Praise the Lord O my soul, all my inmost being Praise His Holy Name.

The first day of feeding was today. We cooked 150 meals. We started with a small number because we wanted to make sure everything was working properly. And, it did!! The generator ran great. The pots are working properly.  We fired the pots up, boiled the water, added the food, and waited. It was all done in about 40 minutes. We put the food into three buckets, and drove it across the river to the first organization, Open Arms Ministry. The children there are so sweet and shy. Not many white people come into their small community, there is one white guy that runs everything, Eric, but they are not used to seeing several together.. pretty exciting stuff I guess!!

Eric has been feeding these children for almost six months. Because he is going to use food made from the OTB kitchen, he can now feed double the amount of kids for half the cost!! These children live just a few miles away from Port de Paix, but even just a few miles away means it’s that much harder for their families to find work, food, and water-all the essentials. And so, this is a huge community with some very big needs-and we hope to further help Eric put a dent into the problem of hunger out here. Just today after the feeding program, he wondered the hills in search of more children he can now add to his feeding program because he is getting the food through OTB.

Oh the foods we miss!!!!

I found mozzarella cheese in Port au Prince!! I love cheese- any kind, in any form, anytime. Once I saw it, I knew I wanted to make pizza. I have been missing pizza so so bad! There is just one problem: I have never made dough from scratch. I usually buy the pre-made refrigerated dough from Trader Joes(which is great by the way). So, I got a recipe and went for it.. and it was actually pretty good. I couldn’t get it to roll into a perfect circle, that will be for next time. But, I used a can of black olives and some local grown onions.. tasty, tasty, tasty!!