Haiti report

Orchard Hill has a group in Pignon, Haiti right now. Here's a report from the team:

Greetings!Hi to all from Haiti!!!I'm sorry the e-mails have been rare! Without the cyber cafe, it is hard to find a computer to e-mail from. We are having a wonderful time! We wrote from Anne's Orphanage last and since then our days have been full!That afternoon Joel, Randy, Taylor, and Pat took on some Haitian boys in basketball, you will have to ask them about the outcome of that game! Later we were actually able to sing at the hospital... no rain!Saturday morning Kaylie, Sally, and Joel got up very early to climb one of the mountains just outside of town. They say it was a tough climb but the view from the top makes it well worth it! Jessie Campbell, whose parents run an orphanage here helped them on their climb! The rest of us - Marla, Randy, Jill, Jacy, Taylor, Pat, Diane, Natalie, Machaela, and Judy walked to the edge of town to watch the people from the surrounding countryside come to town for market! Lots of donkeys loaded with goods and women with baskets on their heads!After that we walked through the market, which can be quite intimidating if you don't know what you're in for! It's single file through the marketplace and if you get lost it would be extremely hard to find your way back out! Marla then did her negotiating for beans and rice with the big man in town named Beetle! That went pretty well for the most part!After leaving the market we had lunch and changed into our paint clothes to go paint some rooms for the hospital storage depot. We then came home to eat dinner but were not able to go sing at the hospital because once again it was raining!Sunday was a really good day for us here in Haiti! We woke up and went to a Baptist Church near where we are staying. We could not go out to Jean-Jean's church because they were having an election in Pignon for senator. No motor vehicles were allowed on the roads. Church went well a small Haitian girl even fell asleep for about an hour on Jacy's lap.. she then drooled all over her shirt!After church we had lunch and a little down time before heading over to the soccer field! Randy, Pat, Joel, Taylor, Jacy, Jill, and Michaela took on some neighborhood boys in soccer and get beat badly but had a lot of fun! Everyone one else painted nails and blew bubbles with the little ones on the sidelines!That night we had dinner and then were once again able to go to the hospital to sing! We must have done a really good job because we were asked for an encore and even had requests!! It is great to be able to go into the hospital and shake hands with all of the patients! Our time with them blesses us as much as it is a blessing to them!On Monday we all woke up for breakfast and the men left to go to Guimbi to start working on the roof at the school. The women stayed in Pignon and finished the painting at the depot. They also scrubbed storages shelves for medical supplies. There were lots of little ones helping which made for great pictures and a lot of fun!This afternoon we are playing with the children at the Campbell Orphanage but need to walk back to town soon so that we will not be late for dinner!Hope all is well back in Iowa! We are having an amazing time and are growing in our faith more and more everyday!God Bless,Jacy Kraayenbrink & The Haiti Mission Team