{"id":3745,"date":"2011-08-13T22:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3745"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:57","slug":"vbs-in-haiti-pics-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3745","title":{"rendered":"VBS in Haiti Pics (Part Two!)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg5950xFfKD7Vjq3doLLcDkIEoC9U1vO4GbQ_ku2az2bGuv7VqxZYVebTjEnAoW5MKTtKkDzj8FY-fY9j3uAJEM_5V189JH3BAE0tom3AYmAje_pwn8WHTSjrVwOxzEqAP7DHuYysFT_xs\/s400\/Haiti+July+2011+006.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dats spoke the international language: Soccer!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjhEAemOZ8fQa_C2DDTrH8mU2cuMQzfa5n5Fcri2xz8qIfVUerC3aRnDS06fyxBECD_pYdrVFNw0_G35P3jmRl0SG5mpoQhZxeokONTuNDVfQuOuB0PvaHlcYo1TdP4ew8DBm0aQ3msKZs\/s400\/Haiti+July+2011+025.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pastor Herode\u00a0seemed to be an incredibly gifted man of God.\u00a0 His love for the people and their love for him were both quite evident.\u00a0 If he walked into the sanctuary for VBS and heard a child crying, he would have that child within his fatherly arms in seconds and the child would be content.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjwcsmSaTZpmJqFBE62dxK3hQAlgI3ziQ5d2C-Nv7GVFYvDVya3F51BPJuQjge524Dg6v9zreezAVsCXvMlqsQ_RWWSwTSISloeXvRX3rmmYu47AoqzNcdMEbfYIMX0Il4vb9xM51zqSts\/s400\/Haiti+July+2011+032.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Even the smallest Haitians were fascinated by The Princess&#039; hair!\u00a0 The Princess couldn&#039;t walk by another child without having her hair &#8211; or her wrist! &#8211; grabbed without warning.\u00a0 She was pretty good-natured about it, but it usually sent her running to my arms.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi2ia8rUmzvAnwXaV207wh-ds6GW_qhSrFdUyRyH3fjbqBPNKfmK06VmWrWg0RMlIlFsNaUINxTKuyOjSvkPvc-x79F5GIyu-z67SGWjXWgUp1-HJNpCxIq6oS0n9Yw8vAKEULaql2Eq6E\/s400\/Haiti+July+2011+036.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhRlT7Oip4D6eJ50LIcL_5ykom7oaQsfLH9ChOHC1qSj54iyTiJ2rRahBU4T2Mfw_VphAu2RanJKCJrQ4sMiEnbnLNBug8H0145XLNpLbsJHKdfpAG58f_1np9swqQ_E5Zwq1AaWH45YG8\/s400\/Haiti+July+2011+039.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Pastor&#039;s wife put together some incredibly beautiful and tasty meals for us!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjjF6H1roHtYsGiZPp5l9TQdt18oKWGphxPisUtu_98BHJOqsOmXkw_7LHad0gaCnfSOYDgcMIWJo75ofPa7VjOA0zWDQ_xCjloQVbWGlkAQ_YRDMVxkps9yFKBcnXtaBSOUQxPBJSHoQQ\/s640\/Haiti+July+2011+037.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Since the church wanted to feed their VBS kids and the Spokane church had provided ,000, the church had to limit VBS to 150 kids.\u00a0 Some kids who weren&#039;t on the official list still came into the sanctuary and joined in on the music and teaching anyway.\u00a0 Others, like this little boy, watched and listened from outside the windows of the church building.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiQ0FGtB0uY-QAmEYCsbRFjfbIaozfVN9yEjCufAwVt9UtAlGtVMP5nfrw5V5dPRTP58-K4PsCg2-fC4w3dCuKpPH_34XbGlsSe1mxjt0Arc7v-HSUHUmE19j2rr5X9N4N9ceAubPptLjU\/s640\/Haiti+July+2011+038.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I love this picture because it&#039;s both incredibly sad and so awesomely hopeful at the same time.\u00a0 This is how Haiti itself is &#8211; in my mind, anyway: \u00a0Resources are scarce, but there is a hunger for things of God!\u00a0 The Haitian church is alive and well &#8230; but could do so much more as they have support from their brothers and sisters who have more&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3752,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745\/revisions\/3752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}