Chicken Poop and Pastors

I was in Redemption Village visiting Pastor Alejandro and his family.

HANLEYWIKI - Redemption Village is a mostly Haitian village where New Missions sponsors a school program. There are about 200 homes, and they are all cinder block homes approximately 12 foot by 12 foot divided in the middle. Some have been added to while others the owners have divided in half and rented the other side to another family.

Pastor Alejandro and his wife Noelia, have five children. He is Dominican and pastors a Spanish-speaking church we hope to visit this Saturday. I have been visiting the three pastors that have churches in Redemption Village to begin planning the Health Center programs in this area. I was visiting with Alejandro with Kate and Melissa. There was a baby chick running around on the floor, and Pastor Alejandro picked it up and handed it to Kate so that she could hold it. As we were talking Kate and the kids were playing with the chick, and eventually Kate handed it to me. Melissa and I were talking outside the home on the way to the truck, and yep that Chicken pooped on my shirt. It's all in a days work here in the DR.

Quick Update

I have a lot to fill everyone in on, and really need to be working on a newsletter, but the animal update is:

Rats holding steady at 4, we are not counting the ones outside
Snakes up 1 to 7
Bats making a surge by 2 up to 3 Bats.

The most recent bat was not lucky enough to escape unharmed, one of our cats grabbed it before it could find it's way out of the house.

So we have:
Snakes 7
Rats 4
Bats 3