{"id":5092,"date":"2011-07-27T03:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T03:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5092"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:57","slug":"interview-with-oms-and-more-haiti-pics-our-first-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5092","title":{"rendered":"Interview with OMS and More Haiti Pics – Our First Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tuesday, July 26.\u00a0 Melissa and I went to Greenwood today to interview with One Mission Society as we move forward with plans to enter the mission field fulltime in about a year.\u00a0 A panel of four met with Melissa for an hour and then separately with me for an hour.\u00a0 Now they confer and run their recommendations past the president.\u00a0 We won’t get official word for a week or two, but we felt it went well. Assuming they accept us, the next step is an orientation (which might take a bit of work to get into our schedules once school begins) and then we’ll be starting the fundraising. We’ve been back for a week already, and with all the packing and visiting, I haven’t made the time to get all my pictures on-line yet, so here are a few more from our first days in Haiti:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Classic sibling behavior in the Miami airport.\u00a0 Our flight was at 7:30, which meant we left\n\u00a0Twila and Gonzo's condo at 5:00 AM!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Dats did some reading and journaling on the flight.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Bud and Jane picked us up at the Cap Haitien airport in the van.\u00a0 The Princess was so exhausted she fell asleep on the armrest even as we bounced down the crazy Haitian road.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Without a TV or their Nintendos, the kids had to make their own fun – an incredibly refreshing development as far as Mommy and Daddy were concerned!\u00a0 Here, Ida claims to be impersonating Elvis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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We stayed in the Bundy house while the Bundys are back in the states.\u00a0 The Bundys have four kids too – our kids are looking forward to the day when they are our neighbors.\u00a0 Here the Drama Queen does some journaling before bed.\u00a0 Actually, there was very little Drama from the Queen during our entire two weeks in Haiti.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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The whole family as we head off to church.\u00a0 We went to the church right next to the compound.\u00a0 Our kids did great considering they sat through a 2.5 hour service conducted in a foreign language in\u00a0a hot sanctuary!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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We got to go to the Christophe Hotel after worship for lunch and swimming.\u00a0 In Haiti the Coke comes in bottles and is made with sugar cane.\u00a0 Good stuff!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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In the pool, Ida latched onto Tim Randolph – Tim brings a team to Haiti twice a year for medical work.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Throwing the kids in the pool.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Our kids spent a lot of time on the rope swing right out in front of the Bundy house.\u00a0 Our kids wouldn't be out on the lawn for too long before some neighborhood kids would join them.\u00a0 The Princess was\u00a0 especially popular with the Haitian kids – many would sneak a touch of her curls!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Lots of soccer was played – even by those who don't usually play a whole lot of soccer, like the Drama Queen …<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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…and Ida!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tuesday, July 26.\u00a0 Melissa and I went to Greenwood today to interview with One Mission Society as we move forward with plans to enter the mission field fulltime in about a year.\u00a0 A panel of four met with Melissa for an hour and then separately with me for an hour.\u00a0 Now they confer and run […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5101,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092\/revisions\/5101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}