Church and Port Au Prince

Today was a great day. This morning we went to church and worshiped Haiti style. It was crazy awesome. The singing was amazing. God's presence was there and we felt it. It was overwhelming. They had a choir there that walked 3 hours that morning to get to the church. They were great. We loved every minute of it. 2 little boys even climbed into two of our team members' laps. It was very precious.

After church we were able to take a tour of Port Au Prince and a few orphanages. I don't even have the words to describe the devastation that we saw. There were so many collapsed buildings. The tent city, which used to have about 5,000 people living there even before the earthquake, now has about 60,000 people there. Little children were coming up and asking for food or for $1 U.S. We just had to keep saying "no" because if we would have given one child something then we would have been mobbed by the rest of them. It was really sad to see. I'll post a bunch of pictures, but they won't even do justice to actually seeing the scope of the issues in Haiti.

The last part of our day involved 2 orphanages. The first is run by MTM and does not allow any adoptions. The kids there ranged from 7 to 13 I think. They were so much fun. We gave them bubbles, balls, and suckers. They even sang for us. The second orphanage had about 6 children. The primary focus was to adopt those kids out to Christian families. They were cute as well. We loved our time there as well. It was sad, but also heartwarming day.