August 4, 2010  Day Three for Mike and Bonnie Snider and the Holiday Hill and Wood Run Mission Teams in Bercy, Haiti We had a great morning devotion by the Wood Run Youth Pastor (named Ran). He cited Matthew 5:16, where Jesus encourages us as Christians to be both salt and light to the world and to let our light shine before others.  Also, Luke 6 shows us that God wants us to love our enemies and...

August 3, 2010  Day Two for Mike and Bonnie and the Holiday Hill and Wood Run Mission Teams in Bercy, Haiti  Got a late start on projects today as we had to go to Port Au Prince to register with Samaritan’s Purse.  We bought one kit house and loaded it onto the old blue truck.  Started construction on it and realized that 40 people were too many for one tiny house.  We will finish it tomorrow...

August 2, 2010 Day One for Mike and Bonnie Snider  It’s 8:21 p.m. and we are listening to the orphanage children sing before bedtime.  This was moving day for Mike and me, and day one of a mission trip for 19 people, formed from two groups.  One, from Holiday Hill church in Jacksonville and the other, Wood Run church in Tallahassee.  We are all working through the Jacksonville Baptist Association...

What an amazing week the Lord is giving us! The days are flying by as we grow more in love with the people of Haiti! As Brittany shared in her blog, we are all on our own journey here, and the Lord is using the same mission trip to accomplish so many things in the lives of each of us. One thing the Lord has reminded me is how blessed I was to have a mom and a dad who loved the Lord and were there to...

Reaching the end of the first full day in Haiti I feel like I could already right a book, but I will stick to the things that stuck out to me. David has said from the very beginning that we don’t have one trip of 22 people going to Haiti, but 22 trips with 22 separate experiences, so this would merely be one of 22 different stories and experiences everyone else is having here in Haiti. When we landed...

Recently, a pastor shared with me an interaction he had with someone as he prepared to go with us on a mission trip to Haiti. He told the man he would be unavailable because he would be out of the country for a week. The man asked him where he was a going. “Haiti”, the pastor replied. The man looked at him seriously and asked, “Haiti? Is that still going on?”  The stories...

 For first timers, this mission trip is eye-opening on so many levels and at times reveals and exposes our individual stress points of being out of our own familiar world.  Our team of 12 has taken on several projects throughout the week from scrubbing walls and painting bathrooms to sorting and organizing shoes, clothes and supplies.  The most rugged among us took down chain link fencing and dug...

Last Friday we had a medical team run a clinic in a massive tent city named Obama Village.  They served over 200 people per day for two days, and one of the patients they had was 9 months pregnant and her water broke while she was standing in line.  Our doctors checked her out and said she wasn’t in labor and needed to go to the hospital to deliver the baby.  They came back the next day and she...

Hey every one, sorry for the delay in the Mandarin Baptist Mission trip updates..wi-fi hasn’t exactly been up to par. A lot has happened in the past 4 days. God has given us so many great opportunites and through those opportunites, He has taught us so many amazing things. Wednesday: After finishing the book shelves and painting them, we brought them upstairs and organized a lot of medical supplies....

After arriving safely to Haiti on Monday morning, we made it to the orphanage and have settled in quite well. Things aren’t at all what we imagined, you really do have to experience it first hand to understand. There are 46 children of all different ages here at the orphanage. The kids are so precious, and so funny! Monday: After arrival, we spent about 2 hours trying to get from the airport...