Construction is moving along slowly as funds allow but because of your support we now have and office and we just finished covering the church with plywood. Monday they will cover the plywood with tin. The plywood layer helps us support the deadly heat that we would recieve from a direct hit to the tin. Our school kids were thrilled to come to school and find it half covered and experience a day out from under the tarps and out of the mud that surrounded their feet and was causing deterioration of our benches. The older students were jealous of the younger students getting to be under the roof first. Monday, Lord willing, all classes will be held under the new roof. We praise God for His provision through you our supporters. Thank you for sacrificially giving so that our ministry may continue.

Tomorrow we will be able to worship in our new facility even without walls. It's cooler that way anyway. We can't leave it this way as the foundation is high off the ground and the kids would be swinging on all the bars like monkeys. We also need to be able to leave things for church inside and shut the door.

It is a relief not to have tarps that get torn hanging down in your face or ropes coming undone and the whole tarp whipping in the wind. The heat beneath the tarps is sometimes unbearable. We are thankful to not have to run to stack all the benches and cover them with a tarp as the rain is coming. The people in our yard are still sleeping under the tarp. Now if it is raining, they will be able to get under the roof which will keep them much dryer as they wait for us to finish the walls.

This week was deadlock as far as the work getting the container and backhoe out of customs. Wilckly made trips to St.Marc and on one occasion the pick-up broke down and he had to wait for us to get back from PAP with the truck to turn around and go after him and pull the pick-up home. It is still sitting there waiting for a mechanic as Wilckly has been so busy supervising the construction and covering of the church, supervising the welding on the building that will house guests temporarily and supervising the digging of the next foundation, not to mention trying to make sure we are on top of getting things out of customs, not to mention all the other little every day occupations.

Shaina and I spent time with the school children this week. Our main goal was to take a picture of them and have them write a thank you to their sponsor. They were thrilled with the distraction from their school day. We are excited about preparing these photos and thank you notes to send to the greatly deserving sponsors. We appreciate you. Without your support, many of them would never go to school. The would spend the day carrying water in a five gallon bucket or going to the market with their mother. Thank you all for the support of Blessing Hearts International ministries in Haiti.

Dee