Week 5 - praise & prayer requests:

- Praise! We had our first personal visitors this past week - a pastor from our FL church connection - it was an absolutely blessed time!

- Praise! We were able to gather our staff together at the guest house for an appreciation/thanksgiving dinner, which was well received & a good time of fellowship.

- Ron mentioned that he thinks we may be able to move into our house this week. we are trying not to get our hopes up, but would love that to be true!

- In the meantime we will be working to get the house ready this week. Cleaning & some painting, shopping for a few pieces of furniture. Pray for blessed deals on the furniture & appliances - trying to stay at or below budget means that we have to haggle for Haitian prices on the streets, where sometimes we get charged (a LOT) more bc we are American.

- We are meeting with a couple of the Haitian church partners this week pray that our time will be profitable & meaningful as we develop stronger long-term relationships and gather information.

- Tynan as he goes to Pastor Abner's church this week to see about teaching English to the students there. That he will be comfortable in this new leadership role & enjoy it immeasurably!

- Lift up 2 children that we met at the orphanage that our friends help support last week (non- World Orphans related). They both have HIV & the orphanage wants to move them because it is hard to keep up precautions there. So far no one knows of a better place for them to go. Pray for wisdom as we try to research it further and assist in finding a good location, or for God's direction otherwise.

- Also please lift up anther non-WO pastor that has an orphanage outside of the city. We visited a couple of days ago for our second time & in the weeks between he had received a baby dropped off by his 18 yo mom. We are trying to see if there is a desire & means to put them back together and support them as a family unit. Pray for wisdom for the pastor & provision. Even the orphanage didn't have any more formula for him, so was making a pasty baby food to feed him. We would like wisdom also as to how most effectively & non-dependency oriented we can assist.

- Our hearts are quickly filling with the need that we find here on every turn. The sheer number of orphans is more real to us each day & can be overwhelming.