Student Day 2 // A full day of ministry!

Hello! Writing to you tonight is Grace Lukens and Skylar Pierce. Our day of ministry included visitng the home for sick and dying babies, going to Apparent Project, and visitng LaPhare's Orphanage. It was a great day to be filled with God's love through children and to be able to fill God's children with love. 

The home for sick and dying babies is best described as a hospital and temporary home for babies. Parents wait in a line outside to try and get their babies in to see a nurse to hopefully get approved. When we get inside we go striaght to the rooms and pick up a baby (for Grace and Skylar this is heaven!) We help feed and change the babies but most importantly we are there to give them much desired and much needed love and affection. One really cool thing about this place is that parents can and are encouraged to come and hold and feed their babies too! You can tell that the parents are grateful for the care that their babies are recieving. By the end of our time there each and every baby had been held at least twice. What a joy it was to be able to make them smile, sing to them, or just cuddle them for a while. 

Once we left the home for the sick and dying babies, all 17 of us loaded up on to the tap-tap and we headed towards the Apparant Project. The Apparant Project is a way for Hatian men and women to find employment and have free daycare for their childeren while they work. The biggest product they make is jewelery. Everything is hand made, which is very special and requires top notch work provided by the employed Haitians. We got a full tour of the organization and then we had our own time to look around and shop. 

Our last stop of the day was at LaPhare's Orphanage. This was such a fun experience! We brought playdough for the kids to play with and their imaginiations ran wild. What a cool thing to witness the imaginiation of a child taking flight and having the privilage of being present with them. AMAZING! It was also fun trying to figure out how to communicate with the kids with a language barrier. They were so gracious with us and for that we are FOR SURE grateful! We ended our time there by singing a common Haitian kids song "God is so good is so good is so good God is!!" We sang, danced and jumped around and then said our goodbyes. 

God continues to show his faithfulness to us even in the smile of a little child. We are so excited to see what else He does as the week continues! 

Word of the day:

Robby // Edina 

Lydia // Connected 

Skylar // Observing 

Tyra // Smile 

Annika // Cling 

Michael // Impressed 

Sara // Tranquility 

Megan // YES! 

Soph // Inspiring 

Gabrielle // Love 

Chris // Comfort 

Sophia // Individualistic 11

Mitch // Robby 

Steph // Perspectives 

Lea // Song 

Austin // Alive 

Grace // Hum