Second Sunday

This morning the team sleeping in the men's dorm was awakened to the tune of Arise, My Soul Arise, by the music group Glad.  By 6 AM the guys were getting together with the new Haitian friends for final pictures together. 

This was somewhat bittersweet as some of us in the photo might only ever see the others in eternity in Heaven.
Next the bus was loaded and nine of our group headed for home while the remaining four of us stayed behind.

/by the time you read this some of them will be past their final flight and on the ride from Reagan National Airport to the meeting place at Friends In Action, near Middletown, PA.  Others have had cancelled flights and will need to overnight in New York.  The joys of flying...

Tom, Gene and Gary were picked up by a man from Mission Of Grace in the nearby town of Carries.  When we pulled into the destination we were surprised to find we were at a 4 or 5-star resort on the ocean.  Haiti certainly is a mixture of rich and poor.  Obviously the group with the mission was only staying at this hotel and we were then escorted on a walk across the highway to the "other side of the tracks".  The mission is constructing a center that will minister to Haitian men and children and mentor them.  They already have an almost finished main building and also a small dormitory for workers to stay in.  They need power for the facility and will utilize generators until a more permanent electrical power source is created.  The mission has two properties and we at I-TEC may well be involved in both locations.  It was good to meet the Manager of the mission, Matt. 

Tomorrow the four of us will be working on a Punch-List that we have created to finish the electrical work here at YWAM.  We would appreciate your prayers for our safety and that the work will go smoothly.  It looks like we may have several days of work.

Internet is very slow here tonight so I will not be able to post other photos.  Hopefully tomorrow the base Internet here at YWAM will be back up and things will operate much faster.  Anything seems faster than this modem stick I am using right now, but it does work.

As this blog winds down in a little over a week I might do some serious reflecting on all that has happened here and on how God has done far above what any of us can imagine.