Let Us Unify As One!

This was one exciting week in Haiti, and man did it seem to just fly by! On Monday I worked with the maintenance crew building a porch on one of the YWAM apartments here. It is going to cut down on their cooling bills so much and offer shade and a place to take off their muddy shoes during the rainy season. Which is due to start in a couple of weeks.
Tuesday I went to Paris with Matt. (Paris, Timonet, and the Clinic are the three tent communities that YWAM St. Marc is working with.) Matt put on a seminar and photographed it and helped him where needed. I must say he did a great job. It was also really cool to see the way that God had mended a conflict there between the pastor and YWAM. The community was pressuring the pastor for free water, but Haitians charge Haitians about 50 cents for a bucket of water. So Matt explained that if we do not charge a fee for the water then we will not have money to repair the pump when it breaks. He also explained that while we charge the outer community, the victims of the earthquake should not be charged (for a length of time I cannot remember). He used this illustration, that the victims are like people with a broken leg whom we must help across the water, but once they are healed, it is not our job to carry them anymore, they must do it, and if we continue to help them, we will make them beggars for life. This is a growing concern of the long-termers here in Haiti, and YWAM in general. A lot of the west thinks that you can solve the problem by just throwing some money at it, but I have noticed that all this does is creates dependancy on man and not on God, and we wonder why Haiti is returning back to their former lifestyle! Our strategy must change if we are to reach the people of Haiti! Okay, so I will stop preaching now, but feel free to leave comments, email me, skype me, whatever if you want more information.
On Wednesday I worked with YWAM’s Homes of Hope ministry. We set the posts to a small duplex for the poor in a community here is St. Marc that YWAM has been investing in for some time now.
On Thursday, me and Matt went out to Timonet, another one of YWAM’s tent communities, and we started the construction of a squatty potty of the children, since the latrines were not working out for them. They were just too tall and the wholes proved too intimidating as the children thought that they might fall into the whole. The latrines though in general are a brilliant concept promoting sanitation, and conserving precious water at the same time.
Yesterday and today I started a new phase of my ministry here in St. Marc. I am now on the “Welcoming Committee”. Which means that I go to the airport with our driver (whoever that turns out to be) and I pick up the teams, keep the Haitians off of their luggage, and brief them a little bit on Haiti, and what YWAM is doing here. Tomorrow I will try to update this again with some of that information.
Please keep praying for us, if there is one thing that I learning it is that prayer in unity rends the heavens and allows God to minister among us. So, the base is doing back to back 24/7 prayer days to see the power of God break loose in the our tent communities. The first session will be at the clinic and the second here at the base. Please be praying for us. Thank you!