Bon Jour From Haiti

Beautiful Little Haitian Girl

We are on our day 6 today with a full work day ahead of us. It has been amazing how the Lord has worked on all of our hearts this week. This morning the Lord has shown every team member new gifts and talents. It is as though each team member just oozing with the holy spirit!
Yesterday, we went to the our newly adopted village (Capion) and they were waiting for us. Peggy has been amazing and teaching the plan of salvation with the soccer balls that GF showed us. They have touched many hearts. We also made more salvation bracelets and taught basic hygiene. We set up sort of a Triage and helped many wounded people. Again, Peggy has impressed us all with her gifts and talents!
Doug (Dooglahs) has of course touched many hearts and is adamant about learning Creole! He sang with many groups of children and today will be ministering and showing the Movie of Salvation at the near by hospital where the earth quake victims are. Yesterday, we visited the hospital which was initially being built as a Pediatric Neonatal hospital - run by the British here- but after the earthquake it became a place with mostly spinal cord injury victims. We walked in and may patients were listening to Christian music and waving their hands int he air praising the Lord as they lay in the bed. There was one man who was in a halo, severly injured, who was laying there singing. What a great spirit these people have.
We also visited a nearby orphanage where we saw many hydro cephalic babies and handicapped children. There was one small boy who had my heart. He was 2 years old and had a twin sister that had palsy. When Madam Debbie played the Proclaimer- a device that speaks the bible in Creole- the baby placed his hand on it and said "Belle" which means beautiful! It was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen!

Today, Mr Jeff will be in his element as he is welding a grill, out of water pump parts, for the village party tomorrow. We will be cooking 1300 hot dogs on sticks for the entire village! Then we will have movie night and show the Salvation Movie to the entire village!

While in the village yesterday we met the mayor and formed a plan for our next trip this fall. While we were there the guys were most amazed to see a cock fight! On the way out we stopped at a small village and listened to school children sing songs on the side of the road. Andy was a hit when he started dancing with them all! Pappie Nevin took out the frisbees and had a ball with the children as well.

Louvinna has been an awesome intercessor in prayer for us all. Blessing every thing we do and all the people. What a great gift she has.
The men are happy as they all have projects to do today. They worked with the national team to finish the well yesterday and it can be used today which is a huge blessing!

There are still so many needs to be met here and at times it is so overwhelming. It is so important to remember why we came and that we cant save the whole city but one village at a time is a good way to start. I have found that there is nothing that is too hard for a Haitian to do! It is amazing what they will do to just get water, food and shelter...walking miles for just simple things. Most Americans would have already given up or said it is too hard....But these gracious people continue to persevere.

Tomorrow we will have the village party and it will break our hearts to leave. These smiling faces as they shout our names when we pull into their village. The hugs and when they touch our faces because we are "blanco". We know that the Lord has sent us here to save this village and how it must sadden him to see his children living this way.

Please continue to pray for us. Our health and safety. Please also continue to pray for Pastor Rick and Debbie. What they endure on a daily basis is amazing. Their ministry is such a blessing to this country. Daily people walk into their compound with needs. It is amazing how they continue to pour their hearts out.

I will blog more as we enter the states and hopefully send a photo for the church to show on Sunday. We will be in the states Saturday night but home on Sunday.

We love our families very much and miss them but when we leave we will all leave behind a piece of our hearts in Haiti.

Blessings!
Glennis