Haiti - Day 8

A new week has begun with Team Haiti, and with this new beginning, a new editor of our blog.  Megan Hoose has done an incredible job writing each day!  Tonight the task now has fallen to PB. . . wait!  Give me a chance! Whew . . . thank you!  Here we go!

The day began much as the others.  We rose at 430am to begin our day, the heat and humidity already close friends.  Coffee was made.  Power bars consumed.  Drinking water for the day prepared.  All were in a positive mood and yet we all realized that today Meagan would be making her journey back home - a bittersweet realization.  After devotions PB couldn't find his truck keys and went into a small melt down.  Minutes later upon finding said keys in his back pocket, Carol couldn't locate our apartment keys.  The key to good leadership is . . . knowing where your keys are?

Today the work continued to progress with the roof beginning to go on!

More doors cut and welded.  Elijah is a young man from Michigan who came in last week.

More windows welded, painted and installed.  The woman next to Dot made us a wonderful Haitian lunch of white rice, black beans, and beef.

Too soon it was time for Megan to head for the aeroport.  Here is the "Rochester Connection" of Team Haiti.

Team Haiti with Elijah (far left), Pastor Leon (standing next to Megan), Abilar, worksite boss (standing 3rd from left), and the other Haitian workers.  What a fantastic team of people God has assembled!

Megan at the Airport, about to head home . . . we already miss you tons!!!

I wanted to also post today some pics of Dinecia's family . . .

Dinecia's Mom

Her brother Patrick

Dinecia's Dad

The work for the day continued.  Most of the windows are near completion.  We still have about six doors to construct and install.  Over half of the roof is on!  A productive day of work.

I am actually writing this on Tuesday morning as the internet was down last night.  How we take small things for granted.  Last night while waiting to see if the net would come back up, we experienced our first rain storm.  It rained hard!!

Each day we return home satisfied, dirty, sweaty and very very tired! Some team members can't wait til after their shower . . . 

Some, get through the shower, but as soon as they sit down . . . 

The work we are doing may be hard, hot, and tiring, but God has provided us an incredible sense of satisfaction, that what small things we are able to do, will make a huge impact for His Kingdom.  Please continue to pray for us in these next four days of work . . . until later tonight!