Wisconsin-Illinois Team

Monday 23 October, Dr Jeff Nelson from Elmhurst, Illinois and Lois Baker and Dr Eric Anderson of Monroe, Wisconsin arrived. Dr Eric has been to HAFF several times and was the leader of the team including Dr Jeff, his brother-in-law and Lois a retired physical therapist. 

Class Bon Fanm Tout Bon Day 3

Tuesday, while Greg took the doctors visiting home bound people in the Bohoc LaJeune area, Lois and I worked with the Bon Fanm class. We tried to teach tatting.

It was difficult to get the ideas across. We'll keep working at it till we get it!

In the afternoon, we taught knitting.

That went much more easily and some of the ladies got quite far with their mini scarf! 

Wednesday morning we were all in the HAFF medical clinic seeing sick people.

We saw a woman who had been bitten by a dog,

a young man with a very high fever and lots of high blood pressure.

We even showed Mme Telius and Mme Emmanuel how to do a microscopic test for malaria! 

Thursday morning we vaccinated 155 of the about 250 students at the school.

The Diptheria/Tetanus vaccine was the gift of the Metro Foundation through Dr Jeff.

Greg, Dr Jerry and I and our permanent and temporary clinic staff all got the vaccination and it was barely a prick.

The students had the full range of reactions from calm and cool to various degrees of distress!  

 

Thursday afternoon, the doctors saw some more patients and then went to Riske (about an hour's drive south) and saw 50 more people! Lois and I finished teaching the Bon Jen Fanm class to knit.

Friday, 27 October, yesterday, all the Americans plus 3 Haitians went to Coupeal to do a clinic in a church. With Drs Eric and Jeff and Mme Telius all seeing people, we saw about 81 people in 5 hours. There was one very sick girl -- possibly meningitis -- who rode back with us to the clinic near us in LaJeune to be under the Haitian doctor's care there. She is doing much better today. 

First Day of Klas Bon Fanm Tout Bon

Here are the ladies of the Klas Bon Fanm Tout Bon -- the Godly Woman class -- for 2006-2007! Yesterday, 10 October 2006, was their first day of class for the year. Left to right in front are J'Inuore, Josianie, Silfira, Ronise and Guerline. Left to right in the second row are Guylene, Lucianie, Benitha, Nelie and Linoise. The back row, left to right is Milienne, Nemie, Ellena, Mona and Almide. See the posts from Monday to get more information about each lady.


These photos were taken late in the morning during one of the studies. Please keep these women in prayer this year, as they learn about how to have a home set apart for the Lord.

I lead the ladies in a study of Proverbs 31:10-31, the basis for the class.
Then Mme Desius, Mme Telius, Mme Bill, Mme Claude and Mme Smith along with Mme Louis Jean and Mme Niclaude (not in the photo) participated with the ladies in a round table discussion. The guests told about women in their own lives who showed the Proverbs 31 characteristics.
Then, Mme Smith taught the ladies how to make tissue paper garlands and flowers.
 

Klas Bon Fanm Tout Bon -- The Godly Woman Class

Last Tuesday afternoon, 3 October 2006, Mme Gesson and I gave an entrance exam for the ladies would want to be part of the Proverbs 31 based Godly Woman Class -- Klas Bon Fanm Tout Bon. Here are the women taking their exam. The next day 16 of our BTI students took the test for the version of the class for the young women.

The first meeting of the adult class is tomorrow, 10 October. The young women meet Wednesday and Thursday, the 11th and 12. We will start the year out with a study and disscussion of the Proverbs 31 Woman and then spend the rest of the year learning how to put that into practice. Please keep these women in your prayers this year as they learn skills and how to apply Scripture so they can have a home set apart for the Lord. Pray for Mme Gesson, Barb Van Schoyck, myself and the other teachers as we share our hearts with these ladies. 

Here is Mme Gesson (walking) proctoring the Klas Bon Fanm Tout Bon entrance exam.

From the 20 women who took the test, we chose 15 women for the class. Lets meet the ladies who will be in the class this year.
Almide Evariste is from Pignon. Pignon is our closest "big town" just north of HAFF on National Route 3.
Benitha Pierre is from Port-au-Ciel (meaning Door of Heaven). Port-au-Ciel is east of Pignon across the Bouyaha River. Benitha says it takes her 2 hours to come to HAFF.
Ellena Docteur is from LaJeune, the next rural area north of Bohoc.