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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

02/ 22/ 2018 Time Flies when you are very busy Well a lot has happened since the last blog. Here in Haiti Carnival or we would be more familiar with Mardi Gras is a very big event. The schools close, hospitals only take emergency patients, banks close ect. The school we live on top of had their own Carnival. It was very fun, many of the parents came, and there was music, dancing and lots of food. We were happy to celebrate with the community. Last week there was visitors at the Sisters house from Tennessee, we had met them

February 5th, 2018 What we have been up to The Parish we serve in Riviere Mancelle has split into two parishes. Two of our five schools, our apartment and The Fr. Jim Agricultural Center are in the new parish; this creates some confusion. The Twinned parishes have agreed to continue their support of the two schools in the new parish for this year The Haiti Project is mostly located in the new parish (we live above one of the schools, and our Center surrounds the other school), so without abandoning our home it would be very difficult to with withdraw

Thank you to those who let us know that our last blog failed to post.I am posting this by phone and when we have access to a faster connection we will attempt to repost. This may take a few days. As Sr Pat says, "It takes three things to work in Haiti, Patience, Patience, and Patience. Blessings to all, Bob and Denise