Day Two

Chris and I started the morning off with children's chapel which consisted of 75 children singing their hearts out. An hour later we joined the rest of the group for normal worship. Well, normal for them at least. The music was accompanied only by percussion, trombone and a saxaphon. This may seem like they were lacking musically however the congregation made up with their enthusiasm and praise while dancing and sing like no other. After Paul gave the sermon, which Pierre translated, we sang "Here I Am Lord". Later in the day Chris was able to teach it to some of the teens and thye reciprocated by teaching her the Kreyol words.Worship was followed by the the enthusiastic greeting of 150 of our newest friends and the renewing of friendships from past visits.  After church we proceeded to begin scoping out our projects and begin the process of filming a tour of the school. Reeny, who is an educator, also gathered a group of Haitians from the ages of 4 to 16 to teach an English lesson which a couple of us sat in on to help the pronunciation of some of the words.  Today my family and I also had the joy of meeting our newly sponsored child. It turns out that I know her younger sister form my previous trip in June so it was good to make the family connection. In addition to that we also got to meet her mother!  Tomorrow the projects will swing in to full gear with chemistry classes, trips to the medical clinic, craft projects, computer lab set up, and construction in numerous areas.  Also here our some words from a fellow group member Dave Fetterman: "We Are One." Thoughts from Haiti I went to church today. Nothing astonishing about that -- except that the service was in Haiti, not Upper St. Clair. More interesting still -- at least to me was that I understood very few words and when I prayed and read scripture I had to have an interpreter. Yet, over and over again from start to finish a scripture passage recurred in my thoughts during that service: "There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus." (Galatians 3:28) Despite the miles between us, we are truly one because of God's love.

Prayer Requests  Today's requests are for.... good health so we can continue to work unity as we work side by side with the Haitians clean water for this country as that is essential for so many reasons