A full Saturday in Desire

Today was our first day with the Desire children and we wanted to utilize all the time given to us. In the morning we spent time singing and teaching English. This is the fourth trip to spend time teaching English and it is fun to have the children come up to you and proudly reintroduce themselves in English. Many of the older children enjoy practicing on us.

After a break from the heat, we returned to do our VBS portion of our program with the orphan children and the community children. After songs and the story of Jesus and the Centurion, our team spent time playing games with the kids like soccer, jump rope and introducing the game of bocce in Desire.

Our team returned to Gonaives hungry for dinner and time for debrief. We just finished our team meeting after 11 pm. We have some real troopers on this team- willing to go the distance!

Tomorrow morning will include worship at both of Pastor Jeannot's churches in Gonaives and Desire. We were also informed that we are invited to be the guests of honor at a celebration in Desire in the afternoon- not exactly sure of the nature of the celebration but happy to be a part of it. Details to come...