highs and lows

today's highs:
1. watching Clairmond go through a kids devotional bible and tell us about almost every bible story from adam and eve to the good Samaritan.
2. watching Alex, Schnider, Walgens, and a few others, in our team's business class get excited and dreaming about beginning a business.
3. starting to work on some gardening at the guest house.
4. praying with the Child Hope staff.
5. bible study with the girls.

today's lows:
1. mosquito bites
2. not being able to fit it all in a day
3. missing walking the kids to and from school
4. missing the feeding program again
5. gathering people

it was really cool to go around and share about our highs and lows at our team meeting tonight. great idea lucas! people in our team are being profoundly touched. we love watching that!!

first days in haiti

since we arrived yesterday afternoon i keep looking around and realizing i am going to be here for a whole month. right now im a part of a team of 13, including lucas and i, who are leading. we have been learning SO much through being in leadership. we didnt really ask to be here, but fell in love with haiti and were asked to lead teams, of course, we said yes. its a ton of work and responsibility... but it comes with great rewards! we are almost just like the planes that physically brought us here. lucas and i simply pave the way for people to come to this place and experience what God is doing here. its nothing special. its like planting a seed, watering it in and then coming back a week later and seeing the sprout... knowing you had a small part in it, but taking joy in the beautiful mystery of the growing. peoples lives are deeply impacted, not by us, or anything we do, but by the Lord doing His transforming work of love in people lives.

john mcchouls sermon today was about life. the most precious commodity that one can ever give, because it is the most precious thing we have ever been given. i hope that our lives would be poured out here this week as a team, in sharing, in giving, in being together, and in doing Gods work. and i hope that my life would be poured out into this place over the next month. maybe i wont see big results, like it is so easy to see results a team's new experiences, and projects, but i will plant and water, trusting that God is at work making things grow!

1 corinthians 3:7
so, neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.