God's Plumbline Ministries: Igemene's Wedding Day!

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God's Plumbline Ministries is called to repair devastation in the lives of God's people allowing restoration both physically and spiritually. Providing creative solutions for employment, education and life skills allowing God to repair and restore hope. Empowering each community to establish a secure foundation both inside and out, while keeping in tact God given talents and uniqueness, not focusing on man's ways but God's ways. Developing working relationships within social and economic circles, working hand in hand with community leaders to bring the love and compassion of Jesus Christ.

Friday, April 10, 2009

Igemene's Wedding Day!

I got back to Haiti on the four o'clock flight Wednesday just in time to celebrate Dan's birthday!

Happy Birthday # 47.....!!

Thursday morning we got up and out the door so I could go get my passport renewed but that didn't work because I needed an appointment. I will be back to renew my passport on May 11th...

Next we went to a Passover Seder meal with Maddie's class. Mr. Day (Papa) walked us through our passover meal. She had been planning a birthday surprise for Dan. He wasn't sure why he had to stop and buy the whole class "treats" when it was his birthday? The whole class sang Happy Birthday.....Maddie was very happy!

We made a quick stop back here at the house, I got my camera, had some ice coffee and off we went to Igemene's wedding.
Igemene's day was really special....
She was so pretty!
Out of all the things that she could have spent her money on here in Haiti she made the choice to get married and have a church wedding.
It is hard to describe a Haitian wedding. Haitian weddings are known to be very loud, long and drawn out events. No one is on time and they can take hours while every one dances coming down the isle. This one was no different. The three white people had books with us to read while we waited for hours. Dan and John went looking for the guy who sells ice cream.
It was fun to see all the sewing ladies come to the wedding and celebrate with Igemene.

I don't often think about what it looks like to the Haitians for a white person to be living in their country. I know we are different, we are white, they are black, we don't think the same in many ways, but I am not really ever thinking about color.
I am thinking about finding solutions to life problems.
So when I saw Dan sitting at the reception it was so funny to see him sitting alone seeming so out of place.
Here is a big white guy sitting in the middle of the room in a little chair surrounded by black people. To make it even more odd...they asked us to get up and take all the food we wanted in front of everyone. After we finished they handed out styrofoam containers of food to everyone with chicken, rice and beans.