Greetings from Haiti! After a long day of traveling, we’re
finally sitting safely in the WALLS International Guest House. Thank you for your prayers. God was gracious in getting us to Haiti
without a hitch! Everyone still has their passports, Leonard was right on time
to pick us up from the airport in Port Au Prince, and Mrs. Isbell continues to
rattle off French left and right. She simply cannot contain herself, and we are
SO thankful for her and Nicole’s gifts of language. The hardest part of the day
was honestly waking up at 4am. If that’s the worst of our problems, we’ll take
it! The team has bonded together quite nicely. Everyone here is ready to work, but anytime you walk into a city like
this, it’s easy to get overwhelmed in thinking you can’t even make a dent in
the problems here. Since we had a bit of free time upon arriving to Port Au
Prince, we decided to drive around the city to see if anything had changed
since last year. We were greeted by many of the same things, endless trash in
streets, the smell of sewage and exhaust, blank stares, and poverty. At the same time though we saw a thriving
marketplace, solar lights installed in various places, shrunken tent cities,
and a very busy, vibrant atmosphere. After
sitting in reflection this evening at Bible study, dwelling on what we had seen
and heard just in the few hours we had been in Haiti, we all agreed that spiritual
warfare was very real and very present. We reaffirmed as a team our mission of
empowerment; coming along side Haitians to enable them instead of doing
everything for them. Please pray for us, that we would die to ourselves every
day this week and that the love of Christ would shine through our individual
actions so that this land can see the glory of God in the midst of the rubble. We
are super pumped to have this opportunity of ministry and we hope and pray that
we will be worthy carriers of the gospel to which we are called.
- John and Mr. Weiss
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