Haiti Happenings

Two dozen KK doughnuts!!  Our team members just brought us in LOTS of food supplies, but the KK doughnuts & bags of Starbucks coffee beans were over the top!  Did I mention a pound of See’s Candy?  I feel a sugar rush comin’ on.

This young man was playing with a box in front of our house.  I happened to be standing in the street watching the younger ones play soccer and snapping a few photos.  The box became a hat, a gun, a goal marker, and several other things as he used his imagination in his play.  No SPS, no Nintendo, no Xbox…just a cardboard box and an imagination.  That’s what it’s all about in our street.

Dorothy, colleague Cynthia Aldrich, and a group of ladies from the Haitian A/G Women’s Ministries prepared ‘relief kits’ for about 500 ladies in our churches.  The kits included hygiene items, as well as lightweight bedcovers and protein shake mixes.  Monies and donations came from the Colombian Assemblies of God churches and Convoy of Hope.

It was a LOT of work but the ladies enjoyed themselves and were so very grateful.

The neighborhood boys were wearing the T-shirts from the Camp Hill, PA team that was here last week.  As the rains started, it didn’t slow them down a bit.  They played as a ‘river’ of water ran down the middle of the road.  It’s fun to see them enjoy life, though they get a bit too serious at times with their soccer.  I provide the ball.  When they are finished they toss it over the gate and yell “mesi.”