Our New Friends!

Greetings!

Yanni here. I wanted to take this opportunity and share with you some of what has been going on lately with the Haiti team. In the process of preparing we have been presented with an unexpected and pleasant friendship with a local Haitian church. Just a few weeks ago we attended for a great experience.The French, Creole, and English languages were used interchangeably throughout the morning. We were blessed to be a part of that day, may I add that worshiping in French is an amazing journey(it truly is a beautiful language). After the service was over, some of the women in the church had prepared a Haitian feast for us. We ate some incredible food and enjoyed some encouraging conversations with our new Haitian brothers and sisters.

This is just the beginning. Pastor Joel and the leadership of the church were thrilled to have us and invited us back.As a matter of fact, us visiting them and sharing our plans to go awakened the members to have more of a missional mindset, they are now planning future trips with their church to Haiti and around the world. Who would have thought that we would inspire a Haitian church to actually go back to their homeland and proclaim the good news of the gospel. Incredible, refreshing, and life changing stuff! They will be packing a supply of items for us to take on our trip to give to the local people while we are on the ground. Things like soap, toothpaste, socks, towels, etc. We will be visiting with the Haitian church again soon for a "training day" where they will teach us some practical Haitian etiquette,dialect, and cultural awareness type information as well as how to best reach the children through some of the VBS work we will be doing(Melissa our co-leader is owning that and doing a fabulous job). We will also be joining the church one more time in December for a Sunday morning service. We are so thankful for our new friendship and bond with this community. If you see them around 12stone soon, be sure and say hello.They are likely to visit us at Waters Edge.

In the post to follow tomorrow we will be talking with you about some of the current happenings including this past Sundays group meeting,as well as some recent last minute needs. Looking forward to sharing the following entry with you all, it will be titled "Our Daily Bread"

Xristos Sotir

Yanni Iliadis