{"id":779,"date":"2010-12-24T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-25T02:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/?p=779"},"modified":"2012-06-23T23:44:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T04:44:03","slug":"december-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"December 2010 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

The day before Christmas Eve this week as we prepared for our family to arrive for the holiday, another group was at our house in Haiti.\u00a0 Grassroots United, who sent the Global DIRT team we were with in the mountains to assess the cholera situation, sent a team of six people to our house to prepare to leave on Christmas Eve day for a three day trip into the mountains to take medicine, water filters, and other supplies but mostly to try to educate the people on how to prevent cholera.<\/p>\n

This was the expedition that was supposed to happen the second week of December just after we left Haiti but, because of the election results and subsequent rioting, had to be put off till now.\u00a0 When we left, the cholera clinic next door was reporting a slow down in the number of patients coming for help but the next week it rained, spreading the cholera in the water, and they have been over run with patients ever since.\u00a0 Bill will be returning to Haiti next week to help.<\/p>\n

I also in this message wanted to correct a story I had told earlier.\u00a0 As you know, we have\u00a0been very impressed with Yvrose, the lady who has the school of 150 children about half a mile from our home in Haiti and who has taken in or \u201cadopted\u201d 14 children.\u00a0 Actually, she has taken in two more since we left so the number is up to 16 now!\u00a0 She and her husband have a couple of young ladies helping her with the children.<\/p>\n

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Yvrose in front of her two rented rooms<\/p><\/div>\n

I reported that she ran the school and she and her husband lived in a house they had built.\u00a0 Somehow that was the impression I had gotten.\u00a0 Actually, they do own the land the three large tents they use for the school are on.\u00a0 However, the house they are living in is leased next to their land.\u00a0 They leased the house for a year, or so they thought.\u00a0 After giving the landlord the money, he came back and told them they were only leasing one ROOM in the house for a year, an impossible situation with 14 children!\u00a0 So they negotiated and instead took two rooms for six months!\u00a0 No electricity or running water.\u00a0 They have to haul it in.<\/p>\n

Yvrose loves the Lord and it is a great blessing to us to be able to talk with her.\u00a0 She traveled to the mountains with us and was invaluable in translating for us.\u00a0 Bill went up one evening to visit with them and found the children singing, \u201cJehovah, Jirah, my Provider\u201d.\u00a0 That song really means something when often they do not know where their next meal is coming from!\u00a0 She gets some help from friends in the states and looks to the Lord to meet their needs. \u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m blessed and amazed at the life of faith they are living.<\/p>\n

Please pray for the people of Haiti, for Yvrose and her family, for the people spending Christmas in the mountains of Haiti trying to save lives, and for all of God\u2019s people around the world seeking to serve Him in dire situations.\u00a0\u00a0May we not take our blessings for granted and may you and your family have a blessed and joyous Christmas as we remember the birth of our Savior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The day before Christmas Eve this week as we prepared for our family to arrive for the holiday, another group was at our house in Haiti.\u00a0 Grassroots United, who sent the Global DIRT team we were with in the mountains to assess the cholera situation, sent a team of six …<\/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-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","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=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justmercy.org\/WordPress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}