Today is Wednesday
and we started the day with our devotions on the deck with goat, chcken, duck,
music and street noices of all kinds. This is our final day and we all have such mixed emotions. We all
miss our loved ones and are so ready to reunite with them at home, but on the
other hand we feel so called to love those all here in Haiti, and continue to
bring the love of Jesus to them. We had a wonderful breakfast with pancakes and
the best homemade juice and boiled eggs and of course coffee. We had the
wonderful priveledge of delivering 37 desks to different schools that we had
made during the course of the time that we were here. Did we see a lot of
excitement amongst the children. We also handed out a book on John from the Bible
and told them how much we loved them. We prayed with the teachers, students and
the school. We were so touched when a class sung in the English language “Today
is the day that the Lord has made” tears of joy ran down our cheeks. We came
back and had lunch consisting of sweet potatoes, yum, coleslaw and rice and
beans. Our cooks have been wonderful. We have been so blessed with our meals.
In the afternoon we shopped to help the locals that had their merchandise on
the side of the street. They were appreciative for our support, and this brings
food to their tables. Their handiwork was beautiful. We then left with John who
operates the Five Loaves center and took us to the country side where the
poverty is the worst of the worst. We had clothing and toys for the family. The
tears of joy that we experienced in the morning became tears of great sadness.
It is something that is unexplainable. Dirt floors to sleep on, very dirty
clothing, water very difficult to get, starvation, and a home itself is in
poorest conditions. But as we prayed with each family we could hear their week
voices responding to our prayers. Our heads hang low as we sit in the back of
our pickup. We cry to God and say Lord give us direction, show us how we can
better ourselves to be the hands and feet of Jesus and then our teenage
interperter was singing “My God is so good”. As we draw a close to the day, we
again had a wonderful meal and discussed our day journey and what the day meant
to us. We praise God for keeping us safe as we rode in the back of the pickup
on the worst bumpy roads and the
entire week none of us fell out.
We priase God for keeping each of us healthy. We thank God for all the
hymns that we heard for hours from area churches. We praise God for the
beatiful creation in Haiti. The mountains proclaim the glory of God. We praise
God for putting a few smiles on God’s children in Haiti. We praise God for
giving us new visions. We praise God for the lows and highs of the week. As I
close this blog I ask those reading this to continue to pray for the poverty in
the world, and that God will touch each one of us in some way so we can live
fully to honor and praise God’s name in our walk
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