Back Home

It's now Thursday morning and I'm just getting around to catching up on updates.  We had a busy last couple of days preparing to come back home.  On Tuesday we went up to Desire to say our last goodbyes to the kids.  That is always a tough time because it seems we only just arrived and began rekindling old friendships and many making new friendships.  But we closed our time praying for the children of Desire and Pastor Jeannot also prayed as he gave thanks for our team making the long journey to spend time with the kids.

When we arrived in Port au Prince we had the chance to visit with the Pathways students from Desire. They had been anticipating our visit for weeks and we had the chance to catch up with the and hear how their experience is going with the program.  The time was short but on a very deep level it was meaningful to them and to us.  The gravity of seeing these students being transformed from orphan to thriving young adult is astonishing and I wish there was an easy way to put it into words.  My prayer is that every orphan has an opportunity like this when they reach the age of adulthood.  That's a very big vision- a God-sized vision but one that only through God's provision could happen.  Seeing lives transformed is an incredible encouragement for my own faith journey.

Yesterday before heading to the airport we had the opportunity to see Life SA.  This is the facility that manufactures clothing in Haiti and is also where t-shirts and other clothing apparel and accessories are created (http://goex.org/ ).  This was amazing to see because there are currently a number of this past year's Pathways graduates working at this facility.  You can see the photos below.

After a long journey from Haiti back home, our team is now resting after an amazing trip and I am excited to debrief and hear how God has impacted them individually and what He has placed on their heart for a next step of action.  I encourage any of you ready this blog to ask lots of questions of our team because I know they would love to share how God used them this past week.