Processing...

  Just got in from Jacmel, Haiti last night and what an experience it was. I couldn't even begin to describe in detail everything that went on. It was great getting to make connections with the children there, play games and soccer, just being a part of their world. Building a house and a school, helping with the feeding program, washing kids hands and serving as Jesus did with His disciples.
  Worshiping in their church, hearing the songs being sung in creole and realizing that a lot of the songs they sang, are songs we sing in the church. Knowing that although there are definite cultural differences between us and the Haitians as well as the language, and seeing how we still praise the very same Jesus was amazing.

  I pray that I won't ever forget this trip and that I will take what I have learned and put into practice for my own life. I think right now, I'm exhausted and just trying to take everything in. I don't think I've been so emotional in my own church service in such a long time, maybe due to the fact that I have a whole new perspective on the world and of God. I felt a lot closer to Him and yet farther in the sense that I just want to know Him even MORE.

  I'm still processing everything that happened and still quite a bit emotional for reasons I'm not all entirely sure of yet... but I pray that through this the Lord will make it known what He wants of me.

  I would very much like to go back to Jacmel at some point to serve and I will be keeping that in prayer. I realize that I do have to consider work and my schedule but if it's the Lord's will I know that He will provide a way for me to go again, and who knows, I could get the opportunity to help serve in other areas of Haiti, like Port Au Prince and maybe even La Gonave. Only God knows where He'll take me, whether it's Haiti somewhere, here in Illinois, or someplace completely different, but wherever He calls me I want to just say "yes Lord, I will go"