Recovery Continues

Although there are times one wonders if recovery from the 2010 earthquake in Haiti will ever be complete, we keep addressing one project at a time. On Friday morning a team leaves for Haiti to continue the rebuilding of churches damaged by the earthquake. The focus of this trip is Fontina, a village in the mountains above our mission station in Anse-a-Galets on the island of La Gonave. In the summer of 2010 a team erected one of the pole-barn structures to replace the church that was destroyed. The second phase is to pour reinforced concrete walls; that is our task. Although Fontina is just a few miles from the mission station, the terrain (and what passes for a road) is very hostile to vehicluar traffic; and travel time is 2 hours one-way. In order to maximize our work time, the team is planning to stay on site for several days at a time. The only electricity will be supplied by a generator that runs during working hours. Water for cooking and hygiene comes from a well nearby. Drinking water must be brought from the village below.

The eleven team members come from six churches across the Penn-Jersey District. For five of them this is their first trip to Haiti.

As in the past, I plan to periodically update this blog as long as the Internet is accessible and I'm reasonably coherent.

Your prayers for wisdom, strength and safety are always welcome.