Mayonaise

This is a story about how we often don't know what an impact we make, or how far our influence goes. This is a story of Mayonaise, but it applies to our witness for Christ as well. Last week, I heard about Mayonaise.

Madam Claude is the wife of Met Claude the coordinator of HAFF's Project Healthy Family. She was also in the 3rd year class of the Godly Woman Christian homemaking class. When Mme Claude was in the Godly Woman class, I taught the women to make Mayonaise using a recipe modified from the More With Less cookbook's Cooked Mayonaise recipe. The people of the Plateau like mayonaise for salads and it is a luxury item for them. I thought the ladies would use it in their homes and maybe in their churches and it would save them some money.

But, in the Godly Woman class, we have always encouraged the ladies to pass on what they have learned. Mme Claude took that to heart and her husband's contacts with groups in other areas gave her the perfect way to share her knowledge.

Last week Mme Claude came to ask me to give her the mayonaise recipe again. She had lost it. The reason she wanted it now is that she had been asked to share the recipe with a group of 30 women in a World Vision supported group near Hinche! She had taught the women how to make mayonaise once already, but they didn't quite feel like they got it, so they asked her to come and repeat the training. While we were talking about the up coming class, she also mentioned that she had previously taught 30 women in the Community Health Evangelism (CHE) group in Mombin Crochu how to make the mayonaise. They had so taken to the recipe that the CHE group is making Mayonaise in larger quanities to sell!


Please pray for all our Godly Women and Young Leaders both past and present, that the things they learn in their classes would be a blessing to them and to the surrounding communities. Please pray also that the Gospel would spread at the same time and in the same way.

Teams and Veterinary Agents

From February 8 till March 15, there were only 6 days when HAFF did not have visitors. In that time, HAFF has hosted 5 teams and a few individuals or a total of 34 guests coming and going within days of each other. It has been rather hectic, but the teams have accomplished a great deal, learned much about HAFF, blessed the Haitians in the community and encouraged the Haitian and American staff at HAFF.

The last team to arrive was the Christian Veterinary Mission (CVM) Canada team. They hailed from multiple countries but were all connected in one way or another with the Atlantic Veterinary College at the University of Prince Edward Island. This is the team I spent the most time with.

My American colleagues and I translated everyday for them as they did a spay and neuter clinic (since there were local veterinary agents observing),

2 vaccination clinics

and 2 days of training local veterinary agents. I, of course was in my element -- having wanted to be a veterinarian at one point in my life.

Please pray for the veterinary agents who were trained this past week that they would remember and put into practice the things they learned and that they would continue to be blessed by the time with the folks from Canada and with each other.

Vet Agents at Eye Clinic

This morning Becky and I got to the Eye Clinc and found that 4 of the 6 people signed up for today were veterinary agents from the seminars last week! They came almost all at once, were relatively easy to fit with glasses and had a grand old time visiting with each other and with us! The 5th of the 6 people signed up was one of the agent's neighbor and the 6th person didn't come. But we saw 2 walk-ins, since we had the time. So, today we saw 2 people from LaVictoire (90 minute walk), 2 people from Savanette (2 hours by bicycle), one person from Pignon (90 minute walk), one person from Grand Latanier (45 to 1 hour minute walk) and one person from Bohoc. Thankfully we were able to help everyone except the one lady walk-in, who came for medicine we did not have.