Knit Wits a Rollin'

Day 1 & 2 have been great experiences. The women are really catching on with the skills and opening up to us.A typical day starts with an 8-honk car trip to the church. 8 to avoid hitting other cars or pedestrians. The women now greet us by name with a kiss on our cheek. They even show us the work they completed after the previous class.Yesterday the ladies learned how to complete the baby booties and to cast on. Their typical shyness about pictures turned into radiant, ready grins to picture commemorate their completed booties (sadly our camera pics aren't cooperating with downloads; we're showing phone pics). Terri bible storied Peter's miraculous escape from prison in Acts. The ladies seemed to agree their is great power in prayer.Today we set out to teach the ladies to make yarn out of used t-shirts. (Google t-shirt yarn, if you want to learn more). Kathy demonstrated how to cut shirts into continuous 1-inch strips. Then they had great fun stretching the strips into yarn. Even some children couldn't resist joining in! We then taught them to make wash clothes out of this yarn. Then Gloria told the story about the Samaritan woman at the well. Good discussion resulted. Then we gave each lady about 10 t-shirts (thank you donors).On our way home from class we got to go to the market. Pretty impressive variety...and ask any of us the "unique" foods we saw there. Terri couldn't resist snapping photos.Now we're resting at home and making plans for our final class tomorrow.Thank you supporters for believing in this mission. We trust this will be a reoccurring invitation from our Haitian friends and community.Please pray for rain (ongoing drought) and pray for the city electricity to come back on...we're slowly draining generator reserves. And of course, please pray for the lady knitters.~Gloria, Terrri & Kathy