Eugene & Kara Waldner Family

Hello Friends and Family!  This is our little spot in the web world where we plan to make posts while we are in Haiti.  We are excited about our time but also very conscious of our need for the Lord to walk with us through this special time as a family!  

I'll give you a quick over view of what we plan on doing in the next couple months....

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The picture below shows the current group of missionaries at the Ailegue mission where we will be serving.  The couple with the baby- Donovan and Thea Hostetler are coming home due to some complications with her pregnancy.  Their baby that is due within a month or so is breech and seems to be very comfortable in that position.  Since they can't get it to turn they decided to be safe and come home to the States to deliver.  We will be a married couple there in their place as a support to the young people serving in the Clinic or as compound personnel.  Donovon's and one young lady are already gone and one more young lady I believe will be leaving within the month.  Another young man will be coming while we are in Haiti as well.  

We will be sharing our home with 2-3 young men.  The girls live in the other house on the compound.  We share all of our meals.  One night a week we have to ourselves as a family.  On the weekends the group either goes up to Rhonda Reinfords or Don Weaver.  Each morning we have devotions as a group and then everyone scatters to their various responsibilities.  It should be a very interesting time.  I'm sure there will be stretching moments as we go from our little family of 5 to 15 ;-) .  We grew up fast!

 We do have a few specific prayer requests for those of you who would like to support us in this way.

1.  Pray that we would not neglect our personal time with the Lord in the busyness of being with so many people and activity.  We know from experience that to neglect our Lord is to plan to fail.  We feel keenly our need for the Spirit of God to guide us in everyday life here in the States and we know that Haiti will just increase our need for Him.

2. Pray for our marriage that it would remain close and vibrant and would not be stressed by the constant interaction with others.  We will need to carve out alone time strategically.
  

 3. Pray for unity as a family and security for our children as we share our home, meals and life with about 10 young people.  We want our children to have very special memories of the friendships they build there and also keep heart strings tied with us.

 4. Pray that we would be a real blessing to the young people serving there at Ailegue.  We want to do what we can to make it easy for them to fulfill their roles of clinic work and compound upkeep and errands.

5. Pray for our interaction with the Haitian people that it would be with humility and love. Kara already has a pretty good handle on the Creole language since she lived there a year before she got married.  This really helps with good relationships with the people.  We would love for Eugene and the children to start to get a grasp of Creole too.

Stitching a finger on my beloved...We have some very special memories of Haiti...
some more traumatic than others...