Breaking Bread at Blue Hills

Yesterday Hunter and I joined the Hearts-4-Hope team as they went to serve the church at Blue Hills. Despite the fact that this church is only a few miles in distance from the orphanage, until yesterday, I had never been there. The name, un-Haitien to say the least, was rather unfitting for its location. As I looked across the church’s landscape I didn’t see a single hill, only mountains and flood plains. And the only thing blue in sight was the vast sky above and the tattered blue tarp that draped part of the rugged church building.

The team went there to share food with the very hungry community. With 200 boxes of rice, beans, and vegetables in hand, we arrived to Blue Hills with a crowd of about 500 people, mostly children.

After greeting the people and singing songs with them, the team and our teens handed out the food. As you can imagine, the mobs of people became quite overwhelming and with more people than boxes they had to share three people to a plate.

Once all of the food was distributed, members of the community invited us to tour their small village. And so we did. We walked their sandy streets, admired the homes they had built, and listed to their needs. They have no source of water, no proper land for growing food, and families without the means to send their children to school.

As Hunter and I spent time with the team and the community at Blue Hills yesterday, the song "Broken Bread" by my new favorite band Rend Collective Experiment came to mind:

May I be broken bread, may I be poured out wine

May I incarnate, Your kindness Lord 

Spend my life Jesus, anyway You please 

Whether on great things, or what seems small 

Your will done your way

Your will done your way

Your will done your way

I will not fight You

Take me past the line that my heart draws

I will not fight You

Lead me further than I've gone before

I will not fight You

I'm abandoned to Your call

Do not let there be, any part of me

That’s untouchable

Unreachable

If you are coming to Haiti anytime soon and would like to serve the church at Blue Hills please contact Hunter and me via email at hunterandjillian@gmail.com.