Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Valentine greeting from Haiti

My husband called tonight to wish me Happy Valentine's Day. He's in Haiti on a mission trip and it's 90 degrees! It's very cold and snowy here, so he picked a great week to be gone. My daughter trudged through the snow today about noon to deliver his card (and one from the cat). He says he's got lots of photos and a thousand stories to tell. Here is the story of the director of the school in Ouanaminthe where the team is working this week. He told me to imagine the worst possible poverty, and it was way beyond that. They have beans and rice and rice and beans for lunch, but supper has a little more variety.

2 comments:

Carey said...

I hope he has a safe return. Wow, 90 degree weather..that would be nice right about now..it could start melting the 4 feet of snow i have in my yard.

JAM said...

Psalm 41: 1 Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. 2 The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.

We support a little girl in Demesseau Haiti through the Love A Child organization. Our pastor spends one week a month there. The stories and photos are mind boggling. It's poverty on a level we can't really conceive here.