Shopping in Town

Good evening from Haiti! After a fairly good night of sleep for all of us, we were ready to explore the area. Zach Seegar-King, a CRC missionary here in Haiti, picked us up to take us out for a morning of shopping. We started our shopping trip with a stop at the Baptist Mission store and then to a shop that Zach knew about in Port-a-prince. We all found some great things to bring home. We are also learning fast how to live with the Haitian motto of, "No worries". Very little here is done with time constraints, and the craziness of the roads and traffic make you learn quickly to just relax, because there is nothing you can do about it anyway! Zach then took us to the CRC ministry offices here in Haiti and we met with Pastor Lament, who shared with us his passion for the people of Haiti. I was so impressed with this man and his positive vision, on what many could see as "unmoveable mountain" of a task.

After our visit, we stopped for lunch before heading back to the toddler house to meet some of the older kids that we will be doing our VBS with next week. We had great fun there playing with the kids. We learned quickly, that they knew the phrases "Ready, Set, Go!", and "What is your name?" One thing that has been hard, is when you play with 1 child, you have 5 others jump in wanting your attention. They love the special TLC!!! There are about 75 kids in the toddler house. (There are 98 in the infant main house.) It was hard to say good bye to them before walking down about 20 minutes to the main house for dinner.

It is so hard to put these experiences into words. Just know that we are all aready amazed by this experience, and praying that we can have an impact here. It was a good, full day here. Kim Schreur