Prayer for our team (team 5) at the Awakening
On our way to the airport with the 10 team members that are based in KC + Sean
A mountain of luggage: personal gear and supplies
Fort Lauderdale airport
Beautiful
Arrival in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
our amazing place to stay for the night
Croissants and real cheese!!!
Dan & Cindy's picture time!
on our way to Haiti
My first buddy Dan
Ocean
Snorkel...
The border with Haiti
Lake at the border
Everything white with dust from the road
Arrival in Port-au-Prince
All we could do as we were watching it from our bus was to pray for Haiti
Taptap: typical Haitian group taxi
Briefing with Kynada after arrival at Quisqueya
Kitchen area
Shower
Classroom where we slept, after arrival of the other team we had 13 people in this area and 25 in total in the whole class room.
Veranda in front of the classroom
Morning prayer
Supplies
Keeping the compound clean
Times of worship at night
Haitian Gourdes
Alex & Michael, two awesome young man that were helping us as translators.
Boarding a taptap on our way to a tent city
Family we prayed for
This is where they used to live. No one knew how many family members were still buried in there.
Beauty
Quisqueya parking lot with 'our' building in the background.
Arrival team 5.5
Stuff for three teams to go out and serve in other towns for a few days.
Loading everything in the box truck.
Making sure it's going allright! :-)
David! My buddy for four days in Leogane
Ready to go
Bye bye! They went on to go to a hospital in Petit Goave
Arrival at the orphanage/Fleury foundation in Leogane
Our first project: demolish the bakery with a few sledge hammers and two hack saws
The rubble from the houses that used to be at the back of the compound, where we stayed in tents together with the other families and girls from the orphanage that had collapsed as well.
Amen!
Progress
Samson (!) did this for three hours! And then he hurt his finger
Blessed with great food
The most beautiful views were usually at the trash corner next to our tents, where the wall broke down. Isn't God great?!
Trash and beauty
More progress
Inside the back of the compound
View from the back of the compound
Our Sri Lankan UN neighbors. They would chant from 5-6 am in the morning.
Trash heap and our tents.
Tutu, Stevenson and ...
Front wall
The second piece of property, with the collapsed clinic, church, school and internet/computer shop.
Left clinic, ahead the church
Front of the clinic
Pastor Kelly Fleury, an amazing man.
Back of the Church. The bottom level can most likely be saved.
School. The tin roof was stolen after the quake. Later we demolished the walls and cleared it out.
Towards property #3: the girls orphanage
All destroyed, but all girls got saved miraculously as they were in a field to be taught to take care of baby Charlie that day (which was supposed to happen a day earlier)
The house mother was the only one who died. She almost made it out. Bottom right is the hole they made to get her body out the next day.
Razor wire: the clothes line for the girls at the back of our tent.
Concrete slab that we cleared out next to our tent. We often met and ate there.
Neighbors watching us through the breach in the wall.
Front side compound
me
Towards backside compound.
Back of the compound with the church tent (blue). Our tents are at the far end.
Our Sri Lankan neighbors and their water reservoir. They would take long showers and scrape their tongues, like all Indians and Sri Lankans do :-)
The back part of the bakery.
Khetienne
Trying to pull a dangerous part of the roof down.
Leasa and Charlie Emmanuel
Our only shade, except for the Mango tree
Praying for the girls
Worship at night
Praying over the compound and anointing the gates and corners.
The new old well that God opened through a dream.
Church tent and Sunday service
I got to preach regularly throughout the month and I loved it!
It was inspiring.
Medical clinic on property #4. At that time just a piece of land with a few bushes where we had shade.
Team picture at the well
The first week they managed to get one pig tail in my hair, after pulling hard for a long time! The girls loved trying to do stuff with our hair.
Departure
On the way back to Quisqueya
Birthday party and reunited with the whole two CRI teams in Quisqueya
A spa and massage for relief workers. Very much appreciated. Amazing atmosphere where we got to encourage and pray over many people
Joseph the living fan
Helping in a class in Quisqueya with teenagers from Port-au-Prince
Back to Leogane with another group
And back to our project
That's how I injured my elbow. But it felt great!
Our Sri Lankan neighbors were happily watching us. There was nothing else to see for them.
Chappy...
View from our tents
Last piece of roof and Dan
The mango tree!
The pump of the well broke. On our way to the ocean to bathe the concrete dust off.
