Life in the burbs

        I have been in Jacmel for 3 weeks today, I truly believe that God is working in me and through me not to change Haiti, not to change Jacmel but to serve and change the people I come in contact with. If I can lend a helping hand wherever they need help they can be freed up to have a moment to themselves, which is most important in the ministry field.
        I am spending the week with Restore Haiti, in a burb of Jacmel called Morne Oge, it's about 3 miles up a dirt road (I can barely find it my self on the moto). The population is around 400 people but there is considerable more people in the surrounding area. Restore Haiti (has 3 people running it state side) in partnership with restoration ministries are concentrating their time and energy on building up one community, one child at a time. Pastor LaFleur heads up the church and most of the activities of the community revolves around the church.
        On Monday, I got to the motel where they were staying, so I had to give Pastor LaFleur a ride to Morne Oge on the back of the moto. We got to the Pastors home and had breakfast, and went to the Clinic and the Clinic was very interesting, it was small and right by the dirt road. Dr Rufus, he is from Nashville Tenn just like most of the team, was trying to see 200 kid in 3 days, just the basic check up. He found at least 2 kids with heart defects, and lot of cavities and other misc medical problems. The joy for me was the kids waiting to see the doctor, there was 80 to 100 kids running around playing with the team. They were just big hams in front of the of the lens, the camera was working overtime, I shot 300 picture that day. My shirt sleeve was been tugged on by all the kids saying "foto, foto" and I couldn't resist, when they saw the foto they laughed and giggled, awesome day

The church

Clinic

The girl on the right, My fav

My favorite lady

            Thay also had a daily feeding program for the kids, you want to see a sight, have a 100 talking kids in a small church, I have a video, you be the judge On my FB page  

Construction junkie

      We had to say our goodbyes on Thursday morning, for 12 days I felt a part of Valley View Alliance Church,  I was adopted into the team and they made me an honorary Canadian, how cool is that! I'm glad everyone got back in Newmarket at 3:00 in the morning and had a welcoming party cheering you home. I will miss everyone and now since your back you have facebook and email to keep in touch, Thank you again for the good times.
      On Thursday, Friday and Saturday I did construction on a operating room for the CCH clinic in town, framing and drywall, I will spare you the details. I was working with the medical director of CCH, very nice man.
       I moved into Jeffs house on Friday for the next month and it's a really nice house. This house is in the outskirts of town, before 10:00pm we have music blasting, the Island music man, brought to you by the neighbor across the street. After 10:00 the noise drops off and at night when you go to sleep, it is pitch dark, no lights at all, the first nights' sleep was a little freaky.
      I went to the chicken lady for the first time myself, it was good, 150 gouds( $3.75). This communication gap is hard to get over. I'm learning a little but not enough. Jeffs' friend came over last night, Dudley is Haitian and speaks very little English, so you can imagine what our communication looked like! We both had a Creole---English Dictionary, notebook and plenty of time, in 2 hours of almost no talking, we know each others name, we are both single, why I'm not married I think he has a brother up in port that I don't know for sure, I guess we communicated well enough to go to the beach at 9:00 today. So we went to the beach, about 10 miles away, I didn't bring any money so we couldn't get in, which I didn't know you had to pay for the beach, so no beach. I sat around today read the Bible, took a nap, and now getting ready to go out to eat with three of my friends. Good times.......          Scott

Jen

Some of the Canada team waiting for the bus

Ben

Street in Jacmel

Loving Light Motel

House that I'm sitting

All this food for $3.75

Ants are incredible 

A little beach we ate at

                         P.S I love your comments, prayers and your encouragement
 

The waves come crashin

        I'm sitting in Isaiah house common area, Wednesday night and I have a iced coke in front of me, it's raining and some what cool, ahhhaa  the simple things in life when your in Haiti, I'm in Heaven. I just got back from Jeff house, we had chicken from the chicken lady, their leaving in the morning for the whole month of Sept where I will be staying for the next month. I  got caught in the rain coming back could not see a thing, I knew God was watching over me.
         The first half of the day I went to the CCH clinic to look at doing some framing and sheet rock in  the new operating rooms, start on that job tomorrow. I then drove the moto to Raymond and hooked up with Valley View to work on the fence and I saw the girls in the other truck and they were going to a orphanage in town.
       I realized when I got there I had my flip flops on, not the best choice for doing work on jagged rocks, so I played supervisor for an hour.  When I got to the fence line, they had carried 4 bags of cement and water to mix concrete to pour in the fence holes. We left and had lunch

         Ian, the HFL team leader, said everyone was going back the the dreaded fence after lunch. Ian had a plan to trick everyone to think we were going to work on the fence, in reality the Beach again. We got to Raymond, everyone gathered around see how hard of work this afternoon was turn out to be. Ian explained how tough this afternoon would be and who ever didn't want to work on the fence you had 30 sec to get to the beach. Everyone looked at each other in disbelief and they were gone in a flash. To the beach we went for couple hours and relaxed, watching the waves crashin into the shore. Good times

          On the way back from the beach, we stopped by the house we worked on  the first couple days they were here     

The whole crew

Giving gifts