Sunday, July 11

Today we had the opportunity to go to the local Haitian church. It was an amazing experience. We took the 7 min walk down to the church. When we walked up to the church it was very full and people were standing on the stair way outside waiting to get inside. We walked up and eventually got inside and then one of the ushers led us to a bench that we could sit on. It was very packed and we could hardly even find a place to sit. The service was entirely in kreyol and so we couldn’t really understand any of it but it was still an amazing experience. It was really cool to see how they worship differently than us. There was a lot of singing, which was good because then we actually kind of knew the songs, just not the words. Another thing that was cool was how into it they all were. They would all raise their hands and shout “amen”. It was a great new thing to see and I wish I could see more of that at home. It was great to see so many people praising God, even when they have been through so much in the past couple months. When we got to the church it had already started and by the time it had ended we had been there for 2 ½ hours. It was amazing to see all those people praising God with that much joy. We had to leave the church before it was completely finished because we had to get back to the main house for lunch. However, when we left the ushers had just started passing out lunches to all the people. We didn’t think it was such a great idea to eat that food so it was probably a good idea that we left when we did. The rest of the day we just hung out getting ready for the VBS for Monday and relaxed.
Anna and Leah