HAITI: From the Field

By Edie Dille / September 16

Yesterday was a good day. We had our routine down a bit better and we had Blaise, JP, Meri, and Fabian as interpreters. They do a great job of getting the Bible Schoolers singing in both English and Creole. We have a good number of teenagers and about the same number of little children as teens and a few adults. Still about 45 coming but it seemed like more yesterday. A tiny little girl screamed and ran halfway down the side when she saw our puppets but after she watched a little bit, she liked the puppet skit.

ESL went well with the beginner class. The advanced class was a bit challenging as two female students weren't engaged. But the men were so it was still good.

The construction guys did projects around the house and orphanage yesterday. They repaired a leaking sink and the damaged cabinet in the kitchen, put up a projection screen in the orphanage lunchroom/education room, started making benches for the orphanage, and repaired two soccer goals. A lot of work!!

The women did pedicures for four of the nannies and Lunda, our culinary genius yesterday.

Kelly taught ESL at the Clinic.

As we came back from VBS yesterday, we stopped at a little house where a young woman sat in the yard with a beautiful baby girl. The baby looked about 6-8 months old. Junior, our driver, got out and put a large sack of rice and a large can of beans and some other things out in the yard. Later, we learned that Junior supports five families with the wages he earns at Children's Hope. That woman with the baby is one of them. She was going to give her baby away because she couldn't afford to take care of her. So Junior is providing for her. God is so good!

In our devotion time last night, we discussed how we are getting caught up in the work we are doing and not focusing on God and the fact that we are doing these things for Him. Kelly put it well when she said, we are busy but not "in the moment." We also talked about how Junior is true to his faith through his sacrificial giving. While we have so much more but we do not give sacrificially.