HungryForLifeInternational

08/27/07

Blog readers!!! (a.k.a. friends, family, anyone at all),

This trip is coming to a close, and the last couple days have been great.

Our last day in Dumay was the hottest yet... but we were able to 'call it a day' at 1:00pm. The trusses for school feeding center have been finished and the roof is waiting for it's layer of sheet metal to be finished. We were able to pour the rebar posts for the school into the foundation as well, and the construction will continue to progress on the school building.

On Sunday we worshipped in the Gramothe church again, though this time with a larger congregation... the hurricane from last weekend has long since disipated. It was a great time of worship and reflection. The evening we closed with watching a movie called 'End Of Spears'... a movie with a thought provoking message about missions... get a chance to watch it if you can! We, the leaders, also broke the schedule for today, Monday: Beach Day!

Today we loaded up a 'Haitian' bus... (read LOADED UP)... and headed to Wahoo Bay with the youth group from Gramothe. The two and a half hour trip each way was tiring, but the time we spent at the beach was relaxing. We ate lunch at the restaurant in the resort we visited; a meal that many of the kids in Gramothe have never had the opportunity to eat in their lives. It was also an experience for the Gramothe youth as many have never been to the ocean either!

Tomorrow we rise early to head for the airport in Port-au-Prince. We have two layovers, and fly into YVR at 6:50pm on flight AA 887.

Continue to check out the SAC Trip Blog on the link to the side of this page to find more stories from team members.

Blessings all... will attempt to post more pics soon... if not today then when we get home to Vancouver.

Paul DenHaan
HFL Team Leader

8/24/07


The last couple days have been grueling hot... but it has been AWESOME!!! The team is healthy overall... except for a couple sore throats and a few cuts and bruises. This has been somewhat due to an enforced water consumption of 2L by 10:00am, 3L by the end of lunch, and 4-5L by the time we leave to go back to the oasis of Willem and Beth's home. Some of the team has been downing 6-8L per day.


This is the second time I've published this blog entry... and I'm super tired... even though it's 9:30pm... the heat and the work has us all in bed early... in fact, I'm the last one up...


The pictures will tell the stories of the last couple days:


The soccer group began it's day with prayer before splitting off into teams:




We had the opportunity to participate in a rice distribution on behalf of Rice Raiser International, as well as handing out dehydrated soup mix from Fraser Valley Gleaners:

08/22/07

The last two days have been a blur with everyone working really hard...which has made them fly by. Our daily routine has consisted of soccer in the morning with the kids followed by construction in the afternoon. The days have been long and hot but we have gotten a lot accomplished both in building relationships and in building the school and ajoining cafeteria.

Yesterday (tuesday) saw us playing a few different games of soccer and just hanging with the kids as well as starting to put up the trusses for the school cafeteria and lining the future floor with rocks.

Today we continued with the same activities and also poured concrete onto part of the roof of the cafeteria.

Jeremy Roberts
HFL Assistant Team Leader


Here are the pics you've been waiting for:

The ladies insisted on their own soccer game on the second day!


We figured we'd be continually 'schooled' by our Haitian friends... today we won a game 6-4.



Not everyone can play... but there are smiles and fun everywhere!



Construction begins of the feeding center's cafeteria roof:

08/20/07

It is the end of a long day of working in the Haitian heat... most of the youth group are in bed... 1/2 hour before quiet time. This is merely the result of a busy and productive day. Everyone is too tired to think in cohesive sentences, including me... so I'm going to let the pics here show the story of the day.

First off, here are some shots from our visit to an orphanage nearby that Willem and Beth look after for HFL/Cranbrook Community Team:



The road entering the river... not quite what it's supposed to look like!?!?

That's it for now... it is 10:15pm... 15 minutes past my bedtime... and Aaron and I are the last ones to hit the sack...

Please continue to keep us in your prayers.

Paul DenHaan

HFL Team Leader