DID YOU ‘RUMBLE IN THE JUMBLE’?

If you didn’t, you missed a great day …
The Jumble Sale at S’Hort de Can Masia, Santa Eulalia was chilly in temperature but the warmth of the community spirit soon extended through the entire event. There were all sorts of goodies for sale at really low prices yet still we made over €700 for the funds of our chaplaincy.
Some really high class clothes were on offer; the books were mainly new to the circuit; there were preserves, cakes and, of course, the bric-a-brac where one can so often buy a real bargain.
Soup, sandwiches and a barbeque kept us all warm and well fed.
A big thank you to all who helped, came or supported in any way.
We hope to give you another chance for a further ‘Rumble’ in the future!
Sarah Milburn

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"God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers."
~ Anonymous

"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother."
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MERCY TRUCKS IN HAITI

AT THE START: The Hexham warehouse already had in stock new water purification equipment, medical supplies and orthopaedic equipment but Roy was running around the UK stocking up on surgical equipment and collecting two anaesthetic machines when he called colleagues who were already working in Saint Marc in Haiti when the earthquake struck. Coincidently, earlier this year Mercy Trucks Americas was set up. A paramedic unit was donated to Mercy Trucks by the fire department in Pennsylvania. Mercy Truck volunteers got this ready in America and we were discussing where we were going to serve with it when this happened in Haiti.
Saint Marc is about 60 miles to the North of the epicentre of the earthquake in Haiti. Masses of people were overwhelming the local hospital in Saint Marc and the injured were filling up the YWAM (Youth With A Mission) base.  With the help of British Airways, Roy is flying out via Heathrow with this much needed equipment from the warehouse near Hexham. On Friday afternoon he will load up the Mercy Truck in Pennsylvania and then drive down to Miami and get a ferry directly down to the port of Saint Marc so as to avoid delays at Port-au-Prince.
ON THE WAY: Roy had delays due to snow when driving the truck down from New York to Miami and then an additional wait for further aid to fill the ship, which finally left with 7 empty places. This was the first shipment into the port of Saint Marc.
There were many doctors in Saint Marc but they were desperate for equipment and supplies. Initially they used a makeshift ‘hospital’ on the playing field at the YWAM centre, then, when the new hospital was ready, moved all the patients using pickup trucks. There were some terrible injuries and many people are getting infections because they have not had their bandages changed since the day they were put on  immediately after the earthquake.
There are still massive movements of people from Port au Prince up to Saint Marc.
The equipment and supplies, packed in the ambulance, were to be used in the new hospital and then the ambulance would go down to Port au Prince with four medical teams. Three teams will use the mobile first-aid boxes (plastic tool boxes from B&Q which get replenishment from the ambulance) and one team will stay with Roy in the paramedic unit/ambulance for the more severe cases, some of whom Roy will ferry back to the new hospital in Saint Marc.
ROY SAYS: Good news! We got the ambulance with all the equipment out of the port tax-free and this means that a system is now in place for other aid to come tax-free into Saint Marc. Everything is on the YWAM base now.  We all prayed over it and it was a great moment . This is a piece of a jigsaw that fits into many of the visions and projects here. It feels like a real shake up and re-birth has started here. There are some good things going on here such as the three day national prayer and fasting. This is a great step forward for a country that was steeped in satanic worship, sacrifices and voodoo.
The ambulance has been a real blessing as there was no ambulance at all in the town of Saint Marc and now we have another 40,000 refugees, many of them with injuries, who have migrated up from Port au Prince. The medical equipment we brought over has also been a blessing as the doctors and surgeons are now able to get going with more complicated procedures at the new clinic at Saint Marc. It is interesting being an ambulance driver here where there seem to be no road rules. We are working 4 days a week in Port au Prince and 3 days a week in Saint Marc. Wound care and infection control is our main focus as many of the initial dressings have never been changed. We have had some miracle healings at the clinic. The work is hard, the weather hot and the sleeping and eating conditions  challenging but it is such a privilege to be here helping these resilient people. Children that were pulled out from under rubble with severe injuries a few weeks ago have been patched up and now reward us with beautiful smiles.’
All the surgeons, doctors and nurses on the team not only volunteer but also pay their own way: flights, transportation, food, etc. They all pay to make this happen. One day Roy worked with doctors from Cuba, Canada, America, England and Panama.
‘There is such a good working relationship here between all nations working together to lift one nation that is hurting. The people are so thankful for any help that we are able to give them.’
‘One of the adult patients left the ward today and she took one of our Mercy Trucks bed sheets. I said in a disapproving voice, is she taking that home. The nurse turned to me and said, “That is her home.  She has lost all her family and her home has gone.”  A ll this lady has now is one of our bed sheets to live under. Another nurse on one of the other teams told me today that an old man who had been waiting in one of the queues holding two very young children in the scorching sun for hours came to her and said, “Please help me!” He was crying, saying that he has lost his wife, his son in law and his daughter (the mother of the two young children).  He said, “M y house is flattened.  I have no food, no shelter or water.   I have no way of looking after these two children. Please take them for me.”  He, like many thousands of others, had to be turned away from yet another queue, as we just don’t have the resources.’

