Last night...
As we reenter the mission at Saint Louis we find a huge welcome home sign and many hugs and kisses (cultural thing). The smiles that we were welcomed to, was so warming to our soul.
Sunday...our first full day back!
Today was so amazing! We started with a visit at the local church across the street from the mission! It was great to see Pastor Alexa and Pastor Verti again. To be able to worship for almost three hours was great!
After lunch, I (John) ventured out of the gates of the mission to visit some of the teenagers I was working with before we had to abruptly leave. Alince, Eddie, and I spent some time talking about the last couple of months with them making fun of my Kreyol and me making fun of their English. These are two teenagers that are doing all they can to stay in school. Christi and I are so very proud of them.
After speaking with them for a while, before reentering the gate I met a new friend, Wilson. Wilson is a 17 year old boy that is an amazing artist and is trying to do all he can to stay in school too. He took me to his house to meet his mom and his step-father, which is a huge expression of love in this culture. We had a good time hanging and talking about Jesus, (he is a devout follower).
Upon leaving Wilson and returning to the mission, Christi met me and told me I was late for my own party, oops the time thing in Haiti is just not that important. All the teenage orphans came over to our house to hangout for a while. We ate snacks and had koolaid, and they talk me to do some kind of new dance. (SCARY) Within this group of orphans we definitely have two young men that are called to the ministry, Kenken and Joceylyn. I look forward to discipling them in the upcoming months. All the teenagers were so excited to start up the bible study next Saturday at 3 pm. Please join us in prayer for this bible study!
Finally our day ended by our entire family walling to Wendy's home. Wendy was a single woman that we met back in February. She was 8+ months pregnant when we left her. Since we have been gone she had her baby and we got word this morning that she was waiting on us to come back to, GET THIS, NAME HER BABY! Oh my goodness, we were so humbled. We were pumped to see that she had better living conditions is surrounded by love. We named baby, Moses and prayed that he will become a mighty leader for his country as Moses did for the Israelites!
Once again, praise GOD for each of you and to HIS name be glory alone! !
I'm so glad that y'all are all well and that you've been able to go home to Haiti! I know that you are a huge blessing to those people and that God has big plans!
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