http://www.barnabastask.org The Toughest assignment you'll ever love! Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:23:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_1481" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Jim Westerfield (right) taught businessmen in Cien Fuegos."][/caption] Hope you are doing well?   Traveling to the DR for a year,  every month,  (praying, connecting and plowing) has been quite a journey.  As I reflected on this past year I recently looked north toward a mountain range ... http://www.barnabastask.org/2010/07/1479/ [caption id="attachment_1471" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="We can transform dirty water to awesome drinking water"][/caption] Nobel Peace Prize writer Garcia Marquez wrote in detail about the plight of the poor in Central and South America. He describes poor people as waiting for a letter that would never come, sitting in the dark ... http://www.barnabastask.org/2010/07/waiting-for-a-distant-hope-while-in-the-dark-clean-water/ The following is a short clip from Haiti. The experience left a mark on me. I changed. I go to the Dominican Republic (DR) on Monday, full time. I will be in Haiti for a Concert of Hope on July 9. The island of Haiti and ... http://www.barnabastask.org/2010/06/dont-forget-haiti/ There is a real need today to know what you are to do.  I am talking about the practical, the every day kind of decision.  I am also talking about the big ones.  University?  Career?  Marriage?  Employment?  Quitting?  Staying?  Relationships?  What is right?  Schedule? People constantly ask me about decisions ... http://www.barnabastask.org/2010/06/more-time-for-god/ Support Tom and Nancy. There, I said it! Up to this point I have never used our names in asking for financial support.  Barnabas Task has been promoted.  Who wants to promote self?  We sure don't!  At the same time, without promoting what we do there is no way ... http://www.barnabastask.org/2010/05/support-tom-and-nancy/ So we finished another day of a strong medical clinic. (yesterday) The team worked again in the type of heat that zaps you.  Several are sick as I write this. [caption id="attachment_1386" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="She brought help for her mom"][/caption] Four of the Purdue students are sick as well. A young girl walked ... http://www.barnabastask.org/2010/05/the-little-girl-was-a-messenger/ [caption id="attachment_1358" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Clinic in rural area"][/caption] We went to Gressier yesterday.  The heat was a searing 98 degrees.  Unlike the beautiful Arizona dessert heat without [caption id="attachment_1359" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Purdue students were an awesome help"][/caption] humidity, we felt the humidity and therefore drank lots of water.  One of the Purdue students ... http://www.barnabastask.org/2010/05/the-was-a-searing-98-degrees/ [caption id="attachment_1353" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Mercy rewrote the life of this six-month old baby"][/caption] We have been in Port Au Prince for three days now.  We have served in a church with a medical clinic.   We feel were placed there because of divine presence that "marked the spot."  We worked with ... http://www.barnabastask.org/2010/05/it-will-be-a-great-day-in-gressier/ [caption id="attachment_1340" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Me and the Butler Bulldog"][/caption] I was sitting by myself in Port Au Prince (PAP) while it was pouring rain outside looking at a photo that was taken of me while at Jessi’s graduation.  It was one grand and proud affair.  Yeah, that is ... http://www.barnabastask.org/2010/05/i-was-sitting-by-myself-while-it-was-pouring-rain-outside/ [caption id="attachment_1313" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Franklin is a Red Sox fan!"][/caption] Franklin is a Red Sox fan.  He knows what is happening every day with his team!  He wears Red Sox shirts, has a Red Sox hat and I call him, "Big Papi," named after Dominican baseball player David Ortiz.  By the ... http://www.barnabastask.org/2010/05/haiti-bible-study/