zach pippin

Plan: Wake up. Travel to tent city. Set up tents for over 600 people.

Problem: Mayor of Croix des Bouquets didn’t want us to set up the tents where we planned because the school beside that field was re-opening soon.

Solution:

Well, as I told yall yesterday, we had some locals pass out vouchers to the neediest families. Well, we arrived back at that tents city the  next morning with a truck full of tents and well needed police escort.

We began by finding more volunteers to help secure the site along with the police. Then, one of our team members preached to the crowds while Pastor Lesly, one of our Hatian friends, translated. At the end Pastor Lesly appeared to give an invitation in Creole, about 20 people came up and prayed with him.

After the service, we had the families with vouchers come in to see a demonstration of how to put up their tents. They then came to the truck where I took their voucher and gave them a tent and Tommy gave them a Creole Bible.

As we began to run out the people got more desperate. Towards the end the crowds began to break through the perimeter and the police began to shove them back. We about ran over people that were grabbing onto our trucks trying to get their hands on something to take.

We finally got out of there and back to our camp. After lunch we set out to what would be the most memorable part of our trip. I’ll save that story for its own special post tomorrow.