Sunday

I tittled this page  "Hot in Haiti"  Yes indeed it was always hot and I was always glistening.  It seems a distant memory now and unimportant to all that went on...

Sunday AM we put on our skirts and walked to the Mission of Hope Church.  It is totally Haitian run now and we enjoyed worshiping in a beautiful way not seen at our quiet church in Colorado.  They included some worship songs in English...but beautiful to hear in Creole.  This church holds close to 700 people and was nearly full.  Lots of beautiful children.

Later---650 homes--built to replace those temporary homes built after the Earthquake by Samaritans Purse.  (You know the Samaritan Purse homes by their distinctive blue).  Many remain in use.  We visited the new village of Leveque

.  The mission just completed work on their school.  The kids are so excited about it.  Lots of kids follow us about begging to be carried.  The Moms look on from a distance.  No Dad in sight today?

Linda and Gay with some of the kids

Steve is one little girls horsey. 

Dick our team leader and Steve.

The poverty is overwhelming even 23/4 years after the earthquake many still live in these temp shelters. Some homes are being built across the "street". 

On the way back to the mission we eat at a restaurant...Big Daddy Chicken.  The hospitality exemplary.  All the village kids yell "HEY YOU"  to get some attention as they line the path going into the restaurant.  The meal is delicious.  A chicken drumstick,  plantain, rice/beans and coca-cola to drink in bottles.  All for $5. The restaurant gets dark and we can only see the food with lights from our I-phones.  This is a special meal set up just for our group by MOH.  I doubt they are open on Sunday except for us.  MOH gives the kitchen staff Sunday off.

Tonight back at the Mission Compound (70 acres)  we see a movie with intro by Brad and Vanessa Johnson the founders.  Wow God! what a visionary.  His goal is to stretch what he thinks can be done so the God will be seen in miraculous ways.  For example that school was built from August to October!  The kids were waiting:)  They are in the Haitian Schools with a Christian curriculum.  They are feeding 75K kids daily,  They are raising 65 orphans.  They serve 100 a day in their clinic and many more in their mobile clinics to villages when medical teams come.  They desire to work through the church to raise up Village Champions to articulate the needs of the Haitian people in their villages/towns.  They employ 300 Haitians and 15 North Americans. (It almost sounds to good to be true but before the week is finished, we see all of this with our own eyes).