Haiti Day 3

This day we actually woke up at 4ish to leave for our hike to the Voodoo caves at 4:30am to beat the heat. It was a 5 hours long hike through cornfield and grass higher than our heads, up rocks and into the mouth of cave which is thought to go all the way through the mountain. It was so much fun, lots of laughter and stories which I think could better be expressed through a video we are going to make! Before entering the cave there were two boa constrictors in trees right above and I closed my eyes and cried to get inside the cave. Inside the cave we saw skulls from sacrifices of voodoo ceremonies and had bats fly around are heads and we jumped from rock to rock dodging bat guano. When we got back we had devotionals and talked about the common language we could share with the Haitain with laughter and singing as we heard it everywhere we went. This is probably the day when "Mighty to Save" became our theme song and the starting point of it being sung many times a day in front of the Haitian people. In waiting for the heat of the day to pass, we played card games, maffia and chatted about Matthew 5:16 before lunch and Youth group. Youth pretty much means any age as long as you aren't married. We played so many fun games, sang songs, read from Ephesians 4 and during a game rain started to pour on the worship center so much that we couldn't hear anything as it hit the tin roof. The Haitians we use to it, but to the Americans we ran around and played getting drenched and playing slip and slide in the puddles that formed inside the church. It's funny thought because July is known to be the driest month of the year and man did it pour! That night some of the girls got their hair braided and the men's choir came and performed for us! Choir is huge hear and groups of men and women will form groups and write their own songs. It was so encouraging to hear their songs about eternity in heaven and the same language we will share in heaven when we are all there together, as JeanJean translated all that he was saying. I was so blessed by the things they were singing about and to see their joy in the way they sang their songs to Jesus! There is such joy in Christ and such a simplicity his truth that transforms lives!!