Well, we arrived here on Monday and the following day, I (Pastor Joshua) began teaching a group of Pastors from different villages all over Haiti, about 30 in all. We showed up with a package to give them, including a notebook, shirt, and a Bible in their language Creole. One of the Pastors began crying the moment he opened it because he didn't have one. I was then able to give them an overview of the Bible. It took about 4 days, 5 hours a day. We finished on Friday afternoon and had a graduation with a certificate to give them. They loved it! I was blessed.
While I was doing that the rest of the team was taking the local kids through VBS on average about 100 kids a day, just in the age group 9-12. Abby talked about the VBS in the previous post. It was awesome hearing all the kids sing worship songs in the Creole language. I am excited to see all the kids on Sunday morning, I know the rest of the team is as well because of the relationship they have had the opportunity to develop with them over the week.
Every day around 3pm we would head over to the local soccer (fútbol) field and put on a soccer tournament for 4 of the local villages. Today we had the final game... It was amazing. It seemed like everyone from all over the country came and stood on the side of a tiny uneven field loaded with rocks, gravel, holes, and tons of cactus in order to cheer on their team. They would stick it out every day, even during the daily downpour of rain. Today the team that won was awarded with brand new soccer balls we were able to bring, along with medals, a bottle of coke, and a net, which was gold to the team. It was like they won the Olympics. Alex was able to share his testimony to the crowd... It was really neat because he was asked to share in Spanish and then it was translated into Creole. The reason he did was because we are 30min from the Dominican Republic which is a Spanish speaking country, he did a great job and it was well received. We took a ton of photos and video. It was soooo exciting we will upload them once we get to an internet connection that can handle it.
Tomorrow we get to spend the day enjoying church with our brothers and sisters from Calvary Chapel Caneille. They asked me to share, so keep me in your prayers. I plan to share Jesus' parable of the sower.
Early Monday morning we will be heading back to Port Au Prince. From there most of the team will head back home, a few of us will be staying to do some more ministry which we will tell you about when we get there. The internet should be a little better when we get there so we plan to post more often and hopefully upload photos. I plan to have Dylan or Mike post, they can tell you about the mud hut they were invited into where they witnessed a woman giving birth on a dirt floor! They were able to pray for the family right after... the pictures are pretty surreal.
-Pastor Joshua
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