A Mountain Top Adventure!!

              It was about 5:00 - 5:30am. The sun had not yet risen. I decided to get up, even though Dad’s summoning call had not yet come. I needed to help mom get breakfast ready for the team. We (all but mom and the three SCH little boys) were taking the team to a very small Baptist Church about ten minutes from our house and we needed to leave by 9:00. After breakfast (which was served at 8:00) we were ready to leave. So we loaded up everyone in the back of our truck, and headed out.
              Church went well. It was loud and crazy; typical for a Haitian church, but it was good. At ten after 11:00 church ended. We returned home to get some snacks, and water before heading up the mountain. Dad wanted to show the team around Haiti a little bit, and this was the only day. So, off we went up Goat Mt. The team, Jeremy and Josh in the back, and Dad and I in the front.
               We were more than half way up the mountain, and Dad said to me, “ I’ve lost the clutch again, I have no clutch, and I hardly have any tools with me!” So we stopped the truck, and Dad told the team what the problem was. Mr. Jim Elliott (one of the men on the team) was a mechanic; so he got out and looked underneath the truck. While he was doing that Mr. Peters led the rest of the team in prayer, and asked the Lord to help him and Dad to be able to fix the truck so we could get home.
                After seeing that there was nothing that he could do, Mr. Elliott said. “ Well, let’s have everyone get out and see if us guys can get this thing turned around. If we can get it turned around I think we can make it back home.”
                So here we were, all 13 of us way up on the mountain, in what seemed to be a hopeless case. I have said it before, and I’ll say it again. With GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE! We serve the GOD of the IMPOSSIBLE! All the guys worked together, and were able to turn the truck around. Thankfully there was no traffic until they got the truck turned around. PTL!
               On the way down, I rode in the back with the team. Mr. Elliott drove and Dad rode in the front with him. So all of us girls got in the back, and the guys pushed it to get it started, and then jumped in. Then we drove, or more coasted, down the mountain. When we neared the bottom Mr. Elliot could feel the clutch coming back!! PTL! And so we made it home!

　

                 For the devotional the following day Mr. Elliot read from Matthew 28:16-20
“ Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.”
                Then he talked about how God had brought us off the mountain yesterday, about how he didn’t know until later that afternoon when his wife told him, that the team had prayed that he and Dad would be able to fix the truck. How that even on an Island far from home, God is with us, and He answers prayer!
                 
                 So that is just one of our Haiti adventures! Yes, life is an adventure, but God is good!!
So come join the Schmidt family for a week or so, and live one of Haiti’s wild, crazy, thrilling, but most of all life changing adventures!!
                 Your ever adventurous writer!
                                                                      JoHannah Elizabeth Schmidt

Our Great Team from Orange Heights! Feb. 25 - March 3, 2012

Mr. & Mrs. Elliott washing dishes the first night.
They washed them for us almost the whole time:-)

The Crew ready for church!

Praying in church.

Car trouble on the mountain... the team praying that the
truck will be fixed!

Mr. Jim, Mr. Dan & Dad investigating the problem.

Turning the truck around on a mountain road!

Chillin' after a lot of hard work!

Last coat of paint in the childrens room!

Dad working on electrical problems,
Mr. Kim & Mr. Dan making screens! Yeah!!!

Miss Donna & Miss Toni helping feed the children lunch!

Josh & Mr. Wayne making supports for our dining room table.

Mr. Wayne adding a shelf to a table that he made for us.

Mr. Jim working on the electrical.

Miss Judy, Miss Donna & me:
The kitchen painters!

Miss Myriam helping wash laundry!

Building a door!

Finishing hanging and closing in the door.

Miss Genene loving on one of the children from another orphanage :-)

Screen doors!! No more mosquitoes, almost :-)



Putting in door knobs for the
bedrooms!



Miss Judy painting the dining room.

Miss Toni, Miss Donna & Mr. Jim
painting the team dinning room!

Playing with the children!:-)

Teaching Dieulene and Marilene exercises for the children!

More painting of the dinning room!

Painting the children's room!

Jeremy working in the Suburban.

Miss Donna loving on the children at Pierre Payen!

Our amazing team!

Mr. Jim & Jeremy working hard to get the Suburban up and running!

Who needs a starter when you have 6 guys to push for you?!lol

Dad putting the new starter in! PTL!!!





















 


 






















Our New Home!!

 Over the last couple of weeks we have been working on getting our vehicles up and running, our rental house painted and water hooked up. Praise the Lord, Daddy got water running yesterday and we have city power much of the day, which was a nice surprise!

                       Our "fix-everything" Dad!!!

Looking into the living/dinning room and through to the kitchen.

Our smallest room.

Dad and Mom's bedrooom before it was painted.

Looking at the front of the house from the gate.

We have two Peacocks that jump over a 10' high wall
to come into our yard every morning and sometimes
in the afternoon; if it is quiet enough!
I named them Henry (pictured) and Alfred!

This is what Henry will do if you get too close to him. 
This is the first time I've ever seen a Peacock put up his tail like this!
It was AMAZING!!

Henry and Alfred hanging out on the wall!!

      Dad starting to paint the Master bedroom!

Jeremy & I working on the trim in the Master bedrooom,
while Dad finishes up the walls. Looks great!! Oui?

Jeremy washing the walls
in one of the bedrooms!

Josh sweeping out the garage/school room!

Fun family fotos!!

I know it's been some time since I last posted and since we are in Haiti and won't be back in the USA
for a while I decided to post the most current pictures first, and work backwards!!

The newly weds!! Matthew & Frances :-)

Isaiah, Renae, & Ephraim having fun at
Grandma's!

One of my cute little nephews! Ephraim :-)

Savannah is getting so big! She is such a sweetie!!

Grandma with her newest grandson,
Samuel Jackson!

Renae loves her little cousin Samuel :-)

Christian will make such a good daddy someday :-)
Sweet cousins!

Caleb, Suzanna and Felicity; loving cousins!!!

Caleb is so photogenic! You could have a camera
on him all day and you would get so many different poses!!

Savanna loves Aunt Kim!!

Caleb, Joseph & Isaiah singing;  practicing for church!!

I love this picture of Jeremy and Suzanna!

My sweet neice Suzanna!!

Josh and Ella...best of buddies!!

Makenna is so much fun, she keeps you on your feet :-) lol

Auntie, Uncles, 3 neices and a nephew; best friends forever!!


It was raining one day we were up visiting, so we decided to
play the wii!!

Jeremy and Ella boxing; Ella is actually really good!!

Love this pic!! Jeremy trying to beat Ella :-) with Joshiah looking on!

Josh and Josiah boxing!!

Jeremy and Susan boxing! They are so much fun to watch!!

Josiah is really good at boxing; it is fun playing with him!!

This is the outcome of Josiah's and my game. We both had
a KO but his guy got up after nine seconds.... I know
crazy right?!  Unfortunatelly we never were able to
play a rematch...maybe next time!