Tuesday, 7/17 (recap)

The team went to help with VBS today and then in the afternoon held a soccer clinic/outreach on the mountain near our base.  VBS theme is "The Word" this week and today's lesson was about how everything created was through the Word and by the Word.  Madame Pastor Robby taught the lesson and then the team helped with small group. craft and games.  We had about 175 children again! 

We have been blessed to watch the local church learn as they implement their own VBS (we just assist where we are needed).  They have done a great job so far.  Except for time management issues, they are very organized and are reaching the children. 

The soccer clinic/outreach was awesome!  Gary (our Haitian friend/contact on the mountain) was a HUGE help with organizing the drills and encouraging the children.  He translated for us and even helped with lesson time.  He got all the snacks arranged for us in advance too.  The team and children were even blessed to have overcast skies and a cool drizzle of rain as we were doing the actual soccer so it kept us all a bit cool and out of the blazing sun.

This team is GREAT and working hard to follow God wherever He is leading. 

** on a side note-  the bus transmission has been out since Day 1.  Please pray that they can get it fixed tomorrow so we can use our bus for the rest of the week.  This is killing the budget, and making transportation more difficult.  So far we are out about $600 US if you would like to help toward that expense.