There are two new blogs today! Shocking! : ) So when your done keep reading! and the pictures will be coming soon internet here is kind of hard sometimes!
with few amenities, and little constant power turning off the TV doesn’t seem that hard to while on the race. In fact, I haven’t watched TV for over a month now. At least not in the traditional sense but often I find myself feeling as thought I am still glued to the screen!
As I sat in the back of a old metal truck bed in Haiti, bumping our way to Petit Guava and pooling into human lava I still felt as if I were watching the Haiti tragedy on TV. Though the heat was more real and stifling than anything I could imagine the reality of the rubble felt so distant. We blew by empty thresholds where only door frames stood as tombs to the houses that once lay beyond. I saw cement pancaked where homes three stories high had crumbled away in moments and I sat there asking myself, why I could not fathom this? Why did this still feel like a TV show? As if I were watching the headlines scroll by on the evening news…
It wasn’t until we rolled to a stop at Brother Nate’s place in Petit Guava that I was able to take a deep breath of humid aromatic compound and turn off the TV. Smelling the salty ocean just 50 yards from the compound jolted me into reality. Within 30 minutes of being on sight we were loading all the materials for a whole new home into a truck and delivering it to locals. All the sudden the real adventure started and I didn’t need a screen to show me the kind of life I want to live, I was living it!
Our contacts here are phenominal. A family of five and one helper they are the only white people in this whole city, and the only aid working to rebuild houses. A crowd gathered around as we unloaded the precious would structure to stare not just at the new flood of white people, but the enomally of recieving more than tarps. BUT THE BEST PART! Brother Nate is determined to create less dependency on foreign missionaries and has partnered with a whole network of churches in Southern Haiti and it is those pastors that are in charge of distributing the aid. He has been running a school for missionaries here for a year, and has subsequently been able to have some very trust worthy Haitian men of God that he can work through.
THIS KIND OF INDIGENOUS EMPOWERMENT AND SPIRIT LEAD PEOPLE WILL CHANGE HAITI! and I feel blessed beyond measure to be working for them!
