Shelter in Place

Today was a major adjustment to our planned schedule due to the protests. We were required to stay at Hope House for the entire day. While not what we were hoping for, and certainly were sad about the unrest here in Haiti, we are safe and we managed to accomplish a lot of meaningful work at Hope House.

We split into two teams - we had the plumbing group and the medicine baggers. It seemed we were destined to fix the plumbing problems here at Hope House in the kitchen, which was no small task, requiring five or six great minds - LOL. A project that Rob said would take 30 minutes was finished about 6 hours later.

The other team spent time bagging meds for mobile med teams. For those not familiar with mobile med teams, the VoH has a health center and a pharmacy. Part of the job of mission teams is to ensure that medicines are packed and ready for the mobile med teams. They serve about 1200 Haitians in a week in the field.  Preparation is key for these teams.

We listened sporadically to what was happening around the country. There were certainly instances of rioting, however, they were fairly isolated and not near us. We are hopeful that tomorrow we'll be able to return to our planned schedule which is visiting Little Children of Jesus, an orphanage we support, and the metalworks area. It's another opportunity to put money into the economy.

Continue to pray for the people of Haiti as we near the end of our week here. Pray for the long-term interests of the Haitian people and the safety of those near the rioting.