Greetings from Haiti! Wow what a day! Where to start? Well, our street ministry was interesting to say the least. Just short of rioting at times. Lesson learned: When more then a handful of Haitian children present DO NOT present candy or even attempt to reach for a piece! lol. But after that experience we got things under control and made bracelets, polished fingernails, and did some Evangelising. But the bead ministry was a disaster. Nest lesson: never turn your back on a tub of beads surrounded by Haitian women. Adults and children alike filled their pockets and hit the road. I would say truthfully w/ in 15 seconds all the beads were out of sight. But it settled down and we had a good ministry in the church. We prayed and it brought tears to the pastor to see us up there ministering to the people. He felt the need to walk us back to our house and we settled in for lunch. After lunch we took a dip in the ocean since we were wet with sweat anyways. We came back and played soccer and frisby with all the kids when we were pleasently surprised when compassion representatives arrived. They had brought our youth group sponsored child Rosie to meet us!! All the children are beautiful but i have to say Rosie is the most trebelle or beautiful! We were not prepared any way shape or form but it didnt matter once we got to spend time with her. She was a little shy at first but quickly warmed up to us. We took her on her first trip to the ocean! She loved it. We gave her and her mother gifts from the team that also brought a HUGE smile to her face. We explained to the translator that we were sorry we didnt have more to give her bc we didnt know she was coming but he said the most important thing for her was to meet us and know that we care about her. He said showing love and giving hugs to a haitian child is very important bc things like that come few and far in between. But our day is coming to an end and we are preparing to say boodbye to another staff member that we all have come very close to. But god bless and thank you for your prayers and continuos support.

Sincerely,
Haitian mission team

Monday in Mole. We had two Church services yesterday that were good. Today we are off to another church to do street ministry with the kids. We are going to make bead bracelets for the children. Another beautiful sunny day. Whew!! We are all making alot of new friends, one of the staff members had to leave today to go to another town. She had to take her baby/our baby, it broke our hearts as well as hers. She took baby Julie to raise when Julies mother past away. We put together funds we had and gave them to her. She was very appreciative and the tears were flowing. There are so many kids here it is just unbelievable. As I write this from on top the balcony kids are yelling our names and asking for us to come play. We leave in about twenty minutes. We are bagging up candy and loading supplies. We will keep you updated. God Bless.

Hello everyone. The team all made it to Haiti safely! We spent our first night in Port Au Prince in the baptist house. The ride from Port to Mole we all got a window seat in a six seater plane. This plane was flying at only 5000 feet elevation when a normal plane is at 35000 feet, so we got to see all the scenery. Mole has a population of about 10,000 ppl. When you are walking around it does not seem like there are that many ppl here. They are scattered so far. We have had many new experiences so far. We ate goat for dinner and got the opportunity to drink coconut milk out of a coconut fresh off the tree. Today was pretty much like a free day for us to unpack the supplies and get acquainted w/ the town ppl. We went to the ocean and did some snorkling and swimming w/ the naked young haitian children. :) Talk about new experiences! lol. We will start the ministry aspect of our trip tomorrow. We plan on going prayer walking in the morning and handing out supplies. Keep us in your thoughts and prayers.

Sincerely,
Haiti mission team