Thursday, June 30th: Our Final Full Day in Haiti and a tour of Port-A-Prince

                                                                 Showing Haitian pride, the country's flag waves in the morning breeze

                                                                               Team Leader Steve helping make prayer journals at the orphanage

                                                                  A collasped church in downtown Port-A-Prince, just the walls remain

                                                          The tent cities where many Haitians still live after the January 2010 earthquake

                                                                                                   View of Port-A-Prince from the mountains

Thursday, June 30^th

Today is our last full day in Haiti. We visit an orphanage that works with 17 girls. During our time at the orphanage, we have crafts and the girls sing songs.  Interestingly, many of the Haitian children love to sing Disney songs such as the Lion King’s “Can You Feel the Love Tonight.”  After our visit, we go to a larger food court restaurant and have pizza. Pastor Maxeau wanted to show us how the food court and the “American foods” served there. It was a great treat for his two children, Alisha and Fred and their cousin Kenya to join us.  The team agreed that having pizza in a food court today will help us to prepare for our reentry into American on Friday.  Our tummies have been quite blessed during our trip with good food, but we will have to return to eating American food soon.

A great way to process our trip was the tour of Port-A-Prince this afternoon and seeing some of the earthquake’s devastation.  The president’s mansion was badly damaged and remains closed.  The largest Catholic church in Haiti almost completely collapsed. We took pictures of the remaining walls.   We got a mountainside view of Port-A-Prince before heading back to our lodging to start the “reverse packing party” to prepare to return tomorrow.

Indeed this has been a trip that has given us insight into the needs of Pastor Maxeau and his church.