Sunday

Today started early with Richard taking Wilfrid and his sister to the bus station. Wilfrid came down here from the NOrth to check on family members and bring his sister back to her mother's house.
I got up and started making chicken soup with chicken that had to be cooked last night before it went bad. I tried to make a huge quantity even though there wasn't that much chicken, judging from the number we fed yesterday.

We went to church and had a good time of mourning, hearing testimonies, thanking and praising God, singing and praying. After that it was ambulance duty again. One young lady was not sick enough to get help today :(. We took another young lady who had a badly injured foot to a hospital.

Oh, by the way, Sophie really went to church today. She seemed kind of excited when she left. I think she had to go by herself. As it turns out she could have come with us becasue our "English" church had a bunch of non-English speaking people in it today who don't usually come, so we had a bi-lingual service. It was a bit of a free form service and Richard led the congregation in a few hymns. Both he and Pastor Bobby did a great job of allowing people to mourn, but also helping us to see the bigger picture of God's work. For example, Richard shared what he had heard on the news about Senegal in West Africa. Senegal, being the place where more slaves left Africa than any other place, is offering part of their country to the Haitian people to start a "Little Haiti" over there. Very interesting considering their is only one foreign missionary we know of sent out by a Haitian mission agency and he (and his wife) are in Senegal. Also interesting that that part of the world has been becoming more and more Islamic...seems like God wants to put some Haitian Christians over there.

We came home and dished out soup to everybody who was here and ourselves.

After that we went back to church to see the distribution of food being done by Convoy for Hope. It was well organized. Many people got a package of instant rice and soy and a water bottle. The Book of Hope was given to them as well. The group gave out food yesterday and will do the same tomorrow, too.