Monday

Bonsaw, Marnie here reporting from Carrefour, Haiti, 

We are back in action- hitting Monday, our first day of service, with a little more energy. Today seems cooler, although it could be our body's adjusting to the heat. As our adventure today began, our team split up to utilized our different talents in different ways. Tim, who is diligently studying to be a nurse went to help assist in the medical center, which is run Monday through Fridays, on Grace Village's property. Leah, who is a new friend joining us for the week from Simpson college, is teaching english with different classrooms. Erin, one of Concordia's wonderful psychology professors, split off for a time to collect some research. Then, the rest of our group traveled through about ten classrooms in two schools to teach a short lesson and give out pencils and erasers to the students and teachers.

Both schools are christian, which helped us decide to base our lesson from Scripture. We used 1 Corinthians 10:31, to teach that whatever you want to do, work at it for Gods glory. We had our two interpreters, John Mark and Davidson, patiently helping us teach to the children. First I (Marnie) introduced where we were from and what we would be doing, then we sang "Jesus Loves the Little Children" in English. After that the children sang it to us in Creole. We each introduced ourselves with our name and what we were studying in school, then Nate read 1 Corinthians 10:13. Each student received a pencil and some got an eraser. 

Our last adventure of the day was visiting the boys home that is off site. We were very blessed to be able to deliver some of the donations that were kindly donated by all of you back home. We passed out underwear and soccer balls, as well as a few other miscellaneous items.  It was definitely the highlight if the trip for everyone. We are excited to go back tomorrow and do some painting at the home! Those boys stole our hearts from the moment we jumped out of the tap-tap (Haitian transportation).

We appreciate you taking the time to read about our day, and we all look forward to sharing our individual stories once we're back home.

Don't worry, we can do this, Kim (inside joke).

Au revoir, 

Team Haiti