Looking Forward to Mama’s Return!
Well, I didn’t plan on writing the blog today, but I started getting sick last night, so today I’m trying...
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Well, I didn’t plan on writing the blog today, but I started getting sick last night, so today I’m trying...
Jess and I have decided to tag team this blog. We wrote down a bunch of topics and are going...
I don’t know any other way to start this blog, other than to apologize twenty times over for not writing...
Woah, you guys get two blogs within a days time! I was expecting mine to go out before Karen’s but...
A wonderful day after Saturday Night Shenanigans. We’ll keep it brief about last evening, but suffice to say there were...
It really goes so fast: it seems as if we just arrived and were planning what we would do here...
Guess what we did today? WE PAINTED! AND PAINTED! AND PAINTED SOME MORE! IN FULL-SUN HEAT!! Ugly to beautiful But...
Every morning while we’re here we try to do a time of devotion with staff members and the children. We...
We had a very productive day here at HATS-Haiti. The men working on the roof weren’t able to get a...
Dear friends of HATS-Haiti, the team arrived on Mon. May 23 and it was a smooth landing compared to the...
Just a little note to let our family and friends know that Gerry and the team made it safely to...
Hello all, Jessie Here. I hope you all are in for the long haul, because this is going to be one...
Noise, noise, noise at the administration building/Karen’s living accommodations. But the noise is for a good reason. Bang, bang, bang...
After sending off the last blog and then reading it again ourselves, we decided that we should ask for some...
So Jess and I have been in Haiti for exactly a month now! It sure doesn’t seem like that long!...
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One thing that has impacted me on this trip is seeing the children and all the dedication in this orphanage. There is so much going on behind the scenes to keep the HATS orphanage and school running.
Such important work done with LOVE and commitment!
We have so enjoyed our time here. The work we have done has been fulfilling, the fellowship has been memorable and our hearts are forever impacted by the sweet, sweet children. A piece of HATS will always stay with each of us and who knows, maybe a few will return!
It’s my hope that I manage to touch their hearts in some small way, the way that they have touched mine – in a major way.
This is my first time traveling outside of Canada and I am proud to say it was for a mission trip. I have always wanted to go on one and see what it like in other parts of the world and do what I can to help out. Haiti is a terminus life change for me and how I look at things. Seeing these kids and how they have such a passion for each other and for us is truly inspiring. I look back to what I was like at that age and I don’t think I was half as kind or generous as they are. This morning we did devotions and as I was speaking about what an impact they had on me only in one day I started to tear up…it was very emotional to talk about.
I have absolutely loved the Haitian people and Haiti the three times I have been there. I go to bless them, only to be blessed myself!
Thank you Karen for everything you do, all the hard work and dedication that you put into this place, all of the work behind the scenes. Thank you for putting up with all the craziness that we bring when we come to your house for the week, just thank you times a million and one for everything Karen. I can write about my week until I am blue in the face (maybe not write that long but if you know me I can definitely talk for that long), and can sing about kit kat bars until my voice gives out, but I cannot even begin to try and articulate in song, dance, or other random art forms how thankful and blessed I am to have been given this experience not only once but twice! Thank you – thank you – thank you – thank you!!!!!!!
I am going to try to explain why a trip to Haiti is life-changing. No-one can be thrown into a group of people who have the common purpose of doing something for someone less fortunate and not be changed in many ways. As with those I joined in each of the first four trips I made to HATS, my respect and affection for each of the team members grows daily. To those who wonder if your donations and prayers are actually making a difference, I will answer you in this way…there are about 300 children in front of me right now and some or many of them God will use in a great way to change the future face of Haiti and its people. YOU have helped make that possible — AND THAT, FOLKS — is a fact!
I had anticipated that I would enjoy spending time getting to know the children and being a part of Karen’s daily life in Haiti but I had not anticipated that it would capture my heart like it did. I will miss spending time with the children and Karen but I am hopeful that I’ll be able to see them all again in the not too distant future.
I have learned much about Haiti in my short stay here, much about generational, entrenched poverty, and much about hope. We can only be part of the bringing of hope if we become one small actor on the huge stage that is poverty. Thank you, Lynn Clark, for inviting me to share this life changing experience with you, and thank-you, Karen Huxter, for investing so much of your life in a work designed to bring hope to those who need it more than any Canadian could ever imagine.
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