Today
began with another fabulous noshing session, the breakfasts here are amazing!
The plans were a day filled with the loving community of Grace Village.
We all piled in the
tap-tap for another fun-filled bumpy ride. Today was market day, so the last
main road in Titanyen en route to Grace Village was loaded with vendors
on each side. The distance between car
to car and sometimes people is frightening.
A little
descriptor about Grace Village, in case you still haven’t checked out the
awesome info about it from the website, it is the orphanage/development created
by Healing Haiti to house the orphans/host family/some staff. They also employ
the local Haitians to build things and in the future to harvest the aquaponic
system. Which is a super awesome growing apparatus that you can read more about
again on their website. This is a very abbreviated descriptor that will
hopefully encourage you to want to understand better.
When we got
there we got a general tour of the grounds and met some of the children. We all
piled in the cafeteria/chapel/school house and FanFan (the in-house pastor to
the kids) led a lesson on the story of Moses. Then we did our part of the
lesson with a little skit, complete with Beth performing as the river that the
baby floated on. We hid little images of Moses and Miriam on the playground for
the kids to seek and find. Had a snack and did a learning activity. We
concocted sidewalk paint out of cornstarch water and food coloring. The kids
loved helping and carrying the paints out to the sidewalk, and painting.
Then, GET
THIS!! They were making lunch for the kids and guess what it was!?! It was
Manna Packs from Feed My Starving Children!!! We're not totally sure but the
boxes had the CR circled on the box and a few of us were "claiming the
fame" of packing them :) (the Coon Rapids location) It was awesome!! A few
of us ate some of it for lunch ourselves!
After lunch the kids seemed to do their own thing back in their dorms. Some
of the crew followed after them to play with them individually, and a few of us
took a "tour" of the grounds.
It was awesome
to have Jeff Gacek (one of the founders of HH) in Haiti during our trip to be
able to share questions and curiosities about Grace Village or Healing Haiti in
general.
I feel so
honored to be a small part of such a huge and purposeful organization. I'm
looking forward to coming back and seeing the progress made. God is doing
amazing things in this small beautiful country of hope and it is very evident
in Grace Village.
We finished off
our evening with an outdoor worship session, led by Jeff, a previous trip
blogger. It was a great day.
Lydia
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