Annette's Blog

Hi All,
I first want to let you all know that everyone is healthy and I feel that we are really bonding well as a team.  God has done some amazing things this week.  Haiti is a beautiful country and the people are all so friendly.  Tonight we had a worship and prayer service planned at the community center, so this morning some of the group went up the mountain to play soccer and the rest of us went out on a prayer walk in the community to invite everyone to our event at the center.  When we go on prayer walks I always feel as though I am out of my comfort zone, but the response that we received from the community was amazing.  Everyone that we stopped to talk to actually took the time to talk to us.  A few people weren’t interested but they did listen to what we had to say.  Some of the team members said that they felt revived after doing the prayer walk.
People were a little slow in coming so we decided to bring the CD player out and sing a VBS song out on the street to attract more people.  I actually thought it was fun but some of our team felt out of their comfort zone.  We did some worship songs and we had people give their testimony.  Crystal’s friend Gary had volunteered to give his testimony first.  How amazing is that?  Dustin, Jonathan and Julie all gave their testimonies, and it was awesome.  I am so proud of all of them.  They were confident and their stories just flowed from them.  I really felt like the Holy Spirit was working in all of them as they told their stories. Gary shared with me that he thought all of their stories were beautiful.  We had a children’s service for the smaller children, which went very well. After the testimonies Josh gave a powerful service about how we and the Haitian people are alike.  We are all just looking for love, peace and joy.  And that can be found in Jesus. It was awesome.  At the end of the service James talked to the people about what they would like to see at the center and the English classes that will be coming up,  After that we had a couple of men from the community come up to the front and thank us for having the service and asking them what they thought. They said that is shows that we care about the community and we want the community to succeed together.           I pray that we were able to bring some attention to the center and that the community lets everyone know how best to use the center. Tomorrow is beach day!
     
       Love to all of you, Annette.