Sunday a Day of Rest

Yesterday was Saturday. We worked in the morning and into the afternoon. Then we went out into the town in the evening.

We continued to paint the exterior of some of the buildings. we nearly have the repainting of all of the buildings complete, just one and a half to go. We started to paint the inside of the dinning hall too. It was a dark blue before. We painted the top half yellow, it makes it a lot brighter inside now. It is amazing to see how much the kids want to help. The older ones and the younger ones want to help improve their home. We do let the older ones help us paint, and the enjoy it a lot. We do not let the younger kids help because we do not want them to get paint on their clothes because they cannot afford to replace them it they get ruined. It is a little weird at first because we start working, and then the kids join in, and then we do not have enough tools for us to continue to help, so we either have the kids take turns, or move on to another project.

Saturday night our group went out to eat at La Kay (The House). It is a place were a lot of Americans go to get some American food. We were able to take about 7 of the kids with us. They do not get to eat out much at all and so we wanted to reward some of the kids that have been helping us with the work. Most of us got cheeseburgers. It was a nice change from the Haitian food we are getting at the orphanage (it is still good though). 28 of us ate out for 368 US dollars, so it is about the same price as back home.

Today (Sunday) we got up early to go to worship. We took all 62 kids from the orphanage. They go every week. It started off with a Bible class. I went to the mens class. It was 2 hours long, and it was all in Creole, so I did not understand a word. I pretty much sat there and read parts of my Bible, until class was over. Then we went downstairs for the service. They sang some songs, and although I did not know they words they were singing, I was able to recognize some of the tunes, and sing along with two of the songs. To God be the Glory and Count Your Blessings were the two songs.

The preacher at the church has a wife who works at the children's home, that is how the home knows of the church to attend it. But they asked our group if we wanted to preach. So Tony gave the lesson for the day. That was nice because I was able to understand the lesson instead of sitting there for another 2 hours. When it came time to partake in the weekly Lord's Supper, they used real wine. It was fine to me because I have done that before, but it was a surprise to some of the younger guys here, because they have never tasted wine before. Over all during the service there had to be about 200 people in the building. It was hot and long, but it was great to see fellow Christians worshiping God.

After worship we came back to the children's home and had a day of rest. I took a well needed nap.Then I played around the world in basketball, I did get womped on, but it was still fun to play. It is almost dinner time, so I will add this post, but I will try to add photos to my last post. If not, I was able to upload a few to facebook under my group, Mission to Haiti.