Packing Party

Saturday our team of 17 met to pack suitcases with supplies as we prepare for another trip to work in LaCroix, Haiti! This trip we will focus on food distribution, construction of lab desks in the high school in LaCroix, vitamin distribution and health education. Each afternoon extra curricular activities for the youth will take place. This will include soccer, basketball, painting silk scarves, and learning English.

Working hard to pack the bag to the airline limit of 50 lbs.!

I'm so excited about this team! With six adults and eleven teens the energy and dynamics will be out of this world! In this group, only my parents and I have been to Haiti and we will be the leaders. Some in our group have never traveled internationally and some have not done this type of mission work before but I can easily say that all of us feel called to take this trip and are eagerly awaiting our departure on Saturday. We worked well together as we packed sports equipment, construction supplies, art supplies, musical instruments, items for the nurse that we will work with, and the food items that we contribute to the mission for our meals. This type of unity is a good sign for how we'll be as a team in Haiti!

It takes skill and determination to pack a trombone!

Because this trip is over the American Thanksgiving holiday I am especially excited that we will be doing a major food distribution. There are many people in Haiti that are hungry a good amount of the time but this summer's drought in combination with the hurricanes this fall have made food resources and costs even more challenging. The food distribution has been generously funded by Westminster Presbyterian Church and a few friends of the church.

We are very grateful for Pastor Pierre's help with the planning and determination to see this trip through. Pastor Pierre leads the mission in Haiti and is easily one of the funniest, most hospitable, God loving men that I've ever met. I'm sure I'll be writing more about him in the days ahead. 

Today's prayer requests:

• safe travel,
• good health throughout the week,
• continued team unity,
• that we do the work that God would want us to,
• that the suitcases with all of those supplies arrive in Haiti when we do!