Hi everyone!  It has been a very busy and fruitful past couple of days.  Saw 60 patients in clinic on Thursday and 20 on Friday.  The rest of the team arrived safely on Thursday.  Thursday evening we had a chance to let everyone relax and rest up from the travel.

On Friday, the guys had the large, dirty task of sanding the stucco walls of the eye clinic so they would be ready to paint when the time is right.  We also received assurances that the roof should be on by the end of April - keep praying for this to happen.  Laurie and I met with the Pastor of the church to go over final details for the conference.  Huge blessings - we will have 39 or 40 women which means we have enough of the lovely gift bags put together by women's bible studies!  One of our translators is also part of the worship team at church - we have a pianist to help lead the worship time! We were prepared to do a capella if necessary.
  We topped off the day by having group devotions and watching the stars come our on the roof of one of the buildings. Such a blessing to enjoy Gods majesty,

We started today at 5:45 with a climb up the mountain to watch the sunrise and to greet the many people who were on their way to market (a 1 or 2 hour trip with heavy loads for many of them).  After that we spent much of the day working on the optometry house painting trim and preparing the porch for painting.  Just as we were sitting down for lunch (prepared by our housekeeper who is an amazing cook) and old friend, Frank Charlemagne stopped by.  Frank has worked with the eye clinic from the very first time we came to Haiti.  He is currently working as a translator/driver for reach global.  It was a blessing to share memories together.

It is getting late so I will have to quit for now - we are feeling encouraged and blessed this night!