{"id":2839,"date":"2015-02-02T02:42:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:29","slug":"ups-and-more-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2839","title":{"rendered":"UPS AND … MORE UPS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have really let my updates pile up since the first of the year, so here are some quick ups and downs from January. \u00a0Actually, I sat down to record the “ups and downs” and found that the “downs” were mostly inconsequential things in light of so many “ups”, praise the Lord!UP: The first Saturday in January brought my first opportunity to witness a Haitian wedding. \u00a0My friend Joab, after ten years of engagement, finally married his best girl.<\/p>\n\n\n

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UP: Electric work is getting done around campus. \u00a0Many visiting teams have put a lot of effort into burying our electric lines, which will ultimately bring down our electric costs. \u00a0Also, some of these fine men were able to find the problem – a two inch segment of aluminum wire that had corroded away – causing power pulsations throughout our house for the previous week. \u00a0It also took care of a scary nuisance we had grown used to over the past year and a half: getting a nasty little shock just by grabbing the refrigerator door while barefoot!<\/p>\n\n\n

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UP: Our little Sarah turned a big EIGHT years old! \u00a0Her birthday was on a Friday and she was nearly hyperventilating for the entire week leading up to the big day. \u00a0The celebration included a new birthday outfit:<\/p>\n\n\n

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A party with friends from school and the mission:<\/p>\n\n\n

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A “Frozen” themed party with games like “Pin the Nose on Olaf”:<\/p>\n\n\n

Pizza:<\/p>\n\n\n

And chocolate cake:<\/p>\n\n\n

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And, of course, presents:<\/p>\n\n\n

UP: Our friend Storly returned for a few days to lead some further celebration of the recent radio project – a lot of work and expense and prayer that put our beloved Radio 4VEH back on the air at full strength, both AM and FM. \u00a0There was a special worship service of praise and testimony at the large church next to the mission.<\/p>\n\n\n

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And afterwards, our family was invited to tag along for lunch and we got to meet some great new friends. (Thanks for the hospitality, John and Karine!)<\/p>\n\n\n

UP: After lunch, Storly showed us where to find relatively cheap ice cream downtown Cap Haitien. \u00a0How did we not know about this before now??<\/p>\n\n\n

UP: The work Melissa and I are doing here in Vaudreuil was featured in the latest Outreach Magazine, a quarterly OMS publication. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

UP: Hannah is slowly regaining strength after suffering from a couple of weeks of pneumonia in her right lung. \u00a0She missed a lot of school but now she’s back.<\/p>\n\n\n

UP: Our good friend Lee came to visit for a few days. \u00a0He spent a day at the medical clinic and then a couple of unusually rainy days with us at Cowman School, hopping around from class to class and doing impromptu science lessons with the kids. \u00a0Here he is in my classroom:<\/p>\n\n\n

It was so good to have some unhurried time together around the table in the evenings.<\/p>\n\n\n

And on the last night, Lee shared his recipe for strawberry frosting – which we all proceeded to make ourselves sick on.<\/p>\n\n\n

On Friday morning, he got just a few minutes to recharge his Vitamin D before he headed back to complete an Indiana winter.<\/p>\n\n\n

SUPER UP: The purpose for Lee’s quick trip was to scout out the possibilities of bringing his family over their upcoming spring break. \u00a0Well, he must have like what he saw because he left Friday and the day after he got home his family reserved their flights for March! \u00a0We can’t wait to have the whole family come down!(Actually, there is one fairly major “down” that is getting under our skin a bit and we’d like to ask prayer for, but I’ll give that headache its own post.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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