Hello Summit family!We have been praying for the church all this week and we are turning our commiment card in via email from Haiti! If someone could please write our names on a brick for the wall - with WATERisLIFE words - that would be awesome.
We are accomplising so much while we are here - and have plenty of good nourishment to keep us going thanks to your generous giving. We purchased our food with all of your donations! Thank you Summit!
Between missionary kidnappings, presidential election tensions, the cholera outbreak (with many infected and dying), Hurricane Tomas, our student diagnosed with TB and HIV, WATERisLIFE village visits with riotous people and many challenges that arise in Haiti on a daily basis - we have have had quite a bit to contend with.
But the joy of our work and time as a family to serve is a Gift we could never have expected.
We know that God has us here at this time for His purpose. We have been able to use the ever so needed water filters and hygiene and cholera education clinics as tools to reach so many with His word.
It would have been much easier to find many reasons not to listen to God's calling and come to Haiti... we are sure glad we we didn't say "But Lord, we we can't go because..." We are glad we said yes.
We are blessed to be here and truly blessed to have our Summit family praying. Picabo and Olivia have done amazing and are fantastic ambassadors for WATERisLIFE and our Lord.
As Pastor Nate knows first hand - a little body rash, diarrhea, spiders, rats, voodoo, flooding, torential rains with deep mud, head colds, bleaching everything, and exhaustion - it's hard work, but we love it! As Mark says, now that we have experienced this, there is nothing we can't do!
Miss you all - see you in December.
The Bender Family
MB, KB, PB, OB and Cabo!
Welcome back home, Benders!
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