Days Five and Six!

I am combining days five and six because I spent them both practically doing the same thing. Other team members did other outreaches but I stayed at the Home for Children the entire day. The girls began school on Monday so they were at school until about 12:30 each day. That was good because it gave us time to organize things that we were planning to do.

Monday morning members of the team spent time at the school preparing lunch for the children. As I said before, I personally wasn’t a part of this but I heard that it was a great experience! From what I understand, the food that was packed in Myrtle Beach through HUG is used to feed all of the children at the school. What a great outreach! Once the girls got home from school Monday we spent the remainder of our time at the home helping homework and Smith did an English lesson.

Again on Tuesday I spent the morning doing random tasks at the home. Members of the team did things like printing photographs for a collage, changing bed sheets, repairing appliances, hanging hardware … etc. Once the girls got home from school they started doing their homework. After that our team spent our last bit of time at the Home for Children just reading books and being with the girls. Mr. Donald and Mr. Joe ventured out Tuesday to do a training session on the Evangacube that Pastor Maxeau had arranged. There were some 100 people in attendance, and after the training session they took what they had learned into the city and 105 souls came into the Kingdom! Praise God!

Tuesday was our last day at the home, and it was very hard for me to say “goodbye” to these precious girls – in two ways because obviously I don’t pronounced the word very well in French! They all giggled and corrected me as they had done the entire week when I would mess up a French word. As a result, I am determined to learn Creole before we come back in March!

Tomorrow we are going on a ‘field trip’ to the Palace, a cathedral and the Baptist Mission. I am very excited!
Love to you all,

Blessings,
Han