Thursday!!

Today we all went to the girl’s orphanage. It was fun visiting with the girls.  Some of the older girls braided the boy’s on our team’s hair.  It was funny to see the boys on our team with braids in their hair.  While we were there the orphans made a circle and chose different people on the team to dance in the middle of the circle.  The girls were laughing at some of us for dancing like typical Americans.  Some played games with us.  Zach C was pretty good at doing the hand games, like patty cake.  I wasn’t so great at some of the hand games. It was really cool to see the girls interact with all the youth.  At the end it was really hard to say good bye to them, because we know we won’t see them again for a long while. After visiting the girls, we went back to base and ate lunch. After lunch we headed to Pastor Robbie’s church for a meeting with him and his leaders.  We talked about our different cultures as far as the differences in the way we raise our children.  Since Pastor Robbie’s church is so young, he wanted us to help give them ideas on how best to connect with the children.  We gave him a lot of information about how we run our Sunday schools/Jr. church. So that way we can help fulfill Pastor Robbie’s vision for his church with the children. The whole meeting went well and the Haitians were ecstatic and excited about our ideas. We pray that they can use these ideas and grow their children’s ministry.  Pastor Robbie asked us to pray for his church, that they can grow into a wonderful ministry.  Tomorrow we are going to the beach in the morning with our team and others from the church. We are all very excited and cannot wait. Let’s hope the weather isn’t too hot tonight so we can all sleep like babies. Everyone is doing well and we miss all of you and want to thank everyone for the prayers.  May God Bless you,
Annette and Zach Christie