July 2013 prayer & needs

Praise

• God’s faithfulness in guiding our ministry transition.
• Apparent project - great to see a successful sustainability model of orphan care here!
• We are almost finished with the paperwork for our Permis (residency cards).
• Kreyol is coming along...
• We’ve been able to create some margin & organization with a regular schedule.
• Doors are opening for a maternity center & preventative health ministry.
• Our neighbor, Jean has asked Ted to help him learn English through Bible study.

Prayer

• Stamina through the hotter summer months.
• Against spiritual warfare which is predominant here!
• Balance of work, family and fun in our busy days.
• Find ourselves struggling with household duties & needing outside help
• Basic electricity is still a complex issue that consumes time & effort
• Ted will be meeting with our landlord to discuss next year’s lease.
• Continued language learning...the ability to converse at a heart level.
• God’s leading & guidance in Ted’s business development research.
• Clear direction & provision regarding maternity/health center.
• All of our kids as they seek direction in their schooling & futures.

Needs

• Financial Support (monthly or one time gifts):  

Please contact us (tenmilliontoes@gmail.com) with any monthly support start up or changes, so that we can notify Apparent Project how to direct your funds. For one time giving or checks, place “Barlow family” in the comments area.

• Household Items:

Solar panels (6 - 100Wh or greater)

Plastic pipe for rainwater catchment system

Chest freezer & fridge conversion kit

Larger scale, diesel, “quiet” generator

• Medical Supplies:

Fetal heart doppler

Portable Ultrasound

Maternity meds (pitocin, methergine, cytotec...)

• Volunteers:

Team for household projects & painting

Medical personnel: midwife, OB/GYN, RN with maternity or peds experience

Agricultural specialist/Consultant

Solar Power consultant

Encouragement & enrichment visitors

AP jewelry or ornament party hosts

Project fundraiser coordinator

Project interns

Artisans to teach Haitian workers new skills

Grant writers

Those are some of our personal requests, see ALL the ways you can help out here:

September - opportunities to pray & minister

It's hard to believe that SEPTEMBER is here already. Wow. The summer was pretty busy, but now it seems like it went by at warp speed!!

Here is this month's ministry team update:

PRAISE

• Rebecca's short term contract is going great. She LOVES the hospital, has been very welcomed there & has enjoyed refreshing her hands on maternity skills. BONUS:Kreyol speaking co-workers!

• We are ALSO extremely grateful to the Keyser family for hosting her in their home. 

• A few weeks ago, we were able to get an affordable car that seats NINE people (without squishing!) so everyone will be able to get to our various work sites at the same time. No one has to stay behind anymore! It also is supposed to get the same gas mileage as our CRV & it uses diesel, which is much cheaper here.

• We weathered Isaac well. Very little damage & no flooding to either our home or the guest house. All of the staff is fine. A HUGE blessing.

• More helpers!! Sandrea & Callie our new school teacher & WO intern, both arrived safely & are settling in.

PRAYER

• Continue to pray for Rebecca as she travels back & forth to FL every other week. 

• Preparations for a Together 4 Adoption conference for our Haitian partners as well as Safe Birth training for 60 women across our 12 communities are underway. They are both scheduled for late October.

• Sandrea is beginning school with Emma this month. 

• Emma to be diligent in her FINAL year!!

• Callie as she brings insight and creativity and seeks God's guidance to unfold the details of her work here.

• Ted needs some extra prayer for rest!! He has been going at a strong pace all summer-long.

• Ask for God's provision of a new affordable & "just right" home for us here. We love our current little house, but need to be closer to the guest house, have more room for parking behind the wall & a small patch of yard for Cosi. We know that He has the perfect place waiting for us nearby!

• Lift us up regularly for God's constant guidance in our work here. There are many facets, many opportunities & many obstacles that we face from day to day.

Resources

• We are at 100% funding through Dec 2012 - thanks to our current supporters, recent special gifts and God's additional provision via Rebecca's contract. The new (to us) car & needed repairs, as well as our annual rent will be covered by the time it is due in November!!! 

• 2013 - monthly support pledges are roughly at 85%. 

• We would also like to begin the adoption process in 2013. Begin to pray now about partnering with us to give a couple of little ones a forever home. While living here does reduce a few costs, with the new adoption laws going into affect this month, we will be required to use a US agency, which raises them significantly above our initial anticipation.