Thursday, December 13, 2012


Each night, after returning from our day serving in the city, we gather to reflect. Everyone chooses a word for the day; any single word that summarizes or relates to our experiences. It was hard to pick just one word to describe all that we did, saw, and experienced as a team today. 

A handful of us rose with the sun this morning to attend church in a tent overlooking the hills of greater Port-au-Prince. The service was not conducted in our language or a structure most of us were familiar with, but it was truly incredible.

The afternoon was spent outside of Port-au-Prince in Titanyen where we toured the Grace Village property, from the colorful dorms to the aquaponics. I think the consensus among the team was that our time within the walls of Grace Village left us inspired and hopeful. After a few days of serving in Cité Soleill, at the Children’s Home for the Sick and Dying, and elsewhere it was inspiring to see the good that has been done and hopeful for the good that is inevitably going to be done at Grace Village.

The latter half of the afternoon was spent visiting members of the community in Healing Haiti’s Elder Care program. We arrived with lunch, stayed and sang songs, and left with fuller hearts.

There are a lot of words to describe today. My personal word for the day was moved. As a team we moved in so many ways today. Physically, we moved to church in the back of a pickup truck at the crack of dawn. Then we moved around Titanyen for hours in our tap tap. From one home to the next, we moved as we visited the elderly. Then of course, we were moved emotionally by the events and experiences of the day. We were moved by the children at Grave village and by those in the Elder Care program we are all so blessed to have met. We were moved by the music and devotion at church this morning and the songs we sang in the homes in Titanyen. Yes, today was moving. Tomorrow will be moving as well, I’m sure. Yet tomorrow is a new day, a new challenge, a new experience, and inevitably a new word.

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