October Update Just Arrived!

October greetings, Joe and Jill!


· Weight: 18 lbs 3 oz
· Height: 28.5 inches (72.50 cm)
· Adoption status: Courts

Chancelet Specifics:

Chancelet is certainly an active, busy little boy. He tends to like to change activities frequently, finding whatever seems most interesting at the moment. J He is just such a happy little boy, though, that pretty much everything makes him laugh and smile!

I saw the cutest thing when I walked into the nursery earlier today. Chancelet’s nursery was more crowded than normal, mainly because one of our foreign staff members was sitting on the floor with a group of children gathered around her. Chancelet, however, was interested elsewhere. One of his friends was lying on the floor, drinking his bottle. Chancelet was, quite considerately, trying to help him. He held the bottle for his friend—who was, incidentally, quite capable of holding his bottle himself!—and made sure that his friend got all his milk. A couple of times as I watched the bottle either slipped or the other boy decided he was done. Chancelet would just take the bottle and put it back in the other child’s mouth so he could keep drinking! :-)

Generic GLA Update:

We have continued to be busy here in Haiti with many of our families coming and going! We have had 13 more families come to appear before the judge, as well as 9 families come to take their children home to join their “forever families.” We praise God for the completion of these adoptions, and we look forward to seeing many more children going home before the end of the year!


It has been nice to have had all of our foreign staff in Haiti for most of the month of October. Laurie is recovering well from her Hepatitis and is back to work in the office. Stephanie has also returned from visiting friends and family back home and is also back at work. John and Dixie were here in Haiti for most of the month, but they left earlier this week. They will be travelling in the US and Canada, doing fundraising for GLA. Please remember them in your prayers as they travel and also that they would be successful in raising the money we need to run the orphanage. We have had several major expenses recently, including generators and vehicles breaking down and needing repaired and replaced. We trust that God will be faithful, as always, to provide for our needs and for those of the children in our care.

“And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.”

         ~Philippians 4:19