Monday 21st

Wow what a day! When we started this morning I was planning to brag about the Haitian dinner I learned to cook last night but it seems like a lifetime ago.

We started today with a tour of the church property. There is so many exciting things going on at the property. The land is prepped and waiting for the new church building to be released from customs.

Besides the building there are many sustainable projects happening. A chicken coop is almost ready for the chickens, both roasters and laying hens. The Tilapia ponds built but trying to figure out how to aerate the water. The next steps include Hydroponics gardens and truck gardens. The two other team were working on the new bunkhouses and kitchen.

We moved on from the church to visit a school at one of the tent cities. It was very eye opening! Tomorrow we will be returning to plant the promise gardens and some banana trees.

This afternoon we visited the girls orphanage. It was heartbreaking to see these girls and yet we needed to realize that these were the "lucky" ones who had someone who cared and a roof over their head. (Although the roof was a tent that was half falling down.) We spent time cleaning up the land so that a proper burn pile could be created and the new building built. We all came prepared with our work gloves to pick rocks and garbage but were soon "relieved" of our gloves by the girls. They all loved our work gloves and wanted some for themselves.

Loraine and I were blessed to have our own personal helpers. We were  each adopted by a girl who helped us pick up. Then we were able to spend some time playing and we handed out drawing packs. On Friday we will be returning to do some skits and spend some more time with the girls.

I have tried to explain a little of our day but words really cannot explain what we say and how we feel. We tried to pick a high point and a low point of the day but really almost everything we did had a high and low point.

I will say that as overwhelmed as we feel today God is at WORK in the land!