What an awesome day!! We started with Sunday School and church across the street. We met so many people. The Haitian Christians are a warm and inviting people and we appreciated the chance to worship with them. The church filled in steadily and eventually was overflowing with people. Many people watched from outside. Each of us on the trip gave a brief greeting and testimony, aided by Elveus, our interpretor. The most moving part came when a former voodoo medicine man, now training to be a pastor shared his testimony. He shared how difficult it had been for him to turn from Satan and embrace Christ. It is STILL hard for him. He can't make nearly as money now as he did as a medicine man. (sidebar: A voodoo Bokur, or medicine man, is a good paying position as people must pay for "medicines" or other rituals to ward off sorcery). This man, who gave up so much to follow Jesus, was in tears and asked the people for prayers. Wow, that's something you don't see in church every Sunday.
After this, half of us took the children (about 60-70) back across the street to childrens church. They had so much enthusiasm! They sang songs in Creole, sounding loud and beautiful. We helped each of them make bracelets out of beads. The kids loved it! What was 3 hours of worship seemed like 30 minutes! The group that had stayed behind in church saw an older Haitian man tearfully accept Christ! This is the way every church should be on Sunday morning! Everyone was so happy to be there and eager to worship our savior! It is so important to realize that the Savior of these people, who I look nothing like, speak nothing like, and have nothing worldly in common with, is the VERY same Savior for us!
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