First Few Days in Cap Haitien

Hello Everyone,

I am at a Cyber Cafe right now getting internet. There is no internet at the EBAC orphanage as of right now so it will be hit and miss at least for this next week whether I can get on the internet again. I don't have pictures of the last few days now to post, but I will have a few I think that I will post later.

The trip from Cap Haitien was fairly good. About 80% of the road is paved now which was very surprising to me. About half of that pavement is pretty poor with potholes every hundred feet or so to slow you down, but still, I was surprised at how good it was compared to what I thought it was. A company from the Dominican Republic has paved the first 30 miles out of Port Au Prince in the last month or so and has done a very good job. It is very nice road. The road passes through a hot, flat desert, then to a steep mountain range before dropping into a lush hilly landscape which leads towards Cap Haitien. It took seven hours to complete the trip.

On Tuesday, I joined a team from Pennsylvania that was staying at EBAC in going out to the town of Milot to a hospital. The hospital is being run primarily by American Doctors right now and has several hundred earthquake victims, specifically amputees that are there. We as a group prepared 200 large meals that can serve two people each and brought them to the hospital. We had the chance to pray alongside many of the victims. These people are getting some of the best care in Haiti right now, which was great to see, but most of these people will never be the same physically again after the earthquake. We just pray that many of them would come to know Christ as their savior though this terrible tragedy.

I have spent the last two days helping with school in the morning at EBAC. I am teaching second through fifth graders, helping check their work and help with teaching English and Math. School gets out here at 1:00 so I have plenty of time in the afternoon to rest up, relax and talk with the many Haitian friends I am getting to know. I am staying in a large apartment now that is above the school. It is a really nice setup and I enjoy staying there. Kathy and Alice, who run the orphanage have been very hospitable and I have really enjoyed having conversations with them each night after dinner. They are wonderful Christians with a heart to serve the children of Haiti.

This weekend, as of now, I will be working with Pastor Cebien, who is the pastor that started EBAC almost 40 years ago. Myself, him and possibly another 26 year old American who is staying at EBAC as well, are going to hike into a village in the mountains on friday with food and supplies. I don't know a lot of details, but I think that we may be doing that tomorrow. As of now, I will be working with him the rest of the weekend going out to another place in the countryside as well, staying a night. I really don't know a lot of the specific details yet. I just know he is a very trustworthy man who Kathy and Alice know very, very well. Whatever we end up doing, I will do it with everything that I am to serve the Lord.

I don't have too much time left on the internet, so I won't say much more. I thank you all for your continued prayers and support. I really appreciate everything that so many of you have done in praying for me. The trip so far has been great and the Lord is working in my heart right now in many ways.

Thank you and God Bless you all!

-Garrett Luck