So, I'm still in the United States, and since mid-July I've been in Arizona. Here I've gotten to meet and get to know lots of wonderful people from Epic Christian Church, my main sending church. The past few weeks have been full of lunches and dinners and coffees and frozen yogurts with people from church, as well as formal presentations at community groups. I've actually been gone four years now -- and even though I've come back for a little while each year there's still a lot of catching up to do! I'm staying with a lovely family in San Tan Valley, Arizona. Their middle child was in my two-year-old Sunday School class back when I was living here. It's been fun to hang out with him and his sisters: talking about their school day, sharing Bible stories, and even spotting them as they do pull-ups (they like to keep me company as I do P90X).
I also continue to work with our team in Haiti from afar. We communicate via text and telephone -- and thankfully I finally found a reasonably economical phone card. Our office in Cap Haitien hasn't had any reliable internet for the past several weeks, though. The cable internet is not working and our neighbor finally put a lock on his wireless account.
Some of my latest projects?
- helping plan trainings with other mission organizations in Haiti
- detailing plans for a Canadian missionary couple that will be coming to join us in November for nine months
- next year's budget
I get back to Haiti at the end of the month. Some of my goals before returning:
- two-year supply of contacts -- done
- source for contact lens solution -- sort of done
- piano books for the music institute kids -- started
- new passport -- done
- appointment with a dentist -- done and in tip-top shape
- virus-free netbooks running Linux -- done
- purchase electronic items my co-workers (from Haiti to Argentina) have requested -- started
- Hepatitis C test (I got stuck by a dirty needle last fall) -- done and clear
- work on CHE lessons for our CD in Haitian Kreyol -- not even going to start
- send pictures of ministry in Haiti to our co-worker in Finland for future website use -- not started yet
- a cleaned out e-mail inbox (I'm really far from this one)
