A May Week-End at La Gonave

Quick trips are often stressful! 

But, this one was just what we needed it to be:  a first-hand taste, albeit limited, of Haiti.  From the dirt airstrip landing of the 6-seater airplane from Port-au-Prince, 

                          to life in the Wesleyan compound,  

to experiencing the early summer HEAT ...    

                                                   to loving on the happy kids at the orphanage,

to touring the Wesleyan hospital with the outdoor cholera ward,

 
       to meeting those who were faithfully serving the Haitian people through the Wesleyan church,
 

 
we got a taste of life on the island of La Gonave. 

When seeing homes on the salt flats, 

                 we were reminded that kids will be kids

no matter where they live;
                                                                                




 

                                  and the hand slap game is a favorite in La Gonave, too!

As we flew home after our Haitian week-end, we saw the country not through the lens of television cameras or a reporter's take on a devastated and hurting country, but the technicolor shots in our memory banks of beautiful people in a land of great need ..

..... and God began a work in our hearts.