Day 3 – Anse-a-foleur

Today our group helped out with a VBS in Anse-a-foleur (A town about an hour from the mission) at the mission church. We made about 250 peanut butter sandwiches this morning and worked on the lesson. Our group along with a few others from different teams worked on making signs for each fruit of the spirit in creole. We had a different color for each of the characteristics (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control). There were matching bracelets to go along with each word as well. 

After piling onto a truck we drove through town and through a river, along a gorgeous oceanside drive and to the town with Haitian music blaring into the back of the truck. After letting about 150 kids in we started by singing a few songs. I love hearing Haitian children sing!! They get so into it! We read the passage in Galatians 5 and showed the signs we made in the different colors. We gave each row of kids a different color bracelet and then had them each stand up and yell which fruit of the spirit their row was. They were getting so competitive within the rows. It was funny! We dismissed the kids row by row giving them each a peanut putter sandwich and a cup of lemonade. It actually went pretty smoothly considering there were other kids trying to sneak in from all sides of the church!

Our group went out into the town and took a walk to a temple downtown. This is not any temple. Anse-a-foleur is known for one of the largest voodoo populations in Haiti.  We went into this temple to observe what these people experience on a daily basis as far as rituals go. It is a weird feeling to walk around in a place like that. I am never really sure how to feel walking around in there, however it is an interesting experience and gives you a good taste of that part of the Haitian culture.

Tomorrow we are going to to walk down to the “big market” and buy some gifts for the Haitian workers in the Miriam Center. In the afternoon we are going to take all of the kids for a swim. Hopefully we will have pictures up of that tomorrow.

 

the road to anse-a-foleur

 

VBS in the church