Hello all, this is Jon. On Thursday and Friday of this week our team ventured into one of the poorest villages in Haiti. It's name is La Grange which means 'The Dirt.' Many of the children and women were malnourished. They had malnourished bellies, so their hair was orange and they kept patting their bellies asking us for food. I don't know if I have ever seen people so in need of fresh bread and water. And as I walked around the village I began to pray 'Lord these people need Fresh Bread and Fresh Water. You are the bread of life, would you bring them sustinance and pure water Lord.' I was asking the Lord to manifest food because I have never seen a people so in need of it.
Our team was there doing kids programs and home to home getting to know the people and gathering information. One of the things that was heart breaking is that they make dirt cookies,which is basically dirt and butter mixed together. There's a rumour amongst them that this gives minerals they would not normally get, but it mainly gives the children stomach aches and other health problems. As Tami and Andrea, another team member, went around, they met a grandmother whose 2mth old grandaughter is severely malnourished because her mother can't produce milk. After they prayed over the baby girl, the mother walked in with 1/4 bottle filled with cow's milk...probably unpasteurized. I was so proud today, while we were at the grocery store in St. Marc, Andrea bought milk to give the baby.
At the kids program the first day there was roughly 100 kids. The second day there were 200 and only 8 of us leaders with two translators so normally in Toronto, this would be illegal! However as we did a play about Jesus ("Jezi" in Creole) all of the kids laughed and loved it. We then prayed over each child individually, praying and propheysing over them...they also got animal balloons and their faces painted. I kept thinking that is was an amazing privilege to be doing pure religion. As Jesus said, "Pure religion is this: that you take care of the orphans and widows." One thing that was sad at the kids program was that many of the children didn't have clothes to come so were naked, and many had embillical cords still hanging off there tummies because they were not cut off properly. There are so many needs in this community: food, water, clothes, medical and cleanliness just to name a few. All of which as I said before I prayed that the Lord would bring into the community. And I am happy to say from tomorrow to Wednesday we are doing food distribution in La Grange and I am going to pray that as Jesus fed the four and five thousand that the food we hand out will be miraculously multiplied to sustain them until their rice crops can be harvested. I am also praying that some way fresh water can get there because the ground is too salty to dig a well. As soon as you throw a bit of water on the ground salt crystals form. Pray for this community, pray that the light of Jesus would shine forth brighter than ever and pray that the basic necessities would come in for the people. He is moving here and will continue to. Peace,
Jon
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