This is Leann on our blog tonight to give you an update on day one. Our team has arrived safe and sound in Haiti after a long day of traveling! Our entire team successfully made it to MSP airport by 3:45am and we were lucky to make it to both Miami and Port au Prince without any delays or complications. We made our way through the airport here and headed to the guesthouse. Tonight we spent time as a team talking about our first thoughts after arriving here in Haiti. We all realized very quickly that regardless of how many pictures we had seen or videos we had watched, it was an entirely different experience to see firsthand out the windows of the Healing Haiti tap tap. I don't know that anything could have truly prepared us for what it feels like to see this kind of devastation. Within five minutes of being in Port au Prince it was easy to see an incredible amount of joy in the smiles of people here. While we were driving by an area lined with tents and people living in the most indescribable living conditions, I noticed a sign that said Only Jesus. It is amazing to see the faith people have in Him when so many others would look around and wonder how it is possible to see beauty in a place so broken.
Earlier tonight some of us were up on the roof of the second guesthouse and saw some boys playing soccer down below the fence who started talking to us and asking if we could come and play soccer with them. After a few minutes they started motioning 'water' and looking to see if we had any to give them, I don't know that any of us could have imagined what it would be like to have someone asking for something as basic as water, when we live everyday without ever thinking about where we will find clean water.
Our team's new home for the week. Some incredible photos in the living room at Healing Haiti's second guesthouse that was just built this January.
Tomorrow we have a full day ahead in Cite Soleil out on the water truck delivering clean water to more than 300,000 people in a 5 sq. mile area. The team is prepared and ready to experience our first day in Haiti. We ask for your prayers for strength tomorrow, and also for our hearts to be open. To allow God to show us what He needs to show us, and to take in every minute of the day. God has put together one incredible team down here this week and we are so excited to see what He has planned for us in Haiti. Our team is ready to go with a couple of Clif bars and electrolytes packed for day two.
Ke Bondye Beni'ou
His hands. His feet. His work. His love.
God bless,
Moen & Cody HH Team
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