The view out the Cream Van window. If Child Sponsorship had a mascot it would be the Cream Van. I have traveled in this van to one of our schools every day for the past two weeks to work on delivering gifts, letters, and our Spring Correspondence. For us on the Haitian side of Child Sponsorship, sending out our Spring Correspondence means going to each school and letting our sponsored kiddos draw a picture and write a message to the person that sponsors them to go to school. We have 4 Mission of Hope schools, and 13 partner schools. Some of those schools are in the mountains and up unpaved mountain roads. Sometimes we get to take a sponsor with us for a visit, but recently it's been me and our Haitian staff. You can't really read on the unpaved mountain roads, and when the guys start speaking Creole, there's really nothing else I can do in the van except look out the window. The Cream Van is a vehicle for hope and life transformation that comes through the education sponsorship provides. Sometimes we joke about the Cream Van being embarrassing; like the van that you never wanted to be seen in when you got dropped off in middle school. The door rattles ,and third gear is loud, it smells like wet dog because they rinse it out with water each night, but it takes us where we need to go. And along the way, the Lord graciously gives me these long rides to mountain schools that give me time to think and pray and soak in the beauty the hand of God has created. These are all iPhone pics through the dusty window of the van, so you'll have to excuse me. But they're real, and a glimpse into my daily life here.
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