Day 3

 Last night Yvette couldn't help herself.  She just had to organize something, so she got to work on the china-cabinet.  The "Big House" is truly a large home which has been converted for missionary quarters and bunk-houses for missions teams.  Although it looks luxurious (it even has a non functional water fountain in the foyer) water is in short supply, electricity rotates between street power, generator power and battery power.  Jim, you'd go nuts if you saw the electrical panels here!!!




There are a number of local young women who come cook at the Big House, and they have been very patient with our attempts to converse with them.  Thankfully Yvette speaks fluent french and many of the Hatians speak it as well.  Trying to converse in Creole is challenging as many words are so close to French, you find yourself going back and forth.






Today we spent the morning at the church property staining the new washrooms and started to put the doors on.  While there are some of the locals employed to help-out around the church, there is always much to do.  The tree in the foreground is a Papaya tree, with a banana palm to the right.











Jana's buddy Makile came to help-out.  He lives in the tent city and loves any chance to use power tools!

In the afternoon, we went to the tent-city where we erected 3 new tents for people whose tents were worse than others.  Bruce, if you're reading this, you'll notice these tents were given by Rotary!  Good for you guys.  These tents go up fast (especially when there are a dozen people working on them) and they provide great shelter from the rain.  There's about a 6" airspace between the outer shell and the inner tent, so they're very insulative.  It was nice to see the residents come around and watch or chat; or some of them pitched-in to help.  

Robert, you'll be pleased to hear the the fellows from tent city really enjoyed the photographs you sent for them.  We didn't take a lot of new photos there out of respect, but this young sweetie was irresistable!  The fellow pounding pegs above is Jean.  He is the tent city leader.  He became a believer in Christ during Jana's last trip there, and since then there have been more influential residents get saved.  He is a very hard working and caring person to take the burdens of such impoverished people on his shoulders.