Made it back safely to the US two days ago.  One of my best mission trips ever... One of the highlights of the trip happened the day my team was to leave back to the U.S.  We were waiting around the Guest House and decided to go upstairs on the balcony and sing some worship songs.  It started with a few of us maybe 5.  As we began to worship slowly people began to  be drawn to the music and then the Presence of Jesus.  Yep He was really in the midst.  Jesus is alive and well in Haiti!  He resides in the hearts of The Hopeful.  Two of the people that were drawn were a Cuban couple. Both were doctors and were on mission as missionaries to Haiti from Cuba.  They didn't speak much English but were fluent in Creole and Spanish.  They came in and joined in our worship.  They recognized the tune of the songs and sung in Spanish.  We also had a couple of our Haitian interpreters with us (who were much more than interpreters they were our brothers in Christ) sung in Creole, we sung in English.  Also a young Mennonite woman from Canada joined us.  The scene was remarkable!  All of us: black, white, Haitian, Cuban, American, Canadian, male, female, Baptists, Mennonite, Church of God, Non-denominational, Pentecostal, older, younger...we were all united worshipping Jesus on a balcony in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti.  How ironic that God would should up in the midst of such poverty, stench and filth.  The time was so sweet as we interceded for the people of Haiti through our Worship of Jesus.  Some of us were prostrate on the ground, others were kneeling, some were standing, some were sitting, some weeping, some quiet, some speaking in tongues, some prophesying.  It was truly like Acts 2.  It was unrehearsed, unscripted only the prompting and leading of the Holy Spirit filling hungry desperate hearts.  Our friend, the Cuban doctor had a prophetic word for the group and it wa s interpreted by the Canadian Mennonite woman (she had never had this experience before).  The presence of God was glorious-when God shows up He seems to ignite all of our senses.  When the singing was over the worship continued because God had deposited great overflowing buckets of Love and Grace.  We mingled...we talked...we hugged...we laughed...we held hands...we wiped tears from our eyes.  It was worship at it's best; we were honoring God through unfiltered spontaneous Love from Him share with one another.  Though our differences never disappeared they weren't barriers but instruments.  Truly awesome!  One would think having 3 or 4 different languages going at once would be distracting and most likely would be without the Holy Spirit.  But just the opposite was true, the differences brought a unique symphonic composition whose conductor was God Himself causing a melodic vibe that flowed onto the garbage filled streets of Port-au-Prince below.  I hope you got a glimpse of the Greatness of our God in Haiti.  This is just one of many cool God moments in Haiti.  Will share more later.  Love you!

 

Shalom (wholeness, peace, well being) in Yeshua (Jesus),

PD