Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Final update being prepared
Hello friends - Be assurred that I'm prepping a final report on my Haiti trip. I want to capture all my final thoughts and apparently I have many of them! Stay tuned.
Friday, November 03, 2006
Holidaze
Hey friends - I am now back in Chicago! I had planned to make this post on Wednesday night which turned into Thursday but I got busy, and then super tired, and then the electricity went out this morning before I left Haiti. So here is my Haitian holiday post and I will make another with my final thoughts about the mission trip soon...
We didn't end up doing any "destination" travel over the 2-day holiday, but we did make it to some interesting nearby locales. On Wednesday we went out to a Haitian lunch and then to the Historic Sugar Cane Park Museum. That parque is really one of the most beautiful, clean and serene places I've seen in Haiti, a welcome respite from the chaos that is Port au Prince. We got some ice cream there and enjoyed the scenery and some conversation. Afterwards we headed along the coast of Etang (Lake) Saumâtre and up to the Dominican Republic border near Jimani. The weather was pleasant and the sunset views across the lake were magnificent!
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Yesterday morning we enjoyed coffee and conversation before taking Marty and Dave to the airport for their flights home. And yesterday evening we attended the Thursday evening prayer service in the village just outside Double Harvest that I've mentioned before named Coupon. The tools inventory guy, Carlot, gave a spirited message on creation... or so they tell me, as I haven't quite picked up Creole yet. Afterwards I got a personal tour of the home of Kedler, who attends the Double Harvest school and lives in the village. He shares the very small home with his grandparents and cousins. His mother and other siblings live in a nearby village and his father conducts his tailoring business in a small room attached to their home - it was both humbling and resourceful.
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I really can't believe I am leaving Haiti for home today. These six weeks have really flown by, but yet I feel like I've gained a bundle of rewarding memories that will last me a lifetime. My views on Haiti have come full circle, multiple times, during my stay here. While I see that many people have so little, they really have been blessed tremendously by a God who cares for them and meets many of their basic daily needs. There's a sign on my wall in my apartment here in Haiti that says "Dieu est fidele". That means "God is faithful" and I can see with my eyes that this applies more than anywhere to the people of Haiti.
