Day 4 in Haiti

First of all, I would like to say Happy Birthday to my husband Randy - I miss you and love you - hope you have a great birthday in the city of Vancouver with all the IBC students. Yesterday, I had quite the surprise at supper. We were eating some sort of spicy  stew and my first bite contained an entire Jalepeno pepper- complete with the stem! I was literally speechless for a few moments and then in some pain - it felt like my tongue was burnt and then my face began to swell a bit.  Eating a banana helped take some of the heat after that.  Scott, one of our team, had the same experience yesterday at lunch as well. I don't know about him, but i am examining everything before I eat it now!

I went to the ladies conference this morning. Lisa Honorat and Cindy (from our team) shared what God had laid on their hearts. The Haitian ladies were very responsive to what they had to say.  The worship was wonderful and God's peace was sweet.

The Haitian women who came to the conference (just under 100) were served lunch in the compound - a meal that the Haitian men prepared.  They started working on it early the previous day.  We could hear them early this morning (well before 5 am) working some more on the meal.  The men had makeshift bamboo dividers set up so that we (the women) could not see what exciting things they were making.  Some of the men where wearing what looked like hospital gowns to prepare the food.

Following the lunch the Haitian women were given gift bags (things like hand sanitizers and lotions, etc that our team had brought with us). Tonight is the couples conference.

Tomorrow some of us will go to the market in the morning, and then join the Haitian women at the beach for the last bit of the women's conference.  We are enjoying wonderful fellowship as a team and with the people on the Haiti Arise compound.  The experience has been wonderful so far.

Michele Krieger