Today was our last full day as we prepare to go back towards Port au Prince tomorrow. We started the day with visiting an American missionary who owns and runs an orphan home in Gonaives. Jan just received 5 new children this past week and the kids came only with the clothes they were wearing and just a little more. Our adventure was to go to the market and split up to find clothes for the new children. Jan said it was an answer to her prayer that we were available to help buy clothes for the kids where for two people and five children the task would be very difficult.
For the afternoon we went up to Desire after the kids finished with school. This was to be our last visit for this trip. The community kids were invited to join in and we fed all the kids who joined us for the afternoon. Pastor Jeannot will feed the kids after we leave as well so that they look to the church as the provider and not the Americans. It was a blessing to see so many children at the project yesterday and today. While our church is committed to caring for the 63 kids at the project, we also have a heart for meeting the needs of the community- spiritually, physically, and through education and self sufficiency. We love the model of The Global Orphan Project where the local church is at the center of the project because the church is the hope of the world.
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