Hey you!

There are two words that every kid in Haiti knows and that is "Hey you!" Everywhere we have gone in the past week we would see small groups of children and one or two would see us coming and begin saying "hey you" as loudly as possible and soon all of the children would chime in. In many cases they would begin running after the truck. I think it was anytime they saw white people as we were in two different vehicles during the week. One was a very colorful and unmistakable vehicle while the other is plain white and yet to be painted.

We visited Grace Village again today where a faith lesson had been prepared for the children as well as a craft which involved glue and sharing. It's always fun to watch how different the boys and girls allow each other or compete with each other to accomplish the same thing. The amazing part was that part of the lesson was to name the books of the Old Testament. I was a bit embarrassed as I could name the first few and it gets a bit sketchy after that. These kids could have been the teacher because they knew them all.

We also went for another water truck run today in City Soliel. Even though we had visited this same location earlier in the week there was a huge line up people and we emptied a full 2500 gallon truck at this one stop. For the person that manages the hose from the truck it is challenging. It's a 3" hose and the water comes out quick enough to fill a 5 gallon bucket in about 6 seconds. It takes a good amount of coordination to not splash a large amount of water out of each bucket as well as keep the buckets moving to not waste any water. Moving the buckets and trying to keep some semblance of order takes at least three other people. The kids always come running to be held while the truck is there. Many of them do understand if you ask what their name is and like to know what our names are as well. Many times this week when holding the children they would run their hands thru our hair and giggle. I also found a couple of times this week where little ones would start pulling the hair on my legs and were just very curious about body hair.

As we were sitting around this evening talking about the day we were talking about how we would explain the trip to people when we got back. Many in the group agreed that its going to be difficult to describe in a short description what we did this week and what it meant to us. It's going to take time to process everything that we witnessed, that we did and how great God has been in bringing this team together and all of the lives that have been touched during this journey. I would say that the people of Haiti showed us what true faith is as they live it every single day. For that I am very thankful!


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Tony Lambertz