for Valentines Day..

Molly helping..

Oh yeahhh..

Remnants of the icing...
follow up after the icing.. Molly bounced off the wall, talking to herself and walking around in circles, riding her little tikes car faster than ever, etc.. thus, sugar should be eaten in moderation :)

New bag

We went to the 99p store (like the dollar store only much much nicer) this past weekend and they had these little purses on sale. So Molly had to have one and has carried it around ever since. She is so prissy! I have no idea where she gets it from. She even drinks her milk with her pinky out and will not eat if she has anything on her hands or mouth. So funny!

No nap means..

This is what happens when 1 year olds refuse to take their naps...

They fall asleep at the dinner table!

Egypt part 3

Molly's favorite balcony game.

Snuggling is much better than swimming

Bryon went snorkeling in the Red Sea along side lots of incredibly beautiful fish and mean barracudas.. yikes!

Bonding with Daniel on the way to the airport heading back to the UK. Bye Bye Egypt, we had a great time!

More Egypt

Having a little juice treat before boarding the submarine

Submarine trip in the Red Sea

Loving all the brightly colored fish

I think we wore her out. She took long naps every day and slept well every night!

Nana having a great time on her camel.

Bryon, Molly and Nana riding their camels, and prego me leading the way.

Heading single file down to the water

Nana and Molly on the beach

Molly wasn't so sure about her baby camel but finally sat on him as long as Bryon held her.

Egypt

I don't know if I have ever seen such blue clear water. It was really beautiful.

The magnificent Red Sea. It was quite the feeling knowing that so many years ago Moses led the children of Israel through this area as they fled out of Egypt remembering how Moses parted the Red Sea for the people to pass. Just an hour from where we were is thought to be Mount Sinai where Moses was given the Ten Commandments and just beyond that is the area of the burning bush. How great is our God!

Sharm Grand Plaza Resort in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt

This was the typical view while we walked around the hotel. Beautiful flowers and palm trees and Molly holding two people by the hand while do a little strut.

Molly in front of the hibiscus.

Group shot on the beach after a long day of swimming, exploring and shopping!

Trying to get Molly to 'touch' the Red Sea. Finally, this way worked but not without many painful efforts :)

The only pool Molly would consider swimming in was the lukewarm jacuzzi. They had a really neat Mickey Mouse pool but it was too cold and she screamed when we tried to get her in that one. On our second day there, she finally consented to giving this pool a try and actually started enjoying it!

Nana and Molly, best buddies

Looking at the fish from the pier at our hotel