Joplin Helps Haiti

Dear Friends, As you know, Bill has spent the summer trying to recover from his knee replacement surgery May 25th.  He is still pretty uncomfortable, especially if he is up on it long, but for several reasons, did not feel he could delay returning to Haiti any longer. Bill and Jesse left today for a two weeks trip to Haiti.  A friend, Cody Moore, went with them.  He will be there for a week.  Another friend, John Padron, will join them on Friday for 10 days. We have three main goals we hope to accomplish during this two weeks.  The first is for the village next door.  As we told you in accounts of the spring trip to Haiti, the houses in the village next door leak when it rains.  The...

Bill, Jesse, and I returned to the states on Tuesday this week.  We had had no electricity for a week so I'm behind on updating you and there is so much tell, it is not possible without going on longer than anyone wants to read.  I will try to touch on the highlights of the week with the story of our last evening in Haiti at the end. We did get to take one trip into the mountains, driving up a dry flood river bed which I finally realized was the place one of the torrents took place during the hurricane last year that swept away entire villages.  Remains of the old road high up on the side of the hill could be seen that had collapsed as the water swept away the mountain beneath it!  So now,...