We rolled into Jimani, the second biggest focus point besides Port Au Prince, yesterday afternoon with expectations of finding hundreds upon hundreds on the streets. We were prepared for what we saw on tv and youtube to be in our face, enter ¨expectations change¨.
There are people in the streets, maybe 70 to 120, all of them trying to get a ride to the Dominican capital where they believe more hope lies than in Haiti. Most of the hospital patients are in post opt care. Last night Miguel and I walked through the hospital, there is need for love there. Lots of people with casts and one leg or one arm missing. It was a little overwhelming to see so many in the halls, some with family some not so lucky.
Miguel and I found need. We walked around with a bag full of little ¨bolsas de agua¨ handing them to anyone who wanted water, nurses, doctors and of course the patients themselves. We walked in back and found a women who had a plate of food next to her on the bed, Miguel knew what to do…he started to feed her.
Before visiting the hospital we were blessed with the company we sought out, a group of Haitians who were sitting in the city park, searching (not intently) for a place to sleep. Ezekiel was the man of the group, he was living in the DR when everything happened. His sister was in Port au Prince, along with her 3 kids. Her husband died, not sure if anyone else in her family did or not because we didn´t talk about people dying.
Instead Miguel, full of the Holy Spirit and His energy, was entertaining the kids and having them sing worship songs in Creole ( Haitian French). It was beautiful. We were soon joined by more people as a man and his wife, along with a few other women settled up to us. We all talked awhile about different things. Then Miguel started asking them about Jesus. I could see that the burden to share the Gospel was spilling out of His mouth, it was as beautiful as the singing. Turns out Ezekiel and his family are Christians but the other man wasn´t. I believe that he heard and accepted, Miguel was very straight forward with him specifically.
