Debrief & re-entry

Day 4: Our last day... I can't believe how quickly the time has gone... Pastor Guercy picks us up at 7:15 -IN THE MORNING!- for our trip to the airport. There is a LOT of traffic. Our "not so far" trip to the airport takes us nearly an hour. Getting checked-in & going through security was (unexpectedly & pleasantly) easy... so we go upstairs to a cafe area and settle in for our flight to be called. We snack & play a couple of VERY competitive games of Bananagrams.  ;)


Our flight is called and we board. This leg of our trip (to Miami) we are not sitting together... & I guess I'm a little relieved that Jason & Michael can't see my cry as we take off. I am surprised at how I hurt to be leaving here. There is so much I want to do... so many I want to help... I cry because I'm leaving a part of my heart here. I -who couldn't conceive of going to Haiti just a few months ago- now cannot wait to go back!

Terrible living conditions - so many tents & huts.

So much trash everywhere - yet people go through it to salvage what they can.

Standing in line for clean water.

The next leg of our journey home... our flight from Miami to Houston. Jason, Michael & I are all sitting together & we use this time to recap all we've seen & done in our short time here. Our reconnaissance mission is done - now, onto the planning phase so we can come back this summer as a church. I pray that we can instill our passion for Haiti into others. I want everyone to experience the glory of God through serving Him. I believe everyone who goes to Haiti & serves God (by helping others), will fall in love with this place - just like we have!


Re-entry into "civilization" is actually a bit difficult... Back home, it's hard to drive without feeling the need to speed, pass & honk at everyone else on the road! ;) It's really hard for me to see waste & entitlement. I find myself getting angry, knowing how much is seemingly taken for granted here. I pray that we will never become numb to the cries of the poor and that we will be moved to a radical compassion at the conditions in which many of these people live. I also pray that we won't limit God to what we can do or imagine... We need to remember that our God is so much bigger than we can ever know!

 "Christ has no body on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes through which Christ's compassion for the world is to look out; yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good; and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now." ~St. Teresa of Avila Let us be the eyes & hands & feet of Jesus!

Renmen ak benediksyon!
~Laura