Ask and ye shall receive

Now, if you ever wonder how we can pull off all that we do--getting volunteers, travel, amassing supplies, feeding hundreds, caring for thousands--let me give you the best example yet of what it means to live in FAITH.

You'll notice from the photo that Peter Desmarais is atop a ladder doing something with the top course of the cinder block wall. Dave, his dad, noticed some pretty severe cracks below one particular block and so he sent Peter up to free the block and push it out on the back side. Peter did all that but in the process something fell in and knocked over and broke the TV antenna we brought from Stamford.

The venerable handi-man Jackson from the School was noodling a fix with Dave and me. We were trying to decide if pvc cement would work. At which point Eric Heininger, one of our volunteers, stepped up and said, "I'm actually a plastics engineer and if you do this and that, it should work fine."


So, in this organization, if you need a plastics engineer or a surgeon or a nurse, don't fret, the right person will show up exactly when needed.