{"id":745,"date":"2011-03-22T18:27:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T23:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/?p=745"},"modified":"2012-06-23T23:56:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T04:56:20","slug":"a-destitute-family-and-village-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/?p=745","title":{"rendered":"A Destitute Family and Village Events"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill called me early one morning.\u00a0 He was hiking up the hill to take some food to a family<\/p>\n

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Destitute family’s home<\/p><\/div>\n

who lives not far from Yvrose\u2019.\u00a0 This picture is where they \u201clive\u201d.\u00a0 This is not uncommon and it is heart breaking.\u00a0 I asked him for details about the family.\u00a0 He sent the following:<\/p>\n

You wanted to know more about this family. What can I say?! They came down from the mountains to find a \u201dbetter\u201d life! 4 little ones. She recently lost two babies (not sure about the details).\u00a0 The father showed up at church a couple of weeks ago and told us how blessed he was for being there. He said he had been up with his wife most of the night and was not sure if she would live till morning! We have been to visit a couple of times taking them some provisions (rice, beans, cornmeal and flour). We think the mother has congestive heart failure.\u00a0 Not an easy place to celebrate so “we weep with those who weep and rejoice with those who rejoice”.\u00a0 And, we remember that “sorrow endures for a night but joy comes in the morning”!!<\/p>\n

A young man from the states, Chevo, arrived last week to help Bill for a couple of weeks.\u00a0 He has been working in the village to rebuild a widow\u2019s twig and mud hut with rock walls.\u00a0 An update from Bill:<\/p>\n

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Chevo and helper working on widow’s home<\/p><\/div>\n

Chevo\u2019s first morning! \u00a0As you can see this house needs some T.L.C. I don’t know how good he is at T.L.C. but as the photo shows he sure can demolish stuff!<\/p>\n

The people in this village are in such need. Do the roofs leak? Yep! They might shed 80% of the rain! The kids get wet and the rats bite them at night!! So we are building this house\u00a0back with stone. I hope Chevo is blessed. I know he is a blessing!!!!<\/p>\n

Twice now JUST MERCY has provided food to have a meal for the village next door.\u00a0 We<\/p>\n

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Cooking the meal at the village<\/p><\/div>\n

may try to make it a weekly event.\u00a0 Before the first, Bill wrote:<\/p>\n

We will cook our fellowship meal at the village today. I think everyone knows my name now and my knock on the door always brings a shout of joy. How do we measure success? I was thinking of the words<\/p>\n

“They will remember almost nothing of what you say, only slightly more of what you do, but they will remember for the rest of there lives how you made them feel”.<\/p>\n

When I think about being with Jesus as He journeyed through this world, being there when He said, “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone”, or on the road with the blind man or the leper.\u00a0 How about in the boat when He said “Peace, be still!” or sitting at His feet when He fed the five thousand. I can hear the murmur of the crowds. I can feel the wind and spray of the sea on my face but I don’t think so much of the miracles themselves as I think of how He makes me feel!! So today……..<\/p>\n

“I’ll pause at Your gates once more<\/p>\n

As my heart and my spirit soar<\/p>\n

And I wish I could love You more<\/p>\n

My God and my King”!<\/p>\n

After the second time, Bill wrote:<\/p>\n

The fellowship dinner went well. This time we cooked 50#s of rice, 10#s of beans, and made\u00a0fish sauce\u00a0out of canned mackerel!\u00a0 Believe it or not, YUMMYYY! We had food for everyone, although there were so many there, at the beginning, it was not a foregone conclusion.\u00a0You can imagine, in\u00a0Haiti, what a mass of confusion such an undertaking can precipitate!<\/p>\n

We were able to get the younger ones fed first, then the pregnant and nursing mothers followed by the rest of the women, then the men! No easy task! All the noise, the clamor of voices of people, all wanting to be next!\u00a0 However, it was fairly orderly by Haitian standards!! After a while I made my way out of the melee of a couple of hundred people or so and as I reached the outer edges, I heard singing. I looked up and saw Yvrose’s children standing by their van and singing with such joy and conviction…<\/p>\n

God will make a way<\/p>\n

When there seams to be no way<\/p>\n

He works in ways we cannot see<\/p>\n

He will make a way for me<\/p>\n

They were the last to eat and there was plenty!!\u00a0 “And the last shall be first and the first last”<\/p>\n

Thank you so much for your prayers and support.\u00a0 We covet your prayers as we seek to share God\u2019s love in Haiti.\u00a0 We are so grateful for those who are helping make it possible for us to stay.\u00a0 May God bless you all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill called me early one morning.\u00a0 He was hiking up the hill to take some food to a family who lives not far from Yvrose\u2019.\u00a0 This picture is where they \u201clive\u201d.\u00a0 This is not uncommon and it is heart breaking.\u00a0 I asked him for details about the family.\u00a0 He sent …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}