Day 3 - 100% Servanthood

Today was designated 100% Servant Day which included a number of projects to which the team divided and conquered.  First team which included Tom, Scott, Richard, and Ken, took out the old kitchen cabinets and replaced them with new kitchen cabinets.  Team Two - Sarah, Debbie, and Christine - painted the exterior of the veranda and the trim.  Team Three - Jim, Liz, and Greer - undertook the painting of the depot.  Finally, Team Four - Linda, Yvette, and Saron - inventoried and packed medical supplies for an upcoming mobile med team, as well as school supplies.

Our work day started at 8:00 and ended at 4:30.  The weather was unusually overcast and cool which certainly made working conditions far more tolerable than years past (sorry to hear about the cold weather for those of you in Virginia, Maryland, and Minnesota).  The kitchen project and the painting will continue tomorrow.  Hopefully our bodies will recover overnight to allow us to continue working!

We continue to have a lot of fun and enjoy each other's company.  We are all very glad to be contributing to this particular ministry of the Lazarus Project.  The Lazarus Project, for those of you that don't know, include the Village of Hope School, the health center, and Hope House.

For dinner we had pumpkin soup.  Pumpkin soup is pureed pumpkin (pumpkin here is not like pumpkin in the U.S.) with potatoes, spinach, pasta, and beef.  When there were slaves in Haiti, the slave owners did not allow the slaves to eat pumpkin.  Upon Haiti's independence in 1804, the slaves began eating pumpkin stew on New Year's Day and Independence Day (January 2nd).  They had the last laugh!

Tonight's devotion was based on John 13:1-17 where Jesus' washed the feet of his disciples demonstrating the importance of service and love to others.  At the end of the devotion, feet washing was performed by Saron and Liz while Debbie prayed over those having their feet washed.  Saron shared with us that this was a custom in her home country of Eritrea as visitors came to their home and when her parents returned from work each day.  The experience of feet washing became a part of many unique devotions that we have had in Haiti including the imposition of ashes and communion.

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