Teaching in Delmas 6
A view of the tent city
Week 2 we taught in Delmas 6. We had an amazing week! The tent city was very different to the others we had been to.....it was much cleaner and very organized. When we got there we set up and went out to visit people in their homes, invite them to come to the teaching and played with the kids. We had fun teaching the kids various games. I sat down with a group of women, without a translator and communicated the best we could.....one of the ladies was getting her hair braided with extensions weaved in so I watched and loved on them. One was studying, another playing with her daughter. I bonded with Maria and Francesca. When it came time to teach they all came with me to the teaching. There was a guy there that had been a voodoo priest and we had some intense conversation (all good), he had a lot of questions. At the end of the teaching time, we had a time of ministry, where we prayed for people.........I will never forget praying for three people in particular. The first was Willy, he is 18 years old, a believer and wanted to deeper relationship with Christ. We only had two translators so they would ask what people needed prayer for, translate for us and help someone else, then we would pray in English. Jorn and I prayed for him, when we were done praying, his face was so lit up, shining, he truly had the 'JOY' of the Lord in him! I had never seen anything quite like this before, it was so amazing! We talked more with him and gave him homework to read the book of Daniel. He came back the next day, still shining, having done his homework, had dreams and visions from the Lord and hungry for more!!!! He continued to come back even hungrier every single day, shining brighter and brighter!! Next I prayed for Maria, she had severe stomach pain, had operations and needed to have more (the translation was a little 'unclear' so we weren't exactly sure of the details), we prayed for her and when we were done, she said she was in less pain. We believed God was going to heal her! The next day she was feeling better and we prayed for her again. Hannah and I continued to pray for her each day and in our own prayer times back at the base....by Thursday we had the amazing news that she was completely pain free and was healed! Thank you Jesus! On Wednesday I had the awesome privilege of leading 11 year old, Fabriella, to the Lord. The kids were so good, they all sat and listened to the message, intended for the adults, they were patient and hungry for the messages we shared.
At the end of each of our teaching times we were blessed with ice cold sodas or a snack of some sort! We had come to teach them about the Love of Christ and they showed us instead....out of their poverty, they chose to bless us! WOW
By midweek, after leading Fabriella to the Lord, I really began thinking....how would she grow? who would teach her more about Jesus? The Haitian culture believes that you need to dress up and wear nice clothes to attend church. Churches are far and few between so getting there is a whole 'nother obstacle! This made me sad! Often different teams come through, some do a VBS for the kids and the base alternates doing worship and a message twice a week in different tent cities, but is this good enough? I imagine the VBS messages are the basic gospel, but how does that help one grow to know more? My heart was breaking for these new believers.......my prayer is for discipleship, that someone would come and disciple 5-10 people that could then turn around and disciple 5-10 more and therefore multiple. I thought about Willy teaching the kids and prayed for someone to pour into his life so he could pour into others! Knowing that I am one person, who doesn't speak Creole and is very limited to my ability if any to do this, I had to turn to the Lord, to Trust Him, to know that He is in control and has a plan! The best thing I could do then and now is to pray! Will you join me in praying for men and women to Disciple the Haitian people!
On Friday we decided to bless the people that faithfully came and attended are sessions all week and brought food to feed them after our teaching! I spent the morning with Francesca and a few other ladies helping them separate bags for food they were selling and even got my hair braided! :) There was tons of food and lots of people ate! Everyone was so grateful! We ate, played, danced and worshipped! Another great week in Haiti! Thank you Jesus!
Jorn loved the children, well, we all did! :)
This is Willy! :)
Notice the braided hair! I forgot to mention we painted the kids nails one day, well....they wanted to paint ours too.....hence the lovely blue nails! :)
This lady broke both legs in the earthquake! Abel and I went to her tent to pray for her one of our first days there, she was in a lot of pain and she came out everyday for the teaching and was getting around better and better each day. Another view of my lovely braided hair! :) Things one does for ministry!
One of the ladies I sat with most of the day on Friday and helped with her little food business!
Francesca! I forgot to mention....she saw my purity ring and wanted it so I gave it to her and had a translator explain what it meant. It said 'true love waits' around the band! She was SO EXCITED to have the ring and kept thanking me for it!
Another lady I made friends with and one of my teammates, Hilary! We ended up having a little photoshoot on Friday. One of the guys was snapping all these pictures with my camera and then made me take pictures of him and the guys!
Definitely a ladies man! (he was the photographer of the other shots with me in them)
Trying to be cool! And they dragged Jorn into it! The poses were cracking me up!
My lovely sweet teammate, Jill, in the back of the truck while we were driving.
Riding in the back of a truck! Anacias is one of the full time Haitian staff and a super amazing guy!
Traffic! The little pick up truck are called 'tap taps', typically there are about 15 people crammed in the back of them.
Street market and place to exchange money! There aren't really banks to exchange money and the rates on the street are typically better!
View from the truck while we were driving!
My amazing teammate, sister and prayer warrier, Elizabeth!
Our crazy german, Dani, taking video while we were driving!
photo courtesy of my teammate, Steven Michelau, this is the lady that broke both legs in the earthquake. This was the first day we prayed for her and she came out for the teaching.
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