VBS - Awesome!

It's been three years since the Village of Hope has incorporated VBS as part of our program of serving here in Haiti.  This outreach to the community is serving VOH, as well as the community, well.  We have been very excited about this addition to our service in Haiti.  As part of this outreach, we include interpreters as part of our team.  Today we had five interpreters who are young and passionate and really get the kids excited about our visit and about our faith.  Our team lead off today with a skit, The Three Wiseman.  Our performance may not have been Oscar material, but the feedback from our director and the local pastor was very positive! Everyone got something out of our skit!  Following the skit, we separated boys and girls.  The boys participated in various sports ministry programs lead by our interpreters and supported by our team members.  The girls started out with the arts and crafts. They decorated crowns and colored pictures of the Wiseman at the manger.  After a while, the two groups switched.  An interesting difference between boys and girls, was the girls when they received the crown, were quick to want to decorate it while the boys were quick to place it on their heads.  You make your own interpretation of what that means.  A highlight for our team is then providing a meal of peanut butter sandwiches and kool-aid to the participants and a goodie bag at the conclusion of the program. It was an awesome morning!

Following VBS, we returned to Village of Hope and had our traditional meal - peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and Pringles.  Then we scattered to work on our various tasks - staining, benches, and painting.  While it was much warmer today, there was low humidity and a great breeze that kept us cool enough. We are happy to report that we are 90% done with our projects.  The plan is to complete them Thursday and Friday.  As we headed back to the truck to leave Village of Hope, Saron was summoned by Yvette and Christine.  They had found a goat tangled in its leash and it needed freeing.  Saron saved the day and got the goat freed!

We returned to Hope House, tired and sore and joyfully enjoyed fellowship which included Prestige, peanuts, and reflection on the day.  Oh, yeah, let's not forget showers!  During devotions, which is always a time of enrichment, we were surprised to realize it's day four of our trip!  Thank you for keeping up with our blog.  We enjoy sharing our adventures with you!