We arrived in Port au Prince yesterday and are staying at a lovely guesthouse where Medical Teams International are headquartered from Haiti. Enjoyed AC last night and great meals. Tonight, we ate rice and beans, bar b qued chicken, green beans, all yummy. We’re always so hungry! Dreaming of cheeseburgers at Miami airport tomorrow! Today [...]
On day 5, after an exciting 2 hour drive up the mountain, we worked in another coffee nursery, played with local children, colored Bible story pictures, and taught crafts and Bible stories to over 100 children in a small village church, and visited a local hilltop market. Children are proud of their colored [...]
On Monday, we drove almost 2 hours high up into the mountains to work with our new friends at a new community coffee nursery and to visit children at a school next to the nursery. It appears that almost all school in held in local churches.
What a wonderful and interesting trip this has been so far. Today (Sunday) we drove straight up a mountain to the rural village of Chadrack, where we arrived just in time to join a precious congregation singing and worshiping in the clouds. We filed in and sat on handmade benches and were warmly welcomed by these [...]
We arrived at Port au Prince this afternoon with no problems. Beautiful view from the air of the island of Hispanola! On the ground, we witnessed up-close, earthquake rubble and trash pushed to the sides of the road, and hundreds of makeshift tents, some as small as a pup tent, erected along the roadside–people everywhere with [...]