Sorry there are no Pic.s please read anyway! : )
3 days ago my team started what we believed to be a grueling 6 hour climb into the mountains of Haiti to visit a church where no missionaries had ever been. little did we know that the 6 peaks that lay ahead would take 11 hours in the hot Haitian sun. (Don’t worry Daniel is going to put up a video of the adventure very soon!)
I can’t even begin to express all that God taught us this weekend from faith, to perseverance, humility, and patience I will be processing the last three days for months to come.
But there was one moment in particular that brought me to my knees at the majesty of our father.
My smelly family had just showered in the rain runoff from tin church roof and we felt “mountain fresh” and for the first time in two months a little chilly. The night was black with thick storm clouds covering our starry night lights. With no electricity, the only light we had flashed like bright veins through the clouds. I stood thousands of feet above Haiti on the peak of a mountain and watched the valleys below flash bright as day with lightening that filled the whole sky. I felt thunder clap so close around me that the mountains shook and my heart stopped. These are the moments I will tell my kids about, the moments that ground my faith in God’s glorious majesty.
Sunday in the life of a World racer!
4:30 am up to watch the sunrise with my team in a little mountain village in Haiti our bodies still numb from the 11 hour hike
7 breakfast in the back shack of the church, with hot coffee
8 ish Church starts
9 Church continues
10 Church still going
11 Church STILL going
12 Church starts winding down
1 Lunch (boiled potatoes and bananas, goat meat, red sauce, and mashed cabbage)
1:30 Donkey debate! 6 Americans trying to get down a mountain 12 Haitians trying to keep us there (video to come)
3 nap time!
5 family shower time in the rain
6 dinner (rice and beans, red sauce, mystery meat)
6:30 pray over Pastor’s wife and daughter
7 lightening storm
7:30 Another worship service
9:30 set up bedding and try to fall asleep as a room full of Haitians observe
