Author: bryan@bmeyers.net (Page 65 of 101)

Friends of Haiti:

Monthly medical update: July wasn’t a great month for Terry. Because her immune system hasn’t fully recovered yet, she had a throat infection…and three days after finishing the medicine for that, she developed a respiratory infection. Although her blood counts are in a normal range, some are still at the low end of normal and her platelet volume is not where it should be yet. So to say the least, she still needs prayers.

I did make a trip to Haiti right before she got sick the first time and it was very good to get back even if for a short visit (or short for me). Everything is just as I knew it would be, running without a problem. After almost two decades of working with most of the people who work with us now, we knew it would be.

I have included a better picture of Beaubrun’s new school building. Yes, it is made of tin and, yes, it is hot. But we don’t have to worry about things happening to it the way we would have to with wood. There is also a better shot of the water pump in use in front of the school. Carrying water is one of the kids “chores” in Haiti, and as you can see they aren’t small buckets. For those who have been there, this is right before we would turn left to go down the small road to the other building. Its just a much better spot for everything and all the kids.

If everything goes as planned (and they haven’t for at least a year), we’ll be seeing some of you this month, others in September. Then I hope to be able to make an extended trip to Haiti in October.

Thank you again for all the prayers and cards for Terry and thank you for being a blessing to so many in Haiti.

Friends of Haiti:

Terry’s progress is going really well. One thing — she can’t take the follow up medicine that helps prevent it from coming back. In some people, her being one of them, it causes a very bad and itchy rash….all over her body. Her next round of blood testing is the 23rd of this month and hopefully between now and then they will come up with a solution. So let’s all pray she is a person who doesn’t need that particular medicine.

With everything else going on we didn’t mention that March marked the twentieth anniversary of the ministry. It really was a very fast twenty years and years we wouldn’t take back for anything, because to us it has been nothing but a blessing. It goes without saying all of you have been a part of that blessing. Who knows how many people you have helped feed or provide medicine for during that time…the number of kids who have learned how to read and write?

Without Terry’s blessing (she doesn’t like the picture) I have included one that was taken of us Thanksgiving 1995  when we were still working on the island of La Gonave, just off the coast of Haiti and her first trip there. You may know it was not a good trip for her because of all the political problems going on at that time; missing our flight home; and not knowing where to go that night. But God provided for that just as He has for all the needs since.

It has been a very good twenty years, because of you, and because we know it is what we are supposed to be doing. It has been your unselfish giving that has made everything done possible.

As always thank you for praying for Terry and helping our friends in Haiti.

Steve and Terry

P.S. Since I don’t have to be with Terry 24 hours a day now, by the time you read this I will be back in Haiti for the first trip back since she was diagnosed. It will be good to see everyone again.