Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Monday, May 4, 2009
more funny team quotes
thank you for all your prayers. today we bought a lot of items for our team projects and mostly planned out our week - but I am sure things will change. i am excited about all the projects we have and can't wait to share pictures and stories. we are getting ready to help out with the feeding program and teach some of the kids Bible lessons, I will have more updates later.
some more random quotes:
internet?
pastors should not use such acronyms
i want the regular one, not the one made of gold
--
Lucas Simmons
Sunday, May 3, 2009
sunday
today we went to church at port-au-prince fellowship. I had goodies for john and beth mchoul, a two day old whopper for john and some candy for beth. I think it's funny how excited john gets about whoppas, especially two day old ones but if i ever moved down here i would definitely have those things that got me excited. worship was amazing... and i am really enjoying hearing how God is changing people's hearts through what they see in Haiti. It's also great to see all these people who in some cases haven't spent more than a few hours together come together as a team. I hear the laughter of our team right now in fact, I must be missing out on something hilarious.
today we also got to surprise alicia for her birthday with lunch at a place here in Haiti. It's really strange how you can go to one part of Haiti and see poverty and absolute squalor and in another such wealth. But then I think it's really not very different from how we live in America. You have Palos Verdes not too far from Compton and bad parts of LA. There is just a more stark contrast here.
then we got to play with the kids for a few hours. volleyball and soccer, mostly. I think everyone on the team is noticing how much joy the people of Haiti have even in the midst of all the poverty. It's definitely an interesting reminder as one person put it when you think about how many people in America are so depressed with so much wealth.
tomorrow the work starts. Please be praying for us and for God to guide us as a team.
I am adding a new segment to my blog, quotes from our team taken out of context:
I'll take trash pits during Jesus' time for one hundred dollars
Stop it or I will bury you alive in a box
New pictures are up from today:
cendy
the first time I came here, she would stare off blankly into space even when I tried to get her attention. now she is all smiles :)
Saturday, May 2, 2009
haiti!
Yes! We are here, in Port-Au-Prince. We almost missed our flight to Haiti because Spirit lost one of our bags. Then the Haiti airport was chaos as usual. Today we got to hang out with and meet the kids, and went to the ravine and helped with a feeding. The worship was awesome. We are all pretty beat and are finishing up our sharing times and getting ready to go to sleep. Excited for church in the morning!
I have uploaded some pics to:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucastheexperience!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lucastheexperience!
--
Lucas Simmons
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