You can help!
We need                                                                                                                

• Medical, dental and other volunteers.
• Supplies
• Finances for vehicles, medical & dental supplies, gas, maintenance, Bibles & Christian literature, etc.
• Prayer for lives to be saved, safety in travel, God’s glory to be shown and communities to be transformed.

For the full Mercy Trucks report on Haiti please check their website http://www.mercytrucks.org/ ,  then click on ‘Read about Mercy Trucks’ Response to the Disaster in Haiti’.

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CHAPLAIN’S MESSAGE

One of the great things in life is going out for a meal. It is always a great social occasion, especially when you are with family or friends. On two consecutive Sundays we were out for a meal. One was in the UK and the other here on the island. In each we had to wait a long time for our meal to arrive. I’m sure that you have had the same experience.
On the first occasion we were with almost all the family - only my son who lives in Hong Kong couldn’t be with us. The table had been booked well in advance. The weather in the UK was bad but not so bad as it is at the moment. There were thirteen sat down for the meal, our children and their children. We ordered our starter and main course.  The starter came.  We ate and then waited, and waited and waited and two hours after ordering the main course arrived. What we hadn’t realized was that it was the Sunday after Christmas and that a number of the staff hadn’t turned up for work. It would be fair to say that our patience wore thin!
On the second occasion, here on the island, our starter arrived and then we waited and waited and waited …. after a while we found out that the electricity supply had failed and on top of that a relief chef was doing the cooking. It was frustrating, but we were with friends and although it was a long time before the meal arrived, we were able to laugh and joke about the situation and be sympathetic to the staff, who in the situation coped exceedingly well. It was at that meal that I was told that I was expected to write for the Ibis! So what was the subject to be “Waiting!”
I thought of the number of times in my life I had been waiting. For the birth of our children, and then for the birth of the grandchildren. Waiting for the results of examinations. Waiting for the letter of acceptance of getting into college. A great deal of life is spent in waiting. I wonder what your list would look like?
Then I realized that there was another form of waiting. The other day I re-read Psalm 102 and the first two verses really hit home “Hear my prayer, O LORD;  let my cry for help come to you. Do not hide your face from me when I am in distress. Turn your ear to me; when I call, answer me quickly.” Yes, we wait for the answer to our prayers.  Look at Psalm 5:3 “In the morning, O LORD, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation.” What sort of prayer are you waiting for God to answer? 
A story about a Church in prayer. On January 6 1980, the church of which I was the Vicar suffered a severe disaster. It meant that the building was unusable. The Church met for prayer, seeking God for a solution to the problem. The answer came back by the end of that same year “You are to lose this building and build a new Church.”  The Congregation met for worship in the adjacent Church Hall until January 3rd 2010 when the last service was held in the Church building. Within the next two or three years that congregation will be meeting in their new worship centre.
I am reminded that a thousand years are like a day in God’s sight. When we come to God in prayer let us be patient and wait for Him to answer as He wills, not as we want.
David Rouch (Locum Chaplain)

