Hi from Haiti

Most days in Haiti are filled with God moments. Today was no exception. Keith went to PAP with Mark again to get the sea can out of hoc. It did not happen again but he came back safe and that is a God moment. He showed up to the Tapion Church with Richard at just the right time to help with the rice distribution (I’ll come back to that).

This morning I walked with the Nowochin family to Marc and Lisa’s house so the kids could all do their school together. It was good to walk and talk with Charles (father) and hear his heart for God and his family. I took great pleasure hearing the wisdom he has in child rearing, being a family leader and a man. I can only imagine the blessing that will be poured out on that family for stepping out in obedience and coming to Haiti as a family for 5 weeks.

In the afternoon we took rice to the Tapion Church. Our goal was to help clean up the area and work side by side the Haitian people to restore that beautiful location. I personally had a lot of worries about doing a rice distribution out in the open without the safety of the security guards at the HAM campus. We prayed and went with the hope that God would keep us safe and we would be able to bless the people in that area. When we got there we had to go in two groups and those of us in the first group forgot to bring an interpreter. That was a fun hour waiting for an interpreter to show and explain to these people why we had 35 – 50 lbs bags of rice. It was a mixture of emotions as the people living in the area came and begged for rice from us. Anyway once Lisa showed up and tried to explain to somewhere around 200 people what we wanted to accomplish. Things seemed to calm down. However the people “living” in the tents did not want to take them down for fear that if houses were to be built for them because they were living in these tents they would miss out. So the community clean up did not take place. However Mike got up a spoke to the parents of the children and told them that we wanted to bless their children with the rice. The actual distribution went as smooth as it possibly could. Now for the best God moment of that little adventure, we gave some rice to Ivan (one of the Haitian’s who helped us with moving all the rice up and down the mountain 4 times) and he could see we were running out of rice and still had people to serve he dumped his rice back in the bin.

We ended the day with a prayer service which was great. Richard shared with the church and Chris (another missionary staying here as well) both were fantastic. It was a great day. Thanks for your prayers they are felt, we love you.