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Reinhard News: Oct. 20, 2008
I thought I’d better write a short note about this and try to send a couple of pictures along with it since . . .
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Reinhard News: 10/5/08
We arrived back in Haiti almost 1 month ago today. It is amazing how time flies. We enjoyed our furlough time, but it was good to get back settled in to “home”. Unfortunately . . . (click here for the complete text)
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Christmas Letter 2007 - click here
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Reinhard News:
Oct. 5, 2007
We enjoyed a visit with a group from Loving Shepherd Ministry. We were privileged to go with them up to a village for the dedication ceremony for a group home for 12 boys who had no one able to take care of them. It was a busy week for them as they continue to look for sites for future homes, if God wills, but we pray that His will be done with their ministry in Haiti.
We have about 1 month until the work team season starts. We hope we will have everything ready by then. We are looking forward to the fellowship that comes with the groups and the blessing it is to see the roofs go on. Many of these buildings have been waiting a long time for a roof, so there is much excitement when it finally happens. If you would like to be a part of this excitement and fellowship, let us know and we would be glad to try to connect you with a team leader who can give you the information you need.
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July 15, 2007
Not too much happening right now as far as work teams or groups coming because it is summer time, but we are looking forward to seeing Bro. Ed Schwartz and his son, Rick, and then a little later Bro. Tom Hitz and his daughter, Kristen and Bro Rich Bertschi and his daughter, Leah, are planning to come down for a short visit. This is usually the time of year when we will be back in the states so we will not normally be here for this down time. It is a good time, though, for us to concentrate on language study and it seems there is always something to do.
There is a sea container that arrived in Port-au-Prince and I guess the usual chain of events is that after it clears customs it is trucked straight out here and then unloaded. Usually they go over the paper work in Port, but they do not actually look at the stuff. This time, for some reason, Jan got a call that the sea container had to be completely unloaded and inspected in Port by the officials there before they were going to allow it to come out here. This meant that someone from here had to go to Port and either take help with them or hire men there to unload and then guard the stuff so it could be inspected. So, Jan, his son Mark, Tim and 8 Haitians from here all got up early Friday morning and left for Port by 4:15 A.M. With much prayer, they arrived there and things went well. They didn’t end up having to unload the whole thing, which was super because it had a bunch of sheets of tin on it and a big load of incinerator bricks, and it seemed the inspectors were satisfied. At about 2:30 P.M., Tim called and said they were on their way home and the container should arrive sometime that night and then they would unload Saturday morning. Well it didn’t end up happening quite that way. The word is that the truck broke down, but they got it fixed and it should arrive Sunday, so they could unload early Monday morning. Well it is Sunday night and still no container. We’ll have to see what the story is this time.
Tuesday 7-17-07
The container did arrive right before lunch Monday, so a group of men that were hired by Jan got together and started unloading right after lunch. Each box has a number on it and a department or ministry. These are called out as the box is being unloaded and Tess, Alisha, and Sarah all had sheets with the numbers on and checked them off as they went. This is a big job and the men that were hired, along with Jan, Tim, some of the other missionaries, and even Ed Schwartz and his son, Rick, (who just got in that afternoon), worked for quite a few hours unloading and sorting boxes and then stacking tin in the storage container here and unloading the incinerator bricks and loading them on trailers. Anyway, it is a blessing to be able to have a way to get so many supplies to many different groups. May God bless all the efforts of each one that help make it happen.
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June 8, 2007
This week we had an AWA, (Apostolic Water Aid), well drilling team of 5 men from Tremont and 1 from Princeville and then also a FRW, (Francesville, Remington, Wolcott) trade school team of 3 men. Both of these teams come a few times a year and they are pretty independent as far as Tim's time is concerned. Jan Gutwein is in charge of these areas down here and he did go out with the FRW team and stayed busy with them. The AWA team left this morning, (Friday) and the FRW team is leaving tomorrow. We did get to enjoy some evenings of fellowship with the AWA team and went to church with them on Sunday morning to a local church here and then had a singing service together with the Gutweins on Sunday evening. Drilling fresh water wells is a tremendous help to the Haitian people. Ron & Linnea Shick, (the couple who are retiring), are leaving on Tuesday, June 12 so there is a lot for us to try to digest about the job that needs to be done here and we are going to miss them and their insight in different situations. There is a farewell picnic planned for them with the MEBLH organization on Saturday and they are expecting about 55 people there. We will sure be sad to see them go, but we do appreciate their work here during the last 12 years and we know the Haitian people do, too. We also have 2 ladies from Illinois here on a short visit for the weekend. Heidi Knobloch from Morton and Margie Heinz from Champaign arrived in Cayes today and are staying until Sunday. I think they then plan to go the Puit Sales area and then work their way to Port. It's always good to see familiar faces.
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Saturday, May 26, 2007
Well we arrived safely, Tuesday May 22, with all of our luggage, (12 suitcases or duffel bags at all almost 50 lbs except 2 that we couldn't fit anymore in), in Port-au-Prince airport and whipped right through customs. We were picked up by Nadar, a taxi driver who usually meets us, and taken to the small airport along with the Gutwein family who flew in to Port with us. We all flew in a 14 seater plane and arrived early in Les Cayes. We were picked up by Ron Shick and Tom Ferris, who is our new neighbor. We only had 2 out of our 12 bags, but they sent them out in the next plane and Ron went back for them later. They are still doing quite a lot of construction on the house we are living in so things have been pretty chaotic, but I am glad it is all getting done now instead of after we are settled in. All of the windows are being replaced so there is lots of construction dust and banging around, but the mosquitoes have not been very bad, so going without some of the windows each night has not been to big of a deal.
Tuesday, May 29
Our Internet service is finally back on. There was some problem with the whole compound for a little while, but for us it was not working for about 3-4 days. Hopefully it will be more reliable. There is a work team here this week led by Jon Zeller and their primary focus is maintenance for the compound of which we have been a major recipient. There have been men working on all sorts of things here. We have one working on building shelves in the pantry, bathroom, laundry room, and closets along with replacing some termite eaten wood by the attic access, we have had one working on some miscellaneous plumbing situations, and a couple of them changing out our inverter and putting up some fans and in general figuring out and fixing the wiring mess here. This has been a tremendous load taken off of Tim's shoulders and will give him such a head start to being done here and getting on to other things. Throughout the week there has also been some work getting done at other places on the compound and I know the other missionaries are very grateful, too. Thanks to the 6 men who are here and thanks to those of you back home who are sharing them.
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5-14-07
Tim is in Haiti now getting our house ready that we will be living in.
There was quite a lot of termite damage and he is working on fixing it
up. Two others are there helping him, Robert Getz from Peoria, and our
nephew, Jesse Snodgrass from Iowa City. A big thanks to both of them for
their willingness to go. They will be returning to the States on Friday
and then we will have the weekend here in Peoria together and then we all
head to the airport at about noon on Monday, May 21. The kids are
getting excited, but there are also some goodbyes happening so there are
mixed emotions.
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