Update

I spoke this morning to one of the Haitian Pastors that we have worked with in Haiti. Part of his ministry is taking care of widows and orphans. Right now he is housing and feeding 12 widows. He said there are many more in his area that are in desperate need but he doesn't have enough money and room to take care of them. I asked what his other immediate needs were for us to be praying and agreeing with him about. He said he is building a bigger building and right now those are his needs. His building needs a roof on it an of course other things done to finish the building. Please join with us in lifting up this Pastor.

Planning a new trip

We are in the process of planning another trip to Haiti. At this time we are planning a trip probably in February of 2009. I know you are saying well why do you have your luggage packed already. You don't know my husband. We have trial runs many months before a trip to Haiti. We weigh and pack and pack and weigh and repack and reweigh. OK I think you get the picture. But with the way the airlines are I am here to tell you that you have to have your act together when you fly anymore. I remember one trip we took and we all showed up at the airport and as you can see we many times use those big plastic tubs. Well the lady at the counter told us that one particular tub was overweight. She said we needed to remove something from it. So we use plastic ties to secure the lids. (we drill holes through the lid and through the edge of the tub and we put those plastic ties through the hole.) So we had to cut the ties off the tub and open this tub open. (we always carry extra ties just for this purpose) Well, this woman made us take one can of tomatoes out of this tub and said there that is ok. So here I am standing there with a can of tomatoes in my hand. I asked her what she wanted to do with the can of tomatoes and she said she didn't want them I needed to do something with them. So I asked her what she wanted me to do with them and she said I could just put them into my carry on luggage.??????? Doesn't that still make my total luggage weigh the same I mean move one can from one piece of luggage to another really didn't make sense to me. So not wanting to be the reason that the plane crashed due to being over weight I put the can of tomatoes in the nearby trash can. Now you know why we weigh and pack and pack and weigh. You never want to be caught in the airport holding that can of tomatoes. I was concerned that airport security would think I was trying to create a tomato attack. I did not want to be the first person going to jail for that issue.

So back to our trip we were thinking about going in January but the Haitian Pastor we will be working with is not available in January he has things planned so I think that is why we will be moving the trip to February. This trip there will be either 4 or 6 of us going. We plan to conduct a pastors conference. The pastors really enjoy learning new things of the bible and new things to teach their congregations. Plus we will wind up taking each pastor a little gift something for them to take home and to be able to use for a long time to come. We have a lot of planning to get done and I know it seems like a long time to plan but the time will be here faster than we think.