Haiti Trip, Thursday, March 28

Prayer Partner of the Day: Chuck Arnold

The wind has picked up immensely tonight! Bill's tent continues to fly through the air and attack my and Meredith and Ben's tents! It's becoming rather humorous. Today, I was able to make it farther through the day than the day before. The team has continued work wonders at "Village De Vie" orphanage. Their loving hearts and servant attitudes has kept them going for long hours, and not once has there been complaint or sadness! Even in the slow moments, the team will find games to play, hair to braid, and odd projects to complete. They really are the "A-Team!"

Jake Sangster, from Coreluv (our favorite orphan project out of Houston, TX), picked us up around 11:00am. I was happy for the diversion, as I had been washing clothes with some of the women and older kids for an hour! My dish pan hands were raisins... I know, I know, I'm a silly weakling compared to the amazing Haitian culture! Jake has been invaluable to us this week. He not only provided transportation from Port Au Prince on Sunday, he not only hauled our luggage, he not only brought us 500 million more water samples from his well, but he also found a guy with a tool to get the pipe out of the well so we could drop the submersible pump. He has been our savior in many regards this week. Today, he took us out to the Myan Orphanage project. The last time I was there was last October, when it was just a piece of empty, barren land. Now, foundations are built, trenches are dug, more ground is being broken, and a reservoir was built! Soon, the foundations will be two dormitories, a feeding center, and the wall for the orphanage. It is truly amazing to see the faith of Jake and his Coreluv associates. In such a short time, they have come such a long way, and their building campaign back at home doesn't even kick off until next week!

My strength doesn't seem up to par yet, as I went back to Max's while the team continued work into the afternoon. It is always a joy-filled evening when they arrive back at the "ranch," and tonight, I broke out the big guns... LEGOS! To celebrate our week of work, we created Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle and Star Wars scenes! Yes, transported back to childhood, with Prestige, we had a great night. It's the last night in the tent! On to PAP tomorrrow...!