We're Home!

What an amazing ride!  Can't believe the week is over.  There are so many blessings, so many gifts.  The hot and sweaty work, side-by-side with the Haitian workers;

the time in the classrooms with the children;

 

after hours with the community;

 

 

 

a ride in a tap-tap and a visit to the Village of Hope, a community for the deaf;

 

 

 

 

a return visit to La Tremblay, where we worked last year;

 

 

 the "mass grave," a very powerful and somber experience.

Each year is the same.........  each year is different............  As the sign says at the memorial for the thousands who died from the earthquake on January 12, 2010, and were buried in a mass grave, let us not forget Haiti.

Mid-week Update

Wow, what a week it has been already in Leveque. The church has been so welcoming. The Principal shook my hand and hugged me. We are visiting classrooms and encouraging them to be a follower of Jesus thru the Matthew story and "fish" bracelets. We are also reminding them of good hygiene. We invited women of the community to join us for the making of handbags out of hand towels. They came!!!

The work has been slow but we worked very hard on Tuesday. Once again, the food has been wonderful! See our dining room. Rose is our cook and she is great! So are interpreters, Ricardo and Leonard.  It is no surprise that God is blessing the team in amazing and wonderful ways, bringing us closer together and closer to Him. Bondye bon!  God is good!

We made it!!!!

We safely made it to Haiti.  The traveling was rather uneventful; we did have an hour delay in Miami, but arrived to a newly renovated airport in Port-au-Prince.  It is awesome.  The trek thru Customs and the baggage area was nothing like the old "black cave," as Sarah of the Guest House described it.  It was a piece of cake.  We got all of our luggage and met Jackson and his men who escorted us to our transportation.  Ricardo met us at the airport and will rejoin us in the morning; he's one of our interpreters.  We got an orientation for the week, including our work in Leveque.  According to Sarah, they are getting close to completion of the new church.  We will be hauling concrete as the contractors work on the walls.  Before that, we will get up early tomorrow morning and leave at 6:30 am to worship with the community of Leveque.  This was a blessed, blessed day, and we reminded ourselves that it's a new experience for each of us.  So, let us be prepared for God's plans.....  See our beautiful team at the Methodist Guest House below.