June 16 - Our First Full Day



Lifeline Cross at night.  It was painted so it would glow in the dark.  Amazing!




St. Matthew Dam in La Digue.  Originally built in 1930s. Now being repaired after earthquake/hurricane.





Barbancourt School & Feeding Station



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We had to cross over the river to return back to the mission.

"He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked." 1 John 2:6 KJV

We wake early when in Haiti rising around 6:00 a.m. if not earlier, meeting for breakfast at 7:00 a.m. and then meeting for worship, devotions and prayer at the Prayer Rock around 7:30 a.m.  Today we unpacked and organized all the supplies that were donated.  The team took a wonderful, long hike to Barbancourt.  We walked through a few different villages and the surrounding countryside.  The countryside was so beautiful and lush with fruit trees and flowering shrubs.  We were surrounded by children most of the way. We saw The Stl Matthew Dam at La Digue where village children showed off by jumping off the walls into the water.  We surveyed a few homes that we had been asked to consider repairing and met the families living in them. We also visited  the Barbancourt School that Lifeline helped to build and has a food station located there too.  We stayed at the school for quite a while and played with the children. Upon our return to the Mission, some of the team got busy with fixing important equipment around the mission, others dug up plants and transplanted them around different parts of the Mission, cut down dead trees, over all clean up that was needed. Josh was working alongside a Haitian and they were cutting down a tree.  When the tree fell, Josh began to drag it to the burn pit.  The Haitian touched him and said in broken English, "I will take this tree and use it for my home".  That gave some perspective of what we think as trash and they use to construct their home with.  Very humbling.  We had a wonderful dinner and had a time of worship, debriefing and prayer up at the cross.  It was dark but beautiful.  A wonderful day of visiting with the people in the surrounding villages, playing and carrying children, getting a glimpse of how the average Haitian lives, and ministering to our host.  A full day which ended with a heavy rain storm.  Many of us enjoyed the sound of the rain as we went to bed that night.



Hiking to Barbancourt.





Lisa and Dave busy with the planting project.





Jay and Pete working on repairs around the Mission. 





Sunset from Lifeline Cross.