I need to say very little in this blog as the pictures will speak for themselves!!! H2H sponsors donated extra money this month to help make the holiday season special for the kids who live at H2H and the kids who attend our school. The festivities took place on December 24th... which is usually a dreaded day for the school kids as it's report card day!!!! After a huge shopping trip in Port-au-Prince the H2H kids packed 400 Christmas presents for the students. The little elves were rewarded for their work with a Christmas dinner that made Santa himself proud!!! There was a double reward for some of them as they are students as well :) Luckily we had a team here visiting because we needed all the hands we could find!
Preparing the gift bags:
Giving out the gift bags & report cards:
Christmas Dinner with the kids at H2H:
The little guy hiding behind the Coke is Mackenson. He came to H2H this summer from a small village nearby and has already become a loved little brother to all the older boys... there's just something about a little boy who is willing to do anything on command... dishes, laundry, dancing, push ups... all with this smile on his face! After he finished eating dinner he came and sat with me. Our conversation went like this...
I asked him, "Are you full?" ... "Yup!"
"Do you want to eat some of mine?" ... "Yup!"
"Are you going to throw up?" ... "Maybe!"
Again... all with this smile on his face :)
(I'm going to plug our sponsorship program here... Mackenson still needs a sponsor, any takers?)
A special thank you from Renel & I for all your Christmas wishes. For the most part we celebrated Christmas "Haitian Style" but I made him wake up early to open stockings... a taste of the Larkinn Christmas :)
2 comments:
this from Becky Jan 14/10
I am at another mission using their internet. Grand Goave was hit hard & our compound was severely damaged. The quaks continue to hit us but they are less severe but strong enough that buildings continue to fall. By nothing less than the grace of God the children living at H2H are alive & not badly hurt. We had 4 kids in PauP and we have only found 2. We are still looking desperately for Kaka (Renel's brother) & Emilio (Jay Michel's brother). Most of the exteral walls of the compound have colapsed. The kitchen/dining room/guest house/depo has colapsed completely and the church is beyond repair. We had 7 kids cleaning the guest house & they fell but we got them removed & they are only minorly scratched. The ground is shaking as I write and I really shouldn't stay here long. I hear the phone service should be up by next week but I don't know that for sure. I will make a huge effort to come to this mission daily to connect with you. Please pray for us. Pray for strength. We can't go into any buildings so we are all sleeping on the open area in the compound. People are starting to travel between towns and since last night news is coming to us about the deaths & the devastation of our family & friends. Amos' wife was killed when the building she was in colapsed. Lookens' mom as well. Pastor Luc & his family are fine. Many others have died or are badly injured. We are still very much in survival mode. Our food depo is completely buried, along with all our cooking pots, etc. We have borrowed & scrambling to buy food locally. I connected with the UN this morning & they have promised to return this afternoon with their Commander. We need your prayers more than I can tell you, we are struggling. We know we have been covered by the grace of God as it could have been so much worse for us. We are all praising God for his mercy and we know he will continue to care for us.
Please tell my family that I am ok. I am worried about my parents as they were on a cruise in this area. Please let me know if you hear anything about them.
Rebecca I am so happy to hear that you and your husband are well and have survived this horrible natural disaster, we donated today to help out through doctors without borders and will definitley donate through your organization as well. I am so proud of you and everything you are doing out there! Kam Atwal Langley BC
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