WOW!

It feels like it's been forever since I've been able to blog!  The internet here has been up and down for the last week.  Partly due to the sketchy weather and partly because equipment was just in limbo for a while, Praise the Lord that it looks like everything is figured out and the ministry down here can rely on the net for there own work.  Weather here hasn't really been that bac for us, we've had some rain, more than the area is used to, but it hasn't gotten in the way of life for us.  Also, the winds that have come with the tropical storm in the area have really lowered temperatures a lot which is a blessing.  Please do pray for the families living in the IDP camps.  Rain only make living in tents that much harder.

PRAISE THE LORD!!  On July 15th I aksed that you all would pray for the release of shipping containers on the docks in Port-au-Prince.  The ministry here has been waiting for supplies critical to building projects on our compund.  Last week most of our project took a day to fast and pray for the release of the containers, and the next day 4 of the most critical containers were released!!  Two have already been transported to our compound and are quickly being unloaded and put to use.

Life here has beeen a combination of sharing the gospel at IDP camps, doing working projects on our camp, spending some time at a Christian School in Port-au-Prince sharing testimonies and loving on the kids there, fellowshipping with and being a light to Chambrun, building relationships with our own team and the Haitian students who are working alongside us, and also just building relathioship within our team-the Lord has brought some great people to serve here in Haiti and I'm excited to have a whole new wave pf project friends when I get back to the States. 

So much has happened since I've been able too post last there's so much ot share, but for today I'm just going to let you in on a journal entry from July 21. 

We just had small group time to discuss the "Weh Helping Hurts" article in our project notebook.  We had a really good discussion about how we see the results of broken relationships and "god-complexes" in our lives.

At then end of the discussion, Dana (one of the Haitian students in our discussion group) told a stroy about how she has been seeing God work in here life.  She told us that before the earthquake she was asking God to show her how she could serve Him.  She said she knew that as Christians we are supposed to serve God, but that she was very shy and didn't know how she fit into God's plan. 

After the earthquake, God brought her to this summer project.  Now she said she sees how God can use her.  Before the earthquake she never talked about God outside of her Campus Crusade firends.  She said she was very nervous the first time she went to the IDP camp to talk about God to people she didn't know.  But now, she sees how God can use her in His plan.  She loves telling God's story to people who hae never heard it.

This is by far one of my favorite stories from project.  Looking at the physical and emotional mess left after the earthquake, it is almost unimaginable to think that God can use it for good, but seeinf the spiritual revival that could be possible in our generation, I praying God is raising up a generation of leaders who love Him and are going to love and lead Haiti!