These Haitian resorts were mostly abandoned
Tarantula that we disturbed in the rubble. Tasty! (no, we didn't eat it, but we could have)
Much progress!
Our amazing, hardworking and humble team leader
Almost finished!
Another bath
Hi!
another trash corner morning view.
This day I couldn't work, I had hurt my arms to bad. So I could focus on prayer, praise and pictures.
Savacienne
Rest and worship under the Mango tree.
Fedya
To Leogane proper. 95% of the buildings is heavily damaged
A new tent for a clinic on the concrete slab that we cleared out!
The kitchen. They cooked for us every day!
Church
My hair is one week longer, so more options!
9 pigtails this week! That is 8 more than a week ago. Amazing how fast hair grows in this climate
Hiking to the hills
Mapu tree.
Everywhere you see tents, even in what seems the middle of nowhere. Trees survive, but solid structures don't...
New life!
Bananana
Another cool big tree
More new life! Just born before we walked by!
Picked up some kids :-)
Up the hill
Praying over Haiti
More young life
Grandma! She loved to dance during worship
Dan imitating Carissa's nap in the sun
The main government building in Port-Au-Prince
Team 5 and 5.5 left. Picking up Team 6.5 from the airport. We took them straight to the orphanage in Leogane, where we stayed for 10 days. Why do I not have pictures of team 6?!
Another hike up the hill
Father and daughter reunited
Praying and singing over the land
Next project: clearing out the school building to make room for tents to restart the school.
Hardworking pastor
Market in Leogane. Don't know why I focused more on the trash than on the people in these pictures!
Up to the mountains
And down, hanging on the back of the truck
Carissa, our mighty leader in Leogane
Carissa and Everett
Amazing what God can do
Property #4: to our surprise this much had happened in two weeks while we were working on the bakery!
Digging the whole for the toilets.
Praying over the boundary. A week later this was a long wall.
Growth of the wall around the new compound, where they were building a new orphanage home for the girls.
Newly dug well
Samson and checkers
Clearing out the last rubble of the school
Hike towards the coast from the school site.
A needed afternoon at the ocean to relax
Glad I brought hammocks!
Add for Crisis Relief Work: come join us!
Taking a medical team to some more remote tent villages
Huge mango tree!
Clinic
Play time with the kids to help them process the trauma
Prayer time
These kids all wanted to receive Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
Huge mango tree again. The kids would almost climb to the top
10 crayons for 8 kids and no fights...
Another beautiful morning
Breakfast and team meeting. Notice the improvements: we got some shade! (but only when the sun was higher :-)
Working on the construction of the new temporary home for the girls on property #4.
ingredients for concrete
Pouring the concrete floor, a bucket at a time...
Progress of the toilets and bathhouse
Big piece of land...
Another hair project. We were all happy with it.
Blessed by One Heart ministries, who treated us to a nice meal and a cool place
Last team picture before team 6.5 left
The (almost) cleared out school
Progress of the wall of property #4!
And of the girls home!
This girl really blessed us by carrying our empty buckets and giggling the whole time as we were having a hard time working in the heat
That's what we're here for!
Sean checking out the situation
Evos smiling! What a miracle!!!
Krista
Wasmita
Buddy #7!!!
Kynada
A break at Sunnybel. Beautiful.
The boys cleaning the seafloor
Nice meal at Epi d'or!
This poor lady definitely needs change! Come Lord Jesus!
Up to the mountains with the five remaining CRI people.
A bit more cold here
Reminds me of India!
'Our' cabin for two nights. What a blessed, simple place.
Leasa and the glory
I wanted to take pictures of butterflies, but they kept flying around, until Kynada prayed for them to sit down. And they did!
Cooking our soup! The cabin was simple. We carried water out of a pool uphill and collected firewood to cook on.
Back in Port-Au-Prince. This so reminded me of New Orleans! (which has many Haitian roots)
Golden streets on the way to Ps. Jean Frere's church
Church. It was great.
Happy birthday!
Coconut vendor at Sunnybel
Sunset at Sunnybel
Our new, precious couple. Yay!
Walking through Leogane as we were going to meet the major again.
At PAP airport.
Walking to the plane
Arrival in Denver: we got almost snowed in...
so the pilot invited all boys under 95 years old to see the cockpit as we waited
De-icing. We took off 2 minutes before the pilot legally could not fly anymore after working for more than 14 hours.
