Sunday, August 6, 2017
Bye Bye
The team is safe at the airport waiting on their flight back to the USA. Stacey and I are ready for a rest and for staff retreat. Thanks for all your prayers- they were felt and answered for sure!
Saturday, August 5, 2017
Photos- Day 7
James & Johny at the beach
Carrying food at the orphanage on Tuesday
Rylan and Julia at the beach
The team is exhausted tonight.
Josh getting a shave from a Haitian barber.
Rylan carrying maccaroni into the orphanage on Tuesday.
Emily's Blog
Bonswa!!! Today was our beach day and it was refreshing to relax with the team and debrief the entire week. The water was incredibly clear and beautiful and the weather could not be any more perfect. Last night we had our community outreach at the center where we had worship, showed a snippet of VBS songs, a few teens shared their testimonies (Good job Jonathan, Dustin, and Julia!!) and Josh shared a message. At the end we had an alter call where we invited people to come and be prayed over for their needs. It was a very powerful night and God’s presence was felt throughout the center, I was truly blessed to have been a part of it. Tomorrow we are headed to Pastor Robbie’s church again and Josh has been invited to preach in Pastor Robbie’s absence and then we head to the airport to head home. While I will miss being here in this beautiful country, I am excited to be home and see my friends and family and my fur baby, Argo. God Bless you all!
Love,
Emily
P.S. See you in about 28 hours my handsome prince!!!!
Love,
Emily
P.S. See you in about 28 hours my handsome prince!!!!
Photos- Day 6
The team doing VBS songs on the street in front of the Center.
Gary - our neighbor on the mountain who gave his testimony for his neighbors (at our community outreach service)
Children's service- this was the puppet show.
Julia gave her testimony. (as did others from the group)
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.
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.
Friday, August 4, 2017
Photos- Day 5
We don't have many photos from today to share right now, but will post more later. 
There is a puppy downstairs at the mission base so the team introduced her to Sassy and Sparky. She is really cute and may find her way into a suitcase on Sunday.
Emily's hair post braids.
Becky & Molly played with the cook's son.
Team time
Josh leading worship each night.
Josh (and his friends) writing on the blog.
Dustin's Blog
We went up to an overlook on the mountain. It was by far the most beautiful view I have ever seen. The breeze out of the sun beaming directly on us with how cold it felt was like God touching all of us while we looked at something so amazing he created. Just looking down from the mountain was truly breathtaking. Going on our prayer walk and seeing how many of the people we talked to were Christians was so amazing to hear. Although when I actually had to pray over two people, I started and froze, it was a bit out of my comfort zone. Seeing how and where God has worked this week was unforgettable, everybody here is so incredibly grateful.
With CHRIST’S LOVE,
Dustin
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