More about Capion

Beautiful Little Haitian Girl

Our team decided that on this trip, that we would purchase a motorcycle for the Pastor who lives miles from the village. He was thrilled.  We also purchased two female goats.Later, the team put together small bags of onions, garlic, bullion cubes, sausage and spaghetti. We made 60 bags for the church families that came to church on Sunday. That small amount is enough to feed each family for a few days. The men, along with the national team,  fixed the existing  water well and Praise the Lord it was crystal clear. Today the concrete pad was poured and tomorrow we will set the well head and then the villge will have clean water!  Clean Water is the basis for everything that we will be doing. We saw many babies that are sick, but Praise the Lord the small baby we first saw is much better. We have instructed the mom on how to take care of it giving it formula for the malnutrician and showing her how to take care of the pneumonia.

Today we did a small hygiene class instructing the village how to keep things clean and then made the bracelets of salvation. Black represents Sin, Red represents the Blood of Christ, White represents Salvation and being washed white as snow, Green represents living the christian life and prayer, and Yellow represents heaven and the streets of Gold.  After we made the bracelets, we asked for someone to stand up and tell the entire salvation story and this young man did. It was powerful to see them ministering to one another. Another man stood up and said that because of the bracelet that he now had that he could not have sex anymore! Later Pastor talked about salvation and during the invitation, one woman raised her hand and asked the Lord to come into her heart. It was amazing!

Tomorrow we will go back and finish the well and some more hygiene and basic first aid classes.
It is amazing to be in a place where people have nothing at all. They are a very gracious people who have not asked to be in this situation. The children are taken care of as much as the people can. There is just no industry here for the people to have jobs. There are many moonshine places around which project quite a stench as they boil the sugar cane. This is the only thing that is really produced that we have seen.

We have many plans for this village and it has really touched everyone's heart here. A long term dedication to this village was made by our team and our fearless leader Mr. Nevin (Pappie we have been calling him). We all feel that we have found our Haitian families.

Please continue to pray for us as we are starting to be tired. The road to the village each day is unreal. Potholes as big as a car. We started singing 137 pot holes in the road, 137 pot holes, go down in one, and go around, 136 pot holes in the road......
We feel your prayers here and are very thankful for the letters of support as well. No one has gotten sick and the Lord has given us strength to endure each day.

Blessings! Salute!
Glennis