On October 10th at 8 am, our entire squad piled onto a bus. We left Boca Chica and drove through the Dominican Republic, crossed the border, and drove all the way through Haiti. We arrived in Port-Au-Prince around 7 pm. The three co-ed teams and the three all girls teams got on different buses for our separate ministries this month. We drove about 2 more hours from Port-Au-Prince to Montrouis (pronounced as Mowi and spelled in Creole as Monwi). Our house, called the fish house, is so cute!!! It’s pink and has twinkly lights and is on such a beautiful property!
The ministry we are working with this month is Supply and Multiply. They have many, MANY types of ministries we are going to be helping them with.
Supply and Multiply has two houses called Matthew 25 houses- one for women only and one for men only. Each house provides about 4 gramoun (gramoun means elderly in Creole) with shelter, a good source of food, water, clothes, medical attention, etc., etc., etc. We got to meet everyone who was in their facility, painted the ladies fingers, have lunch with them, dance with them, and just hold their hands and love on them. Because they only have about 4 beds per house and it is particularly hard sometimes in this culture to have the gramoun move into their Matthew 25 houses, there are a lot of house visits that need to be done too. We were given the opportunity to walk to different houses, check up on the gramoun in the community, and pray over them.
The ministry also is involved in Ann’s Children’s Home (a house that was started around the time of the earthquake that takes in any kids who have mental disabilities, hurt from the earthquake, lost their parents, discarded, were in the hospital, and other situations (their website is GodsChildrenHaiti.org )), bible clubs, Sunday school, VBS, women’s club, and a few other things. We are helping to plan lessons and activities with the kids and are in charge of running most of these things for the month we are here.
Other fun things we have done:
1. We have gone into the community for evangelism. We met a lot of people, but one man named John really impacted me. He did not think Christianity was a particularly good thing and did not understand the basis of it, either. We got to sit with our translator and read the first three chapters of Genesis, explain the gospel, talk with him, pray over him, and read a Psalm to him.
2. We go to choir practice on Saturdays, and on Sundays, we get to be a part of the Haitian Church choir!!!
3. MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE THING IN THE WHOLE WORLD….. swimming with Haitian kids in the ocean. As soon as our teams go to the ocean (which is only a 5 min walk from our house this month!!!!), TONS of kids follow us there, rip off all their clothes, and jump in with us. The ocean itself is beyond breathtaking, and on top of that, we get to float and splash and play with all these naked little kiddos. I have never partaken in such a spontaneous, beautiful, and freeing ministry!
I have been in Haiti for only a few days, but it has completely stolen my heart. We get to partake in such a variety of ministry! I rarely have the chance to work with elderly people and it is a huge blessing (it makes me seriously appreciate my mom and grandma’s everyday work and realize how important and needed this ministry is). The people here are incredible and I want to soak up every second. I pray this month goes by very, VERY slowly. 
