No, Alyssa and Beth are not homeless bag ladies! What on earth are they doing would be the next logical question.
Our teaching today was for all the Haitian mothers who still believe that you have to wrap your baby in layers of extra clothes, hats, socks and blankets when it is close to 100 degrees here in Haiti. Being from Minnesota, I am not sure we even dressed our kids in that many extra clothes. We have told them time and time again.... DON'T DRESS YOUR BABY IN SO MANY CLOTHES! It wasn't working! We started praying for creative new teachings so we could breakthrough some of different cultural ideas here.
Prayer Answered: Beth came to the house and said, God answered our prayers! While I was running I found a lady on the street that sells stocking caps! Exactly what prayer was this I was thinking! Happily, she continued telling me she went back and bought everything she had so we could do a teaching on what a baby should and shouldn't wear. We are going to dress everyone in stocking caps and blankets she continued! With those words my mind slammed on the breaks telling me nothing sounded worse than putting on blankets and stocking caps in the middle of the summer here.
Well, cleaning the car catcher is pretty bad!
Part of living here is being covered in sweat all day, every day, but I try to avoid creating extra sweat at all costs.
Let's not forget ice is our friend! No, I don't want to ever live in Minnesota again but I love ice water and diet coke with ice!
You can imagine what began happening in the room as we dressed everyone in the winter hats and blankets that each mom dresses her baby in. Just to make our point we shut off the ceiling fans! Soon the room was soon filled with laughter as Beth and Katie walked our mom through why it isn't good for their baby to have so many layers on in the heat here.
As I write this, I think of how the layers of clothes seem to apply to the layers in the lives of these mothers and children that we work with each day. We touch one layer and in opens up two or three more layers that we have to deal with. None of them are ever easy. Some are things we can't fix. Adding humor to our teaching seems like it opens doors for relationship and communication for our ladies. Today they all stayed and talked with each other long after the teaching was done as they sat and ate their eggs and drank their milk.
Today was an answer to prayer! Even in a stocking cap in Haiti!
2 comments:
how fun! look how big my jessi is getting...(and still a little cross-eyed lol). not only was it a fun way for the ladies to learn but the lady beth bought everything from certainly had a great day!
True! We have been really having fun with the new things we have been doing.
Jessi is getting big but I am worried about her eye. You should see how cute her other kids are!
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