Last Day at Desire

Today started with a visit to Jan Thompson's orphan home called Christopher's Hope.  The kids performed several songs for us- another incredible blessing to this team.  A new experience for me was meeting two of the children who have special needs- one was a deaf boy who in spite of his disability had incredible energy and a warm heart that made us laugh.  The other boy- Marvins has AIDS.  Both of his parents presumably died from the disease. All of the other kids are earthquake orphans.  We were happy to spend a little bit of time with them this morning.
In the afternoon we went up to Desire which would be our last time together with those kids.  The Bible story included a gospel presentation done by Ryan- who afterwards was called a little Billy Graham :)
Much of the afternoon was spent writing down names so we can remember to pray for the kids by name.  Kennedi had kids write their names on her shirt with a Sharpie which then kids wanted to write their names on her skin and stamp her arms- all because they could see it on her skin as compared to their own.
Another highlight was taking most of the team down to the miracle source of water that is sustaining the kids and those in the community.  The spring reminds me of Jesus' description on living water that when you drink- you will never thirst again.  A fitting picture of the Lord providing living water for the orphans.  We took off from Desire a bit sad but completely filled with blessings from the children.  And I can say our team was a blessing to them as well.
There is much more to process from this trip and I plan on going deeper with recalling the experience over the next week and will include my thought and prayers from this experience in later posts.
Tomorrow we head back to Port au Prince with a stop off at a beach where two members of our team will be baptized- Kennedi and Autumn.  I am excited for them!