I’m currently sitting on our old blue sofa, listening to Fefe play with her dolls. She likes to play with them in the bathroom – I think, because there’s a window in there. The generator overheated and we have no power and thus, no lights or air. It has been a really relaxing morning. I slept in, and had coffee (brewed before the generator quit!) and hard-boiled eggs without leaving our house. Jay brought some college guys in to help hang the rest of our blinds and the clean the filters on our air-conditioners. Our boys took off for the office on their bikes to play on the computers. After watching the boys ride bikes last week, Fedlaine taught herself how to ride a bike with no training wheels. She refused help. Now she and the boys ride all over campus.
Jay just took off to go back to Tou Cayman. Yesterday when Pierre went to do follow-up with those who prayed to receive Christ, over 200 people showed up. The tent we set up was too small to hold them all! We have a team coming today who will be doing vision clinics, so Jay went today to hand-out tickets in Tou Cayman. The tickets will help with crowd-control.
After he gets back, Jay will be heading to the airport to do one of the six airport runs today. We have so many teams coming and going that I can’t keep track. While the Elliotts have lots on their plate keeping track of meals and beds and airport runs, Jay is busy keeping machinery running, chickens fed, generators going, construction projects progressing, and of course, other duties as needed. (Will you pray for God to sustain us?)
As for me, after taking some girl-time with Anna this morning (she was my partner in coffee drinking), I’m off to the office to do school planning and grading. It was a crazy week, trying to get settled in our new place. But the bunk-beds have been built, our clock has been hung, pictures are out, the coffee maker works, and the place is starting to feel like home. To be honest, I fluctuate between utter relief at having a structured place for our family to live, and guilt at having so much more than pretty much every other person I see all day long.
Well, time to get off the couch. The only thing I can do is to receive God’s blessings with thanksgiving and do my best to be a blessing to others.
Jay just took off to go back to Tou Cayman. Yesterday when Pierre went to do follow-up with those who prayed to receive Christ, over 200 people showed up. The tent we set up was too small to hold them all! We have a team coming today who will be doing vision clinics, so Jay went today to hand-out tickets in Tou Cayman. The tickets will help with crowd-control.
After he gets back, Jay will be heading to the airport to do one of the six airport runs today. We have so many teams coming and going that I can’t keep track. While the Elliotts have lots on their plate keeping track of meals and beds and airport runs, Jay is busy keeping machinery running, chickens fed, generators going, construction projects progressing, and of course, other duties as needed. (Will you pray for God to sustain us?)
As for me, after taking some girl-time with Anna this morning (she was my partner in coffee drinking), I’m off to the office to do school planning and grading. It was a crazy week, trying to get settled in our new place. But the bunk-beds have been built, our clock has been hung, pictures are out, the coffee maker works, and the place is starting to feel like home. To be honest, I fluctuate between utter relief at having a structured place for our family to live, and guilt at having so much more than pretty much every other person I see all day long.
Well, time to get off the couch. The only thing I can do is to receive God’s blessings with thanksgiving and do my best to be a blessing to others.