A few video clips

This is a little clip from Church on Sunday We had 2 work teams with us at new life deaf church and I was holding a very wiggly 8 mos old baby so please forgive me for the unsteadiness of the picture. and for all the random heads and hands you see :)

This is a few from the Dayton Christian School Every night they would do a skit and song for the kids as part of their ministry.

Meet Dayton Christian High School

Good Thursday Afternoon Everyone. My work team just left and I now have a few days to clean up and sort after them before a work couple comes to stay. God has been So good to me with this group. They are regulars that come every year so they were not as dependent on me freeing me up to catch up on all the things I have been neglecting for the past 3 weeks, and time to just enjoy myself and spend time with the team and the kids. I have a lot of prayer requests Satan seems to be hitting us hard right now at C.C.C.D. I don't know what I have already written or told many of you about but i will just list them. A student from C.C.C.D MoBay got Dengue fever and died recently Shamika Crooks I believe was her name. Lots of sicknesses going around and the chicken pox are making another round through the school, A teacher that just went on maternity leave lost her husband two weeks ago and they don't know why he got so sick. He was around 30. That leaves us without a teacher here and a serious need for one. Work Permits... we have hit a big stop as of round one the Hubers have been denied and the Plattners and I don't have a for sure answer but they are saying they are unsure about us because we have no experience in teaching the deaf. The excuses they are giving are very weak and we are now at plan B where we start to write letters, see who we know who knows somebody who knows somebody who can help us. We are hoping this is an opportunity from God to make new connections and relationships with the new government so that hopefully in the future we will have a good foundation with them to build on. Thank you for your prayers and support. Some days they are what truly gets me through. Have a great Day! Keep looking up and smiling HUGE because GOD is always in complete control and I Love You. Be blessed and be a blessing -Erin-

Familiar Faces

Warren Kloter, Blake Widmer, Rachel Cook, Me, Jessica ?, Ionda Campbell

Praise the Lord for one night last week I was able to have a

social life with friends and people my own age!

Breaking and entering

The ants are every where!

Good Sunday Morning Everyone. I pray that the Lord is blessing your day. I feel guilty and am going to share. Yesterday I added breaking and entering onto my long list of experiences down here in Jamaica. And not only did I do it once but twice in one day! We have now started day 3 with no water, We have a good size work team here and also one of the Hardy boys and his family are staying in the hardy house for a week. So water is needed. Any way because of no water I had 3 bottled waters and that was it so I broke into kirk and keri's apt (since they are in MoBay) and took (with their permission) all the big tubs of water they had saved up (Praise the Lord they were thinking ahead). With this new supply of water I was able to do my dishes (and stop the ants from over taking my apt) and get some what clean. Later that night Nancy Snook (the team leader) and I broke into an office to get the projector so we could use it for the movie night with the kids. We had the key to the grate and the door but once we were inside the class room we did not have a key to the office (down here every door has at least one lock if not 2 or 3 that you have to get through and at times it can be very tricky since keys always seems to be missing) When we came to the final door we could not get it open but felt like we had come to far to stop so i was able to wiggle the glass slat in the window enough to slide a finger in and pop the lock allowing us to open the slats. We then had to go to the older boys asking the question I didn't want to know the answer too. Who knows how to break into a room? We found someone no problem who got in through a window got us the projector got out and put everything perfectly in place like we had never been there at all. Praise God it was a fun night with the kids watching movies with them is so much fun to see there faces and reactions and its a nice down time with them to just relax with them. Have a great rest of the weekend. Enjoy your Sabbath. Be blessed and be a blessing -Erin-

More Ripping

I had to say goodbye to a friend today and of course there was more ripping and tears. I don't like leaving days they seem to be getting harder for me. And then when I stopped for a min. I relalized I need a soul care day so that is what I am doing. After I made sure the work team I was to be hosting didn't show up last night like they were supposed too. I started my soul care day by being lazy with the computer for a while. I went home to sleep for a few more hours (the nights have been very short) went for a nice walk to the post office to collect the mail that has been forgotten about for the last week. And now I am getting ready to head back to my apt. with my mail, my computer and be lazy and enjoy myself for the rest of the day doing whatever comes to mind as long as it doesn't involve water.(we still have none of that!). God is Good All the Time. Be blessed and be a blessing.-Erin-

This is the Jamaica I know and Love!

Good Friday Morning All! I pray that the Lord is blessing you day. I have been spoiled down here for the most part with electricity more often then not and starting each day with a hot shower. With in the past week or two we have had two (rather long) power outages were we end up eating by candle light and if at home i just go to bed because there is nothing more to do. Last night was one of those nights but GOD blessed it with great food and fellowship with friends. Once the power went out Rachel Cook (a teacher here with me) Blake Widmer and myself loaded up and headed over to JDV for a nice meal of chicken from bowls? (i think that's the name of it?) with the Hubers, Mark White (the managing director of C.C.C.D. on the u.s. side) Warren Kloter and Jessica (sorry i can't remember her last name) from Conn. We had a great time hanging out then talking and when the lights finally did end up coming on playing cards until we could not focus anymore we were so tired. Once I got home the grate was locked (even though i thought Ionda texted Kadene for me to tell her to leave it open) So i was locked out of the walk way that leads to my apt. At this point I had to become creative (since i don't have a key) and crawl over the railing very carefully walk along the ledge to get around the post and to the other side where i once again had to crawl over the railing and onto the walk way. Praise the Lord that I didn't fall! Then when I got home last night I didn't have any water... and when I woke up this morning i still didn't have any water. It hit me as I was walking back from the great house (after seeing if there was water up there) I realized how spoiled i have been with the consistency i have experienced so far. Praise God for the reminder that I need to be thankful for those blessings down here. The sun is shining and its a beautiful day. I Pray that the Lord is blessing yours. Be blessed and be a blessing. -Erin-

Praise Report

Good Wednesday Morning Everyone! (if it is not Wednesday morning please forgive me the nights have been very short recently:)) I just wanted to let you know Yesterday The Plattners and I drove into MoBay to the immigration office to apply for our passport extensions and it was NO PROBLEM! She looked at our ticket confirmations (for April 1) looked at when we arrived (Oct. 20) stamped and signed it and in 2 min. we were in and out. It was nice that it was so easy and at the same time frustrating that I drove 3 hours there for a 2 min. visit to drive 3 hours home. We did drop off Kirk and Keri and boys at the MoBay campus where they will be living and working for the next 3 months to help out with work teams. I will continue to play hostess here at KP and the Hubers are in charge over at JDV. Most of the guests are leaving today after the board meetings all day on Monday and Tuesday, the service of praise that was Sunday night, and then last night we had our 6 hour $2500 (J's) dinner banquet dinner to finish off the big celebration of the 50th anniversary. Its been great to see and hear stories from the founding missionaries of C.C.C.D. and previous missionaries. I love hearing their stories they give me so much hope. Yes things has changed but one thing that has not and never will is that GOD that we serve. That's all I can think of for now. Have a great week. I miss and love you all. be blessed and be a blessing -Erin-