We've arrived...

Hello everyone from Cap Haitien!!! We arrived safe and sound at about noon today after a travail yesterday! Our flights went well but once arriving in Orlando we found out that Allan (and Lauraly) Standford and Corey Fleming had a fender bender. Fortunately no one was significantly injured and Lauraly was able to drive the vehicle home safely. The other 7 of us decided to get a bite to eat and thinking we would then be at our hotel and off to sleep within another hour or so, came out of the restaurant to find we had no headlights. Well...long wait, made short for your benefit....Tim, our tow-truck driver delivered a replacement vehicle and we finally arrived at our hotel just after midnight.

This morning after weighing in at MFI in Fort Pierce (wow, were we heavy...ok, the baggage was) we loaded into our cargo plane and we were off to Haiti! The weather is sunny and 80 degrees with a nice breeze! We arrived by noon and waited for the Customs Officer(s) to deliver the bad news...after all we weighed in quite heavily with MFI. The next hour's wait was worth it. Between Pat Moore, Pastor Saintil and Alain, our Haitian friends/family, we left the airport with ZERO dollars in custom's fees! Can you say Praise God??

Really, God has been good to us so far this trip, through the ups/downs of the past 2 days. We have a wonderful group and I know we will have a wonderful time getting to know each other better and working for our God and King! Andy should be posting a few pics for you all to enjoy later.

Pat and Clark, Alain and Enoch, Valerie, Jovite and Mene and Claudette are all doing very well. They are indeed family to us here! God has taken us and brought us together as His family from different places and experiences. And it's all about Him!

So tomorrow we will be hanging at the house doing some work projects due to a change in plans. Pastor Noel stopped by today to say that there was a chance that there might be a manifestation (protest) in Cap, which meant that we could be stoned or hassled if we were to try and drive through and out of town. It is a political season with elections around the corner so, taking his concern in stride, we will head to Terrier Rouge on Monday instead.

Please pray that our work here never outways our shining for God...our part in glorifying Him. Pray that all we do will be a blessing to Him whom we love and serve and to the people we encounter each day. Praise to Him who has carried us here this day for His purposes!

Laura