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Our first vanilla beans!!!

If we do not take care of the earth, We lose. And you shall inherit the earth…….

We had a successful vanilla pollinating session, however we are returning to the US early to be with my sister and family as she enters hospice care.Thank all of you for your friendship and support. Blessings and peace, Bob

First blossom!!!!!!

Latest picture of the vanilla. Should bloom any day. Denise and I are leaving tomorrow morning for Haiti. This is exciting. Thank you everyone for making this possible. P.S. We finished with the sea container last Wednesday. Today we received word that the seven containers the Parish Twinning Program collected is on board a ship that sailed this morning. We are hoping to see it safely arrive in Haiti. Peace and Joy these beautiful spring days, Bob

Vanilla is getting ready to produce flowers….We polinators are preparing…..

I was searching through my photos and came across this beautiful young lady as she was going through a series of emotions. Blessings Bob

March 20th 2018 Home again Our last couples of weeks in Haiti were very busy. We met with several people, had a baby with kwashiorkor (a very severe malnourished condition were the child lacks protein). Anita helped to arrange a hospital that would accept the baby boy. Bob drove the child and his grandmother four and a half miles to get to the hospital; the baby will need to be in treatment for six months. We also gave a agricultural workshop. The workshop was a really big success, with 65 participants and another twenty leaders and helpers. We covered three

February 28, 2018 Questions and Answers We have been approached by two different publications lately wanting to do articles about our work. We find this very humbling because to us we are just being obedient to God. He called us and we went, often not really sure if we are heading in the right direction or not. The Tennessee Register (diocesan news paper) just printed n article about our work. It was well written and we are very honored. One of the questions we were asked is what is the hardest part of your work? I have been thinking about