The Joys of Christmas

This week has been such a blessing.  Our last team left on Saturday.  Before they left they got to help us pack up Christmas bags for our school kids, over 300 bags filled with a few toys, soap, toothpaste, toothbrush, a hat, a comb or brush and some candy. On Friday we took them to our schools.  The kids were so excited to get these gifts.  Most American kids would think you were crazy if you gave them a bag of what we call everyday necessities.

Tuesday were headed out early to meet up with a pastor friend and his wife from our hometown.  On the way we saw a guy selling bicycles.  Nicky checked them out and after some rough creole/ english communication he bought the kids their Christmas presents.  They have been riding them non-stop. 
We picked up the Hunnicutt's, Luke and Kristen who have been serving in the Northwest with Steve Revis for a month, and headed up to the Haiti Baptist Mission.  I can usually read a map pretty good but not knowing exactly where I was headed it was hard to read, plus it was in Creole.  We stopped at a look off that Nicky knew of that has an awesome view.  Boy did it ever!  You could see for miles.
We got to the Mission and met a great missionary couple that have only been in Haiti 3 months.  Chelsea gave us a very thorough tour of the mission, then we had lunch.  The high mountains of Haiti have such a different look from the rest of Haiti.

On the way back down the mountain we were going to look for a grocery store, but all of a sudden the brakes lost pressure and we started praying!  Glad we had 4x4 low to keep us slow in the '92  F150 we were using.  The Lord saw us through and we did get to a grocery store, then headed home. 

Wednesday we took gifts to two more schools,  we handed out  t-shirt dresses (that First Baptist Hendersonville made) to a school up the mountain.  Again the kids were so excited to be getting gifts.  The looks on their faces was priceless. The only down side to this was seeing the 10 or so kids that were standing at the gate trying to peer in through any hole they could and get a glimpse of what was being handed out and knowing that we didn't have enough gifts for them.

Thank you for your prayers and support.  We are so excited to be Christ's hands and feet here in Haiti.

Hope everyone has a blessed Christmas!!   Jwaye Nowel! (Merry Christmas)

We will be posting pictures soon, hopefully tomorrow.