Intro to Voodoo 101

On Tuesday, all three groups went to the same morning ministry sites as the day before, but a few people switched teams.  Charles took Keylie’s spot on the Purple Team and Keylie took his on the green team.  Kathy Campbell and Staci switched teams with Mark and Leo so that the Gold Team could have more men to help carry boxes.  In the afternoon, the Green Team went to a school to paint instead of to the house they were at on Monday.  The Gold Team sorted and carried lots and lots of boxes at the school they worked at on Monday, and the Purple team forged bonds with the children at the Boys and Girls Home.  The kids wanted to play with their hair, get hugs, and give them kisses.
 
After dinner, most of the group went on a Prayer Walk of the Bywater district from nine-thirty to midnight.  The Bywater is an area of the city where people actually practice voodoo—there is a “healing center,” a shop, and a satanic church.  There is also an alley where they invite people to come on Friday nights to a ceremony where someone invokes the main voodoo spirit to inhabit her body and people can ask her advice.  The team split into groups of two or three and walked the streets, praying at specific locations that were marked on the map.