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SHORT SAGA

My excuse for missing this month’s Ibis deadline is needing to wait to write about Valentine’s Day on the 14th, here known as The Day of Friendship and Love, so everyone is entitled to a slice of celebration. But to bring you up to date with events since the last instalment…our time with Hannah went all too quickly: we spent 3½ days together on the Pacific coast of Puerto Escondido in the neighbouring state of Oaxaca, re-visiting our favourite family holiday spot, which still maintains its identity as a little fishing village. Hannah then winged her way back to London, and we took the overnight bus back to San Cristobal. We missed Hannah, but we still had our ‘Re-cycled Teenagers’ (they said it!) Kevin & Hilary for a few more days, who packed in the sightseeing and fell even deeper in love with all things Chiapas, in spite of falling off Mayan ruins and floating across lakes on narrow balsa rafts without life jackets, not to mention an attempt to test the ultimate cheapest travel in Mexico on the Blue Belcher bus…how we miss them!
There then followed a rather less exciting, but perhaps inevitable episode of Mexican life, as we both had bouts of Montezuma’s revenge off and on, which thankfully seems to be over, and which made us realize how much we take health for granted and increased our admiration for our friends who endure much worse things with humour and patience. Hopefully that bit of our re-acclimatization is over (for the time being).
Bob goes to the Rural Centre (1½ hour’s drive) Mondays & Tuesdays, staying the night, and a day trip on Fridays. I go out on Fridays at present, and enjoy the time in the country.
 (For more details of the Rural Centre routine see the blog on www.bobandclare--wanderings.blogspot.com).
One of my Mother’s roles in life is connecting people. A good example is a children’s home called Canaan, run by a Mexican couple called Carlos (a Baptist Pastor) and his wife Yada. Mother heard about it from the couple who rent the flatlet in the front of her house. Then, for her 50th anniversary last March, she received visitors from UK – Pastor Marcus of her sending Church in Surrey (also Baptist) and elder of the Church Eric and his wife Barbara. Mother introduced them to Carlos and Yada, and they were so impressed they went home to the Church in Surrey and organized a donation of 10,000 GBP to enable a second story of the new building to be built. In August a group of 10 friends from the Church, led by Eric and Barbara, visited Chiapas for 2 weeks and handed over the donation.
Back to Valentine’s Day…this was when Carlos and Yada had the dedication of the new home. With only 2 week’s notice, Eric and Barbara found a promotion with Mexicana and represented the Church here at the dedication yesterday, their 3rd trip in a year! A wonderful day in the company of this amazing couple who, as well as their own 4 children, have taken in orphaned and abandoned children and raise them as their own. At present they have 17 children, with a brother and sister of 5 and 7 joining them shortly. Yada is mum, nurse and teacher (they are all schooled at the home) and Carlos is dad to all, as well as having his Church. All this by faith with very little regular income, yet God always provides. Their role model is George Muller, ‘Robber of the Cruel Streets’, who based in Bristol established homes for hundreds of children around 1832.
As well as spending time with our UK visitors and translating at yesterday’s service, this week we are helping a VOSH group of optometrists (Volunteer Optometrists Services to Humanity), each spending 2 mornings with other helpers translating between the English Speaking doctors and the Spanish, Tzeltal and Tzotzil speaking patients as they are fitted with glasses.
We send you all our love, God bless, Clare for us both.

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JOCOLAWAL

On behalf of Jeremias (Administrator) and committee of the Tzeltal Rural Centre, a big ´Jocolawal´/Gracias to everyone in the church for your gift of 900 Euros (Church tithe sent on by Sally in January). This very generous amount is such a help with the various projects under way here, which are mostly agricultural, and also was timely in that it helped to pay the annual tax due in January.

Te Cajwaltic ac'a yac'bat bendición, a'ca scanantayat.
Te Cajwaltic ac'a yilat soc yutsil yo'tan.
Te Cajwaltic ac'a yilat soc xc'uxul yo'tan.
Ac'a yac'bat lamal-o'tanil. Numbers 6.24-26 in Tzeltal.

(Literally 'May God bless you, and look after you. May God look on you with the goodness of his heart. May God look on you with pain-in-His-heart. [in TZ. to love is 'to have a pain in your heart' for someone]. May God give you 'calm-heartedness.´ [in TZ. to have peace is 'to have a calm heart'].
With love and greetings from all here,
Jeanne, Bob & Clare, and all at the Centre.

 

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EDITOR’S COMMENT

The Carnival parade in Santa Eulalia always falls on Shrove Tuesday. That’s how, before becoming a Christian I would remember Pancake Day! One of my favourite days of the year as a child! Now of course, like many mothers, I tend to keep pancakes a secret until it’s time to serve those wonderful scrumptious delights, so as not to be nagged endlessly by the offspring!
Until I read the article about ‘Shrovetide’ however, I had no idea why Shrove Tuesday existed. Now I do! The wonders of the Ibiza Ibis are never ending! Thank you to all who contribute! BUT, please I would like to give a little nudge of encouragement to anyone who is or has been thinking of putting together an article or even just a ‘blurb!’ Your Ibiza Ibis needs you!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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