i am moving to haiti

Hello hello. You may or may not know this by know but, I am moving to Haiti. In January. It sounds crazy even to me but really incredible at the same time. It seems like forever ago that I was blogging about a trip to India to work at orphanages and now only 6 months later I'm back at it, doing something really only Jesus knew I would be doing. And maybe Gracie, she usually knows these things.

I will start off with the basics, the 411 of what I will be doing. On January 30th I will land in Haiti and after a month of touring the Samaritan's Purse field offices and projects (FYI my job is through SP) I will make my way to a city called Leogane. Here I will be living and working at the Greta Home and Academy. In case you don't know anything about this, which most people don't, I didn't, Greta Van Susteren is a Fox News reporter who helped start, build and fund this orphanage that recently opened in April. They now have a little under 70 children living there and attending the on site academy.

With the Greta Home I will be working with the director doing a few things:

1. teaching English...I am NOT a teacher, but I do know English, so it should go pretty well.
2. working to develop programs, efficiency, sunday schools, and organization for the home. In other words, being my administrative, organized self.

I am sure there is a lot more that I don't even have a clue about right now but that for now is how I understand my job role to be.

I am currently freaking out. In a good way. Its like the anticipation you have before you go on a roller coaster you've never ridden. You are really excited and ready but the anticipation and the unknown gets you. And there are so many unknowns. I wonder what it will be like in Haiti, who I will meet, what the kids will be like, or the food, or the spiders (dear Lord please help me) or the electricity/lack there of and all the things I will learn, about Haiti, living overseas, the people, my heart, Jesus, what Jesus wants to do in Haiti....the list goes on and on... and on and usually starts when I wake up and continues until I fall asleep.

All that to say I don't get much sleep at night and Im really really excited. I am so thankful that Jesus wants me to do this, that he has made the way for it to happen and that he is going with me. I remember journaling in July after I went to the Philippines about being ready for this part of my life, for what I knew ultimately was going to happen and it is absolutely surreal that it is happening.

That is a mouthful for now. 53 days seems like a lot but I'm sure it will fly by and in the meantime I will have plenty to process here.

Pray for me!