River Oaks First Mission Trip to Haiti

Our team was blessed with a safe and uneventful trip to Haiti.The roller coaster of emotions we experienced on the drive from the airport had us both laughing and crying.  The hour and a half ride in the mission bus had us all kissing the ground when it was over.

Each morning starts with breakfast followed by devotions at the mission prayer rock, a large boulder with a thatch roof hut built around it.  Today's devotion was "unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.  Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. What is child like humility?  It's not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.

After devotions, we set out to do HIS work among the children for miles around us.  Haitian time is not measured in minutes and hours, it is in relationships.  The more hungry children we can feed, the more smiles and laughter we can share, the more hope HIS SPIRIT passes on to these these people through us, the more timeless we realize each day is.

HIS work has consisted of feeding children in the schools and orphanages, framing a new guest house for  future mission teams, building benches for the schools, painting bookshelves and most important, trying to be light in a very dark world.  

One of the highlights was hearing the children sing 'HE'S GOT THE WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HANDS" in English at one of the orphanages. The children love our attention and we love giving it back.

The River Oaks Mission Team