JoHannah's Journal

Saturday, March 17, 2012

One Amazing Team from Campus Crusade for Christ, UF Mar. 5-7, 2012

To my faithful bloggers! HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!! A Great Missionary to Ireland! Hope you have a good one!!

And to those who have birthdays today; HAPPY BIRTHDAY! YOURS TRULY, LOVE, JOHANNAH

These are pictures from our amazing team last week!!!

Tyler painting our roof.

Chris, Kerstin and KellyAnne painting another part of our roof!

Team Leader Chris with some Great painters on the roof!

Carisa, Zoe & Jeremy painting on the roof too!!

Our beautiful, finished roof!

Anthony, Zoe and Julia taking a break
after working in the hot, hot sun on the roof!

Carisa, Jessica, Ashley, Kelly, Megan and Amy, painting the garage!

Amazing workers!

Working on painting the outside of the house!

Beautiful job guys!

Some awesome workers!

Anthony, Jessica and Ashley painted the inside of this area,
except the rough wall, on right!

Pat, Julia and Zoe working on trim!

Zoe and Tyler painting one of the garage gate doors!

Chris and I painting the other door!

Amy, Carly, Carisa, and I working on the side of the house!

Carisa and I!!

Amy and Andrew painting the ceiling of the
outside roof over the walkway!

Anthony, me, KellyAnne , and Kerstin working on the trim of the roof!

Megan, Carisa and Chris working on the back of the house!

More coming to help finish the back side of the house!

Working hard!!

Half of our amazing team from Campus Crusade for Christ, UF!!

Andrew, Eric and Tyler working on the frame for
our sidewalk so that they can pour the cement!!

Getting rock and sand to mix cement!

A view from the roof (where I was working)
part of the sidewalk ready to be poured!

Andrew, Conner, and Eric mixing cement!

Eric trolling, Andrew and Tyler mixing!

Our amazing "Crete Crew"!! Great Job Ya'll!!

Eric and Tyler trolling the last section!

Doing touch ups!

Eric was the leader of the "Crete Crew"!
Here he is with his beautiful Workmanship!
Thanks, Eric!!

Putting their names in the cement; so that we won't forget them!

All the names written in concrete!

Kelly playing with Jason and Maurice!!

Carly, Kelly, and Kerstin playing with Maurice!

Julia, Kelly, and Zoe loving on Jason!

Ashley loving on Caleb!

Andrew, Tyler and Anthony made a soccer goal out of PVC
pipe for one of the other orphanages that they were helping, too!

Megan, Jessica, KellyAnne, Kerstin, Kelly, Zoe, Carisa & Julia!

Patrick, Conner, Eric and Andrew singing
"When Peace like a River"!

Conner and Kelly possing for me!lol

Kerstin, KellyAnne, Chris, Jessica and Amy
With some of the diapers and other things that the team blessed us with!!
Thanks ya'll so much!!!

Preparing to leave one day; hey rented a tap-tap!!

Making Friends, Living Dreams. & Creating Memories!
WHAT AN INCRETIBLE CREW!! Y'ALL WERE SUCH A BLESSING!!

Our Newly painted "mansion"!!

Friday, March 9, 2012

A Mountain Top Adventure!!

             It was about 5:00 - 5:30am. The sun had not yet risen. I decided to get up, even though Dad’s summoning call had not yet come. I needed to help mom get breakfast ready for the team. We (all but mom and the three SCH little boys) were taking the team to a very small Baptist Church about ten minutes from our house and we needed to leave by 9:00. After breakfast (which was served at 8:00) we were ready to leave. So we loaded up everyone in the back of our truck, and headed out.
              Church went well. It was loud and crazy; typical for a Haitian church, but it was good. At ten after 11:00 church ended. We returned home to get some snacks, and water before heading up the mountain. Dad wanted to show the team around Haiti a little bit, and this was the only day. So, off we went up Goat Mt. The team, Jeremy and Josh in the back, and Dad and I in the front.
               We were more than half way up the mountain, and Dad said to me, “ I’ve lost the clutch again, I have no clutch, and I hardly have any tools with me!” So we stopped the truck, and Dad told the team what the problem was. Mr. Jim Elliott (one of the men on the team) was a mechanic; so he got out and looked underneath the truck. While he was doing that Mr. Peters led the rest of the team in prayer, and asked the Lord to help him and Dad to be able to fix the truck so we could get home.
                After seeing that there was nothing that he could do, Mr. Elliott said. “ Well, let’s have everyone get out and see if us guys can get this thing turned around. If we can get it turned around I think we can make it back home.”
                So here we were, all 13 of us way up on the mountain, in what seemed to be a hopeless case. I have said it before, and I’ll say it again. With GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE! We serve the GOD of the IMPOSSIBLE! All the guys worked together, and were able to turn the truck around. Thankfully there was no traffic until they got the truck turned around. PTL!
               On the way down, I rode in the back with the team. Mr. Elliott drove and Dad rode in the front with him. So all of us girls got in the back, and the guys pushed it to get it started, and then jumped in. Then we drove, or more coasted, down the mountain. When we neared the bottom Mr. Elliot could feel the clutch coming back!! PTL! And so we made it home!

                 For the devotional the following day Mr. Elliot read from Matthew 28:16-20
“ Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.”
                Then he talked about how God had brought us off the mountain yesterday, about how he didn’t know until later that afternoon when his wife told him, that the team had prayed that he and Dad would be able to fix the truck. How that even on an Island far from home, God is with us, and He answers prayer!

                 So that is just one of our Haiti adventures! Yes, life is an adventure, but God is good!!
So come join the Schmidt family for a week or so, and live one of Haiti’s wild, crazy, thrilling, but most of all life changing adventures!!
                 Your ever adventurous writer!
                                                                      JoHannah Elizabeth Schmidt