Trip to Haiti Diary ~ Allen Bowers & Whitney Hoover

Hello From Haiti


Bonjou! (Good morning!)

It is so good to write you all this email. We are sorry that it has taken us
this long to write! Our time here in Haiti has been wonderful. We left the
states on Tuesday and had relatively no trouble at the airports or on the plane
(although Whitney and I both had our bags searched! - I guess we are the
terrorist type, haha!). We arrived in Port au Prince at 1:30 on Tuesday and it
was definitely an experience! Part of the airport was destroyed and we had to
go through a new building for customs and immigration. The Lord prepared the
way for us and we had no trouble getting through customs nor immigration and
the Lord saw that all of our luggage arrived! We walked outside and a friend
of Pastor Preval was waiting for us. We rode with Pastor Preval all over Port
au Prince as he took care of some duties and we saw the overwhelming
devastation caused by the earthquake - the pictures and images of collapsed
buildings and tent communities from TV are real. We spent the night at Pastor
Preval's and in the morning we flew to Pignon where Pastor Geordany was waiting
for us! From there we traveled to LaJeune and I (Allen) have never felt more
like I was at home! I (Whitney) also feel very welcomed by Pastor and his
wife. I appreciate them allowing us to stay here and my eyes have definitely
been opened. Words can not explain what I have seen so far. The children are a
little weary of me because I unlike Allen do not know any of the language.
However, we play games which allows us to bond. Since then we have been
spending time with the children and getting to know the people. We did a
practice water test yesterday and we will do more of that next week. The youth
rally started yesterday and there are youth sleeping everywhere at Pastor
Geordany's compound! They are so warm and welcoming and it is so awesome to
know that we are brothers and sisters in Jesus! Today, tomorrow, and Sunday
there will be two services a day - which is going to be awesome but probably
also a little tiring! God is good, so is the food, and we are having a
wonderful time! Please keep us in your prayers, that we may share the love of
Jesus with these wonderful people! We love you all and look forward to seeing
you and showing you our pictures when we get back!

In Christ,
Allen and Whitney