Friday, March 22, 2013

Friday:
Today was a great day filled with love, lessons, joy and tears.  The days we spend here are teaching me so much.  We have seen extreme poverty, desperate need, horrific living conditions, and yet everywhere we go we see happy, happy children!  We spent this morning at Isaiah's Orphanage.  Judy, our team member shared the Easter Story (with our Translator) to the children.  Then we spent time decorating Easter Eggs, making collages with stickers, and lots of glitter, and playing games like soccer, and jump rope.  These were delightful, happy kids, that have their basic needs met.  I wish we could do so much more!  I met a sweet girl named Ketty, who sat on my lap, held my hand and played with me all morning.  I wanted to take her home.  I cried when I left her, and several times today, thinking about her in her cute little red plaid dress playing in the dusty, primitive school yard.    The afternoon was spent at The Home for Sick and Dying Children.  This is a clean, well run Orphanage. Not all the kids here are ill, and we spent time with the kids who could be held and play. There were 30 babies in cribs that we all fed, changed, held and prayed over.  There were also older children who we could play with outside.  These kids were very sweet, and it was so hard to leave them.  When it was time to go we put all the babies back in their numbered cribs and listened to them cry as we walked away.  There is so much need, and not enough resources!     Wendy




Friday- Day Five of our amazing trip to Haiti! Our leaders,  Laura and Deb have done a wonderful job of organizing our group, getting us where we need to be and preparing our hearts and minds for our daily experiences.  Tonight was especially emotional as five days of meeting, helping, delivering water, praying and loving Haitians, as children of God, really tugged at our hearts. Our teenage girls have been so loving to all the infants, children and elderly that they have met. Also, the parents continue to amaze me with their unconditional love for all the people of Haiti. I continue to wonder how we can do more? We met some other missions groups from Tennessee and Atlanta and they were great people.  If you would like more detail about today, read Wendy's comments above.
John



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