Some Prayer Requests

It's nice to get to sit down and post this after I just took a shower and put in a load of laundry. Sometimes I feel like I have been holding my breath all day in the villages, from 9 to 4. Now that I'm home, I can finally sit down and exhale. It's not a bad thing; I get so focused on what I'm doing and being with kids though that once I'm here I realize how exhausted I am! It's a good thing we go to bed before 11 here.

The new group, a part of the Westlake Bible Church youth group, is here and falling into the swing of things. I personally love them because my whole ministry in Young Life is hanging out with high schoolers so I find them easy to get along with. They are doing a great job in the villages, too, and help around the house without complaining. What more could we ask for?


As we hit Wednesday, pray that we wouldn't not give into our exhaustion. Pray for energy and focus. For me, pray that I would not put the pressure on myself to say and do the right things and that God would use what Spanish I have to stretch across language barriers.

And finally, please be praying that we find someone who would be willing to help care for Dominic. This is the old, sick Haitian man that I wrote about last week. Each day that we visit him, it is like we had never been there before as he is usually naked again in his own filth. Dr. Santiago, who is here this week, believes that Dominic had a stroke about nine months ago, which makes sense. Since his family and neighbors don't seem to be caring for him, we are looking into finding somebody who we can pay to do so. It is a horrible thing to watch and I hope that we can figure something out.