Thursday, Day Two

Today began at the work site as in the past, feeding a Haitian breakfast of bread rolls and peanut butter.  In this picture, Karren Crowson (Huntsville, AL), Wanda Rosser (Williamsburg, PA), and Jamie Lindtner (West Grove, PA) hand out food to the waiting neighborhood people.  Today, we prepared about 120 rolls and used two large jars of peanut butter.

Many of those that we feed are children.  For some reason, these children are not in school.  So, they are hanging out with Wanda and Johnny, our driver.  (Johnny has been our driver on previous VIM teams, and the Croix des Mission people like him very much.)

The crepissage work is being done by skilled Haitians.  So much sand had previously been sifted that even that unskilled job is not immediately needed. We have try our hand at applying crepissage, but it is difficult without 10,000 hours of practice.  In this picture, BK Chung (West Grove, PA) is giving it a try.  (Two others, Shirley Daddario and Jamie Lindtner, are also from West Grove.)



While serving breakfast, we heard singing coming from a couple houses down the street.  A couple years ago, that family hosted a Pentecostal day of fasting.  There is non-stop singing and preaching all morning and early afternoon.

I took the VIM team down and ask to worship with them for a while.  (I had done this a couple years ago.)  The Haitians are appreciative that we take the time to participate with them.  Later, they came to the work site, formed a circle, and prayed for me.  I was touched.  But, then I found out that they thought that I was a pastor from Texas who had worked last week at Croix des Mission.  Oh well, it was still a powerful faith experience.

When the team returned to the work site, Stevenson was ready for us.  What conditions he has to teach in!  He has to bring a generator to power his keyboard.  Look at his seat, concrete blocks.  Stevenson is a marvelous music teacher.  We are making good progress on two Creole hymns.  We perform Sunday.

Hope everyone had as great a day as we.  Bob