As usual, our host Thony started is off with a team breakfast, then it was a trip up into the mountains to put on a day camp with a tent community at the top of one of those mountains. It was a beautiful, steep climb. Once again, Aimee and Brooke put together an amazing program. We were a bit surprised to find around 150 kids waiting for us. We sang, acted out the Daniel and the Lion’s den story, then worked with the kids in small groups. We ended the day with a not of sight-seeing and a hrrat opportunity to listen to Thony’s story.

We again had a great start to the morning… Personal and group devotion time that was amazing. Our team has meshed together and had an amqzing time of growth.
After arriving at the work site we quickly began to construct the door to the storage building. Justin and Mark added their superior engineering to the frame and we were complete! Aimee and Brooke did a brilliant program with all of the children. They were acting, teaching and leading with great love and care.

Today started out with all of us having a quiet devotional time before heading out. We stopped at a lumber store to pick up supplies in order to build a 16X16 storage shed on the church property. We got to City Solei and followed Mark’s excellent blueprint to set posts and begin to add siding. Aimee and Brooke ran a day camp with the children while Justin, Mark, Caleb and Jeff continued building. There was time for conversations, fun and working together with ideas. Dinner with Thony was great and he is an amazing host. Pray we finish the project and help people here!

Day 1
We arrived safely in Haiti. Settled into our host home and got ready for a day of work. Had a great time traveling together.
Day2
We got to the work site where WHI is going to build a school. The amount of rubble on the lot was overwhelming but through the day with the help of some Haitian locals we cleared the entire lot. PTL! We had fun with the Haitians, occasionally stopping to dance, sing, and arm wrestle. The spirit was ecstatic. We were baked by the 100 degree sun but glad God used us. We will try to finish the lot tomorrow and have it ready for the school to begin being built. Keep is in your prayers… Love to all.

“…made it with no issues. Work day tomorrow morning.” – Mark Brummel (via Facebook)

We have made it to GR safely. It was a long day of travel and we are glad to be home. Thanks for everyone’s support this week.

Today was the last full day for our team in Haiti. This morning was pretty relaxing we sat around until about 10am when the bus came to pick us up and take us back to Port-Au-Prince. We had Dave take us over to the Women’s and Children’s Center to see how much work they had gotten done over the last few days. They had one room completely tiled and painted the entire outside of the building and the metal grates on the windows.

Around 10am the bus came and picked us up and took us to Port-Au-Prince. We went on a small tour of downtown and saw the collapsed palace. Then we went up to the baptist mission to have a look around on the mountain. After we finished there we continued our way up the mountain to the lookout. There we could look out over Port-Au-Prince and the rest of Haiti to see just how big the country is. Throughout the day we stopped a few times at some shops along the road to do some gift shopping.

We went back to downtown Port-Au-Prince to meet up with Thony and eat at a restaurant called Hot and Fresh. We got some more American-like food (Cheeseburger and fries, ribs, and milkshakes).

When we finished dinner we headed back to Thony’s house for the night and relaxed. We are spending some time chatting with Thony and playing some games. We even helped him setup the new crib for his baby that we brought down. We are sleeping at Thony’s house tonight and getting up and heading to the airport tomorrow morning to head back to the US.

We are all excited to come back to the US and be able to share our experiences with everyone. Thanks for all your prayers and comments this week, it has been great to read them everyday. Please pray for safe travels home.

Today started with another session of VBS. We went to a school today and worked with about 125 kids today. We started off with them singing us some songs in Creole. After they finished singing to us we did our typical songs and bible story that we did yesterday. After that we handed out some art kits with construction paper, crayons, and stencils. After they did some drawings we passed out some paper bags and had them make some puppets. When they finished with their puppets we took them outside and played with some beach balls.

This afternoon we went out to a resort on the beach in Grand Goave. We spent the afternoon laying on the beach and swimming in the ocean. It was hard to believe that we were still in Haiti as we looked at the beautiful view that you see in the picture above. We enjoyed a wonderful dinner of seafood and salads that were amazing.

Tomorrow we are heading back to Port-Au-Prince to meet up with Thony. He is going to take us on a tour of the city and then we are going to stay at his house tomorrow night and head to the airport Monday.