Day 2 in Haiti part 2
After visiting the church at Light and Peace Mission we headed down the road to Pastor Ronald’s Brothers school. His name is Pastor Guerry. He is such a great guy, I’ve known him as long as I have known Ronald. He always has a smile on his face. He is always happy, which is hard to understand in Haiti. 
So the team had a lot of fun with the kids at his school and handed out a lot of toys and candy for all of them. We dropped off a bunch of supplies for the children. We brought simple stuff like pencils and Guerry told us that they had no pencils for the children to use. So what a blessing for them. Here are a few photos. 
Dale trying to explain to the Haitians what a Canadian goose was. Looks like food to them.
We brought baseball bats and balls but they have never seen those before. They play only soccer
This is one of my best friends Raguel who helped us by translating for all the non creole speaking team members. Pastor Chad spent some time talking with all the pastors who were hanging out there. 
All the kids had a great time as so did we, it was really nice to take some time and talk with Pastor Guerry who informed me that he had the chance to stay in Tampa but he really felt God calling him back to Haiti and has been providing or him and his family so he can help the community with this school.
Joan with Pastor Guerry and his wife Guerta
As we left the school and headed back to the bus Kung fu Chad had a bout with one of the local goats.
So from there we headed to “My Fathers House” orphanage to spend some time the 27 orphans that reside there. This orphanage was a dream of mine when I lived in Haiti 12 years ago. My mother became involved and picked up where I left off. They have been renting a building for the last couple of years but will be moving into their brand new facility later this year. I will be visiting the new building later this week. As we arrived to the orphanage the kids were all waiting for us peeking over the wall. 
These kids are so well taken care of and compared to where they cam from this may seem like a palace. The kids were so happy to see us all come and hold them and love on them. The team members were so excited to be there and just play with them and share smiles.
We headed inside where the kids had some singing and dancing for us. One of the songs was amazing and really touched every one of us and I don’t think there was a dry eye in the group. Take a listen for yourself but the impact was being there and hearing it live.
After all the fun at the orphanage we were headed back to the hotel but on our way we passed the orphanage that I had lived at over 9 years ago. I convinced the bus to stop so I could stop by and say hello to some of my friends. As I got off the bus a couple of the girls who used to live there were hanging out at the gate. They recognized me right away saying “Wobear, koman ou ye” which is Rob, how are you? I didn’t remember their names but they quickly reminded me. As I went into the huge compound expecting to see a whole lot of kids that I worked with. When I lived there there were 180 kids at the orphanage. Now when I was walking around there weren’t even one left living there from when I worked there. That was very upsetting to me since every time I visited there were always herds of kids running up to see me. It was very weird to be going back to my home and not any of my family there anymore. They had a full house of kids there just none from when I lived there. So I spent some time explaining to the team where I lived on the compound and how the children lived there. It was very impressive to the team since there is nothing like this all over Haiti. It is like an oasis amongst the chaos of the rest of the country. Sorry I didn’t take any photos while I was in there. I was only expecting to say hi to some friends and continue on to the hotel. When I left there I was a little heartbroken not seeing the kids I really got to know very well. I was really upset the rest of the night. We made it home to the hotel and had dinner and reflected on our events of the day and had a short devotion and got prepared for the next day.
Look for my next post of day 3. One of the most impactful days of the whole trip.
