This past week, we had the honor of hosting a group of guys from Commonwealth Chapel, Richmond, Virginia. There were six guys in all, and for four of them it was their first time in Haiti. One of our board members, Scott Salvant, a member at CC led the group in with the pastor from the church and four other guys.
Commonwealth Chapel had a special program this past Christmas at their church. They hosted something called Advent Conspiracy. Basically, they bought fewer presents for Christmas and gave what they would have spent to NHHM for our Balan feeding program and water problem. It will definitely be a huge blessing for the people of Balan. The video is very cool, definitely check it out!
Also with them was a professional videographer named Ryan. He came with a professional video camera to capture footage of Balan, the feeding program, some interviews, and even inside people's houses in Balan. He's going to turn it into a 5-8 minute video we can show people to highlight the main emphases in our ministry in Balan. Also very cool!
Tuesday we went to Balan to do the feeding program. We distrubuted over 1300 pounds of rice and 600 pounds of beans. I am always amazed. It never seems like there will be enough for everyone, but everyone received a good portion.
The group left on Friday, and that evening we had a wedding to go to. So after getting back from the airport, we loaded up our five kids, Jennifer and I, a staff member, and two kids from the orphanage into the Trooper, and went to Petionville where the wedding was at. It wasn't in a church, but at someone's house. Can I just say, the house was amazing!! It was in this bourgeois district, compete with a gated community, armed guards, and the whole shebang. The house was very nice, even by American standards, complete with an in ground pool in the back. Pretty funny though, we pulled into the driveway, and there was a generator running to power the house. Even the rich in Haiti are affected by the lack of infrastructure.
Oh yeah, it was one of our employees, Jasmine, who got married. The people who own the house are somehow related to her, I never quite heard the whole story.
The whole time during the wedding, I was thinking about the poverty in Balan. Here I was at a beautiful house, better than many houses in the states, and just fifteen miles away there are people living in the kind of poverty most people only see in a National Geographic. In front of me was a swimming pool with sparkling clean water, and in Balan, there is no clean water at all. Not enough to wash clothes, dishes, bathe, or even drink. Very sad indeed.
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