Haiti Trip, February 16–25, 2012 — Last Few Days

Bonswa…Kòman ou ye? (Good afternoon/evening…how are you?)…

Sorry for miss­ing the last cou­ple of days for updates. We have a large group here at the Cam­bry guest­house and the Inter­net access been fairly lim­ited. The first half of my trip has been very pro­duc­tive. The team that I have been escort­ing from Shreve­port, LA has cov­ered a lot of ground in the last few days and will be going home tomor­row with many ideas for plan­ning their future trips. Here are some of the activ­i­ties that we have accom­plished since arriv­ing on Friday:

• Vis­ited Bigarouse Children’s Vil­lage and spent some time with the chil­dren and met with the pas­tor to lay out a teach­ing pro­gram for the next trip.
• Vis­ited Dari­vager Children’s Vil­lage and did the same as at Bigarouse.
• Vis­ited var­i­ous his­tor­i­cal sites that will be used to teach the col­lege team
  com­ing down in May about Hait­ian history.
• Par­tic­i­pated in the church ser­vice at Cayes Bon­Berger church.
• Walked through Les Cayes iden­ti­fy­ing var­i­ous cul­tural activ­i­ties to con­tinue
  the his­tory lessons.
• Vis­ited the Port Salut facil­ity to inves­ti­gate the pos­si­bil­ity of hav­ing a group
  spend a month there on site min­is­ter­ing to the community.
• Got to see a lit­tle bit of the Car­ni­val activ­i­ties (image below) includ­ing stuck in a traf­fic jam
  while the entourage escort­ing Pres­i­dent Martelly drove by.
• Took a hike around the Cam­bry facil­ity to iden­tify some areas close to the guest­house where the col­lege stu­dents could get involved in the local environment.
• Vis­ited the Amer­i­can Uni­ver­sity of the Caribbean to explore pos­si­bil­ity for future activ­i­ties that might be able to be worked on.

Car­ni­val Float

Amer­i­can Uni­ver­sity of the Caribbean

As you can prob­a­bly see, these past few days have been very busy and pro­duc­tive. It is once again so awe­some to see God work­ing through team mem­bers and orches­trat­ing so many con­nec­tions and net­works. It will be excit­ing to see where He takes some of these.

We have also seen the Chicago, Las Vegas, Florida team being extremely active in their work here. Yes­ter­day they were able to con­duct med­ical clin­ics at Cam­bry and Cavail­lon. Today they were at Cam­bry and Casa Major. Tomor­row I will be join­ing them in Cherette as the Louisiana team heads back home. We hope to be get­ting some engi­neer­ing work accom­plished on the riverbank.

The weather has been good. We have been blessed with won­der­ful breezes and no rain. This has made it much eas­ier to get around to some of the more remote places that we have been vis­it­ing. I can­not be expres­sive enough of my appre­ci­ate for the many team mem­bers that have given up there time and their resources to be here in Haiti. They may not be able to solve the major prob­lems of this coun­try, but they are bring the love of Christ to each per­son that they spend time with.

Thanks for your con­tin­ued thoughts and prayers.
David Short