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HAITI DAY 3 – SWEET DAY!
We had another great day at the Wesleyan Church and school. We finished demolition of the 2nd floor church building. Big Dale was awesome with the new sledge hammers we donated! We spent a lot of time with school kids playin games, doing the Hokey Pokey and Chicken dances to name a couple…Duck duck goose was a hit! Judging from the laughter and excitement it may have been the first time they experienced this game and saw crazy white people running too as a goose. They also like making bead bracelets too. Back at the compound we had a great feast to celebrate our day and we watch a neighbood soccer game using a new ball we supplied. Those guys are good! Tomorrow we are going to a new refugee tent city. Pray for us that we can brighten these kids day tomorrow. Also pray that aid and more volunteers continue to come into this country of beautiful people. We are also going to try and raise a new large tent back at the Wesleyan church that will be used to provide shelter for church services. They are very excited about this! In God’s Love, the May Haiti Team
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Thanks for everyone’s comments and keep them coming! What an awesome day we had with about 100 loving kids at the Wesleyan Church/School site. If we had a dollar for every smile the kids and our team generated today we would all be rich! We had a riot playing soccer, coloring, song singing, jump rope, bubble blower machine was a hit, and just making them feel special. I think they touched our hearts more than theirs!! Also we spent a lot of energy knocking down cement walls with sledge hammers (see pic of Jon). We moved a lot of church benches and iron beams off the demolished 2nd floor. So much manual demotion now needs to take place to clear the way for the rebuild. We bought more tools today that we’ll use tomorrow at the same site. So much needs to be done but one cement block and a child’s smile at a time. God bless everyone back home for supporting us! May Haiti Team
Day1 was acclimation day for us. The local World Hope Staff International (WHI) made us feel very welcomed. After dropping off relief supplies at WHI Hdqtrs we took a long ride thru Port Au Prince and saw the devastation first hand. Amazing…eye opening experience! We then checked into the WHI compound and had lunch and relaxed while trying to stay hydrated in 90+ temps. Beautiful sunny day here. Before dinner we had a nice hike through the neighborhood tent village and shared many hellos and smiles. This was the best part of the day! Rick, Cheryl was a trooper on the hike! We also played soccer, jumped rope and Jeff had a Creole language lesson by 7 year old Katrina. (See pic. Attached) tomorrow we plan to go to a damaged Weseyland Church for repair work and kids VBS time.
We made it to Miami a few minutes ago and it’s good to be “home”. We saw the Houghton team off at 6am and then we went for a long walk in the villages nearby. We stopped at Jourdan’s house. (see photo) He works for works for World Hope. He lives there with 15 others.
Today we attended services in a tent community right outside the place we are staying. We were ministered to in a big way. The service lasted about 3 hours and we were touched. They sang praises with passion and sincerity. As they sang one song in their language I recognized it as, “How Great Thou Art”. I started weeping. If they praise God that way with what little they have, then there is something wrong with me. How I want their faith!
