The longer Im here the more my eyes get opened up to what life is like for people in Haiti. I was talking to a couple of guys this week, one of them was just 19 he had 6 brothers and sisters and his mum all lived in the same house. In Haiti the people are really loyal to their family and that is pretty much the most important thing to them. So this guy has the responsibility to look after his family because his father is dead and he is the oldest son yet he is still at school but somehow has to find the money to pay for school, for his brothers and sisters to go to school and look after his mother, find money for food to feed his family how does someone do that?Especially when there is no work....I have no idea. And he also spends every saturday at his church running a kids club for over 50 kids on his own.
He wants to be a dentist but it is expensive to go to school and at the minute his responsibility is to look after his family. Their loyalty for their family is unbelievable especially for the oldest son and more so if the father is dead.
 
The other guy had pretty much the same story, 18 goes to school, his father is dead so now he is the head of the house and has to care for his family I think there was maybe 5 other kids, what a big responsibilty for an 18year old.
 
But I don't wanna tell you all sad stories but just give you a wee bit of an idea of what life is like. We had another wee miracle this week, A mother brought her 2 month old baby in, threw him at one of our nurses and he stopped breathing, After a minute of resuscitation they got him back. After 5 or 6 of us prayed, he got some medication a nebuliser and some oxygen and literally within an hour he was much better. Turns out he had croup which is really common at home but could have been fatal for this baby if it wasn't for the clinic. And the baby went home that afternoon. That amazes me, if a baby at home had stopped breathing im pretty sure they would stay in hopsital for more than a few hours!He came back for a check up the next day and that was him, better.
 
Also my translator, Betty wasn't here this week so I had to do it all by myself speaking creole!And it was fine so thank you for praying about picking up the language, I am no where near fluent but I can get by. I am still having lessons and still have so much more to learn.
 
Thank you for your prayers, please to continue to pray for me and for Haiti. Continue in prayer for my patients that I will be making a difference and as I learn more and more language I will get more opportunites to tell people about Jesus. And continue to pray for Haiti, for the Christians here, the best way to change a country is through its own people for wisdom for them, for opportunites to tell peopole about Jesus and for strength. Alot of the Pastors have their own church, have a family to provide for so need to work aswell and are studying at the seminary all at the same time.
 
This weekend is our missionary retreat, so we are having some meetings and tomorrow going to the beach for a few days, so pray it will be a time of rest, a time to spend a lot of time with God and a time to learn and to grow and come back ready to put our all into our different ministries.