SVCC Healing Haiti Trip Day 1 – Travel Day
Well we made it. We are here. Our day began at roughly 3am at the Minneapolis airport. Now, fifteen hours later, we are sitting in our beautiful and safe guest house in the city of Port Au Prince, Haiti. Our team of fourteen travelled well. We encountered few issues, save being forced to wait an hour for Starbucks to open.
Everyone arrived safely. Everyone got along. Even before we left for our first destination new friendships began to form. Ask Steve. Not even to our first gate and he discovered the dangers of saying yes when your girlfriend insists you bring her stuff animal named “trunks” on a trip with someone like me.
Hours later we arrived in Haiti. The excitement built even as the hot humid Haiti air hit us when we exited the plane. We hopped into the back of the “TopTop,” the truck which will be our mobile home for the next eight days. The Top Top is a silly little flatbed of a box that looks like an ice cream truck but one that hauls people.
It took us a few miles over roads good and bad and terrible to bring us to the Healing Haiti Guest House, our home away from home for the next week. Here we sit, some out on the patio, some on the couches near me. All around the house I hear laughter and praise, joy and faith building discussions. As much fun as we are having, we are all very tired, and more than a little excited about tomorrow.
Today we have settle in to a new place in a foreign country. Tomorrow we learn what we came here for when we head out into the poorest parts of the city and truly begin to do God’s glorious work. Tomorrow we learn why we are actually here. Tomorrow, we really meet Haiti.
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