Haiti blog.
So we just arrived in Haiti a few days ago and I actually really like it so far. i’m sure a huge part of it is the orphanage we’re staying at, His Home for Children. It’s like a little slice of America. It’s run by an American couple, actually, Hal and Chris, whose story I’ll share later when they arrive. So far we’ve been hanging out with another American missionary group who has come down to do VBS with the kids, and let me tell you, they know how to VBS!
And about the kids, they’re so cool and well-behaved. Most of them speak French or English, and just a few speak only Creole. As I speak English and can get by in French, I’m having a blast communicating with the children here.
Our main transportation has been a ghetto-rigged heavy truck. There’s a cage on the back where the bed should be. I mean literally a cage. That’s where all the passenges go! And when the cage gets full, you hang on the bars on the outside and hope that the huge potholes don’t throw you off into the muddy streets which by the way aren’t full of mud as much as they are… sewage, at least in this part of Port au Prince. Thank God for public works! Pay those taxes! Haha.
We were fortunate to go to church this Sunday with the kids of the orphanage and the local community. I half expected it to be a memorable experience, and it was! Right here, in the middle of a foreign country, is a church that is run very much like a Baptist church, service in English, white pastor lol. Emily pointed out that the church was full mostly of men, which was different than what we’ve known back in the states.
I think I’m going to change a diaper this month. Please keep me in your prayers for that, and the child too! The girls on the team are going to have fun educating me on how to do babies; I don’t know the first thing to do with one! So far I’ve only held “level 1” babies that don’t cry. I’m a little anxious to hold one that starts crying. I won’t know how to turn it off! I might even, start crying! It’ll be a good month full of learning, though. The girls are already prophesying that I’m going to have all girls. Oh goodness! Don’t want to think about that stuff quite yet!
Our ministries here in Haiti will be preparing another children’s home for Hal and Chris, VBS (although I don’t know how we can possibly keep up with the pro job that Dan and Ann’s team are doing), evangelism and all around loving on these kids who have lost everything and need lovin’ on. In Jesus’ name!
