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Day 4 on the ground in Haiti: Our team started out the day by taking a tour of the city, the devastation was unbelievable. In the picture you will see a very familiar scene in the background that has been seen on all major news networks, and that is the Palace (equivalent to our White House). Across from the palace there are over 60,000 people living in tents, LITERALLY in the front lawn of the Palace (stop and try to wrap your mind around that for just a second). Every where you look there are a few common things you will always see: PEOPLE, TENTS/SHELTERS, and DESTRUCTION. Driving around is very difficult in the city, because there are still massive piles of rubble everywhere you go (most of them filling the streets).




Towards the end of the tour, the rain finally came. It was amazing to see how fast the streets began filling up with water…and this is A MAJOR concern with Haiti entering the rainy season. Keep in mind the people are living everywhere you can imagine, in tents, boxes, under tarps...and the ENTIRE DOWNTOWN AREA of Port-Au-Prince is a flood zone (so please keep this in your prayers as Haiti enters the rainy season & hurricane season). The rain continued the most of the afternoon which kept our team from continuing on any of our outside service projects, but our team made the best of the situation by making bracelets to be distributed in the evening youth service. Our team (guys included) braided, braided, and braided working hard on our bracelets. Our team caught a slight break in the rain long enough to go out and cut some fence poles (small trees) to try and finish building a fence tomorrow (weather permitting).



At 6pm our team headed down to the church on the campus for a youth prayer meeting. We had an incredible time worshiping & praying together with the young people. At the end of the evening we presented everyone with a bracelet and prayed for them individually.

Our team has been incredible, it is SO HARD to believe that tomorrow is our last day on the ground in Haiti. We have a huge day ahead of us tomorrow!!