Hello! I have just finished the first week of my
internship here at Engineering Ministries International in Colorado, where I
got to make a lot of great friendships and learned a lot.
As an internship team we grew closer together as we went on
hikes together, played team-building games, and prayed for one another. Today
all of the other teams besides our team and the Canada team left to go to eMi
offices in other countries. It was sad to see the other teams go, but the Canada team is staying with us for another
week, hooray!
Through orientation I learned a lot about cross-cultural
relationships, poverty, and designing for a developing country. For my design
project for Haiti, I met my project leader, Bob, and we discussed some of the
details of the trip we have so far. The ministry we are partnering with, God’s
Vision for Haiti, seems fairly new, and this is their first orphanage they are
building.
It sounds like we’ll be staying in beach houses and that this
ministry is concerned about taking really good care of us, which is a huge
blessing for our team. Please pray that we bless them as well with our
free-of-charge design services we bring, and pray for a great
ministry-engineering-architect relationship between the eMi team and God’s
Vision for Haiti. I am super excited and learning a bit of Haitian Creole to
prepare for my trip. Tomorrow I am starting work at the office!
Another prayer request is for our teams who are currently
traveling tonight and tomorrow. Pray that they make the trip with no hiccups
and that they get all of their luggage, especially the Uganda team, who ended
up with many boxes to bring to their office since shipping internationally is
expensive and unreliable. Praise God for the friendships He has already formed and will continue to grow throughout our internships!
Blessings, Nicole
