Cha Che Epi W'ap Jwenn

This past week, we helped to put on a 4 night retreat for over 45 high school students!  Our theme was Cha Che Epi W'ap Jwenn (Which means "Seek and you will find"). We even had our own theme song written and recorded by a friend. They loved it!

Our team worked so incredibly hard to make it all work and I feel so blessed to be part of such an amazing team. Being the first retreat, there were definitely some difficulties, but overall the Lord worked through our imperfections and touched many hearts!

Due to the language barrier, Dave and I did mostly behind the scenes work. This was incredibly difficult for me as I wanted to be in the middle of everything. I wanted to feel like I was part of it all. I felt like I wasn't doing anything important just because I wasn't leading a small group. Praise the Lord, God works through our selfishness and desires to be noticed/feel wanted and speaks to us in everything we do.

It was such a humbling and wonderful experience. It reminded me that humility is a virtue. A virtue that I need to work on! It also showed me that it's okay to take things slow. It's okay to not know everything(the entire Creole language), or to know every person in the town of L'asile in the span of 2 months. Things like learning new languages and building relationships take time.  Everything in Haiti is slow. It is so American of me to come in and expect everything to happen so quickly. Thank you Lord for telling me its okay to go slow and that being behind the scenes is just as an important place to be as any!

Please pray for the youth here and that Christ will continue to work in their hearts! 

Thomas rockin' the microphone!

Haitians LOVE to sing!

E and her best friend Joanna(one of the single missionaries here)

These guys brought Lucy up on stage with them as they performed their song. As you can see, she just hates attention:)