We had 4 teams arrive in Jan. with team member coming from four states and 12 different churches. It's always very rewarding to see Churches come together on a team and work to accomplish God's work in cooperation with one another. Our second Jan. team came from Orchard Free Evangical Church in Arlington Heights , Ill. They were our smallest team with 9 members ,the 5 ladies helped out in the clinic, taught school and stained cabinets. Several of the men built cabinets and one guy who was a mechanic worked on several of our vehicles as well as plumbing and electrical projects. The other male team member spent much of his time taking photos and video footage , he is putting together some dvd's to help us recruit more work teams and also several videos for our website. As with all our teams, we gave them a day away from Canaan to get a better perspective of the country and it's people. they chose to take the boat trip to the largest island off Haiti's coast La Gonave. This is the large island that we Canaanite's can see out in the beautiful Caribbean each day. It is part of Haiti many never get to visit but is home to around 100,000 people, it is appr. 37 miles long by 12 miles wide. You have 2 ways to get there, by boat from Carieres or by small airplanes from Port au Prince. Our only option was the 17 mile boat ride because the boat dock is only a 20 minute drive from Canaan. If you have never been on large bodies of water in high seas with no life jackets this trip isn't for you. I think for those of us who went that day it was a memorable experience. Once you get there travel is limited to few either hiking or a few short roads traversed by motor scooter and tap-taps. I'm pretty sure I will be seeing many more teams from the this church in the coming years.
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