Border Crossing

Finally at the border, everyone felt relieved because we knew the drive to Port au Prince would not be much longer. Another YWAM bus met us at the border and instructed us that, as we assumed, our entire group was not going to St. Marc. Our team was indeed supposed to go to PAP. Although relieved, there quickly came another frustration.

That morning, there were two buses that set out for Haiti and no one had any clue where the other bus was. We were instructed to wait. We also had to produce all of our passports and signatures to be reviewed by the border police. During our two hour layover at the border, it went something like this:

Everyone unload their luggage.
People going to St. Marc put your luggage back on the luggage trailer.
People going to PAP place all of your luggage inside the back of your bus.
Everyone unload your luggage.
People going to St. Marc put your luggage on the bus.
People going to PAP place your luggage on the luggage trailer.
Go to the bathroom, walk around get back on the bus.

Finally, we were on our way to PAP! These are just some pics of what we saw when crossing the border. We saw a U.S. army convoy and many large dump trucks and aid trucks traveling into Haiti. The other picture you see is just across the border into Haiti. The land is really beautiful. This is the largest body of fresh water in Haiti, and the Haitians have to keep moving the road up the mountainside because the water keeps rising. Only no one knows how because it rises even when they haven't had any rain.

Could this be a sign of what God wants to do in Haiti?