Haiti Day 6: Relaxation

Today, we started off the day with church at Grace Village. The music was in a mix of Creole and English and the sermon, about discipleship, was in both. Whatever the pastor spoke in at that moment, the interpreter said the opposite after. The children came and sat around us all and I had one boy fall asleep on me. One of the biggest parts of the message that I remember is “Is Jesus good to you? ……. Then why are you so selfish with him?”

After church ended, we lunched and headed up the mountain. We drove through so pretty nice areas and saw beautiful homes on our way to the small artisan market. I bought too much stuff, but it didn’t leave anyone out!

We also stopped at a American-style supermarket. I bought marshmallows and cheese balls.

Haiti Day 5: Wahoo Bay

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Today, we started off with a visit to Grace Village. We divided into groups and talked with the kids about common childhood sicknesses. One group taught them not to stuck stuff in their noses. One had a broken hand. Someone had a headache. My group had a cold. We put flour in our hands and sneezed to show them how germs spread. We touched the kids with our messy hands and left “germy” handprints.

Haiti Day 4: Gertrude’s

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Today, we started off with a two stop water truck run. We went to two sections in Citi Soleil. One of them we had visited before. The stops went much more smoothly since we all knew what we were doing. The first place was actually pretty nice. The streets were wide and cleanish and instead of tents, there were some rough looking apartments they had. By apartment, I mean two story cinderblock building with a few families living in it.

Haiti Day 3: Grace Village

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We woke up at 5:30 this morning to go to church at 6 am. It was really neat. The Haitians were walking up and down the aisles of the massive room waving their hands around. The service alternated between singing and speaking. The open air building it was in was huge. Several hundred could fit in there at once. The church was housed on the campus of a Christian school.