Chapter Three: Some Perspective

It's sometimes difficult to envision where people are and what they are seeing. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here are seven that I took (on the compound only!) to give you an idea where I spend day to day life here in Haiti. I will post more pictures outside the walls later :)

This is the beautiful place I am calling home for two more months!

In my first post, I mentioned how if I had arrived three weeks earlier they would have trained me in a tent. This is the inside of that tent! In total, there are three. One tent was a waiting room, another tent was for administration and where Sally (the pediatric nurse practitioner) saw her little patients. The one pictured here is where the doctors and nurse practitioners saw their patients. They did all their exams and even surgeries under the roof of this tent! Now, I only stood in this tent for five minutes and was sweltering hot. Meanwhile, these amazing people spent a couple summers in these tents (which reached a temperature of  a whopping 114 degrees farenheit... that's 45 degrees celsius!!!) It really makes one appreciate the new facility that God has provided!

This is the outside of the tent. As you can see, the move was very timely!

This is the front of the brand new Haiti Health Ministries Clinic!

The new pharmacy is still undergoing construction, but they are working fast. When I arrived, those walls were a third as high.

This is the guesthouse kitchen. Instead of eating a big supper, here as clinic staff we all eat our big lunch here together. We also meet for bible study and a potluck supper on Sunday evenings!

 And this is me, sweating it out under the hot sun, some picture proof that I am really here! (I still can't comprehend it some days!)

This week, someone received Christ at the church I attended, and two more accepted Christ into their life at the Clinic. God is on the move! I am so humbled to be able to witness God at work in the lives of these Haitians, and feel Him so tangibly at work in mine.