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Continue reading →: Happy New Year – in advance!
Here we are, once again, sitting at the airport for a three-hour wait until we board Jet Blue to travel to Santiago. Our original flight for 8:45 has now been moved to 10:24. At least this time, we’re sitting down instead of shifting our weight from foot to foot like…
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Continue reading →: Another Way Home!
Up by 5:00 this morning, we hurriedly got ready and made our way to the Ft. Lauderdale airport. Turning in the rented car, then giving Gabe one last hug, we made our way to Spirit Airlines for the flight back home. Seeing several lines that had no distinct order whatsoever…
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Continue reading →: A Poem from Agape Flights
This came in an e-mail from Agape Flights, the mail service that brings mail and boxes to us once a week. We are so grateful for their longstanding service to the missionaries here on the field in Haiti. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. We’re so grateful…
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Continue reading →: A Sense of Normality
After over a week of chaos in Haiti, things are finally beginning to show a sense of normality again. We had wondered when the roadblocks, riots, and strikes would ever end? It has been refreshing to hear the sound of vehicles passing outside our gate knowing that we can once…
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Continue reading →: #Giving Tuesday
Hi Everyone! I am just now able to post this because I am writing from the Christophe Hotel where there is a good internet signal. Such is life in Haiti! We hope you can help us on this strategic day of giving. If you can, go to the link and…
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Continue reading →: Give a Birthday Wish, Give to Feed a Child, or Give to Black Friday
Happy Birthday, Prit! Today was the first day in over a week that we left our compound. It was also timely in that we were able to go to town for lunch and celebrate Prit’s 63rd birthday. Happy Birthday, hubby! It’s good to see businesses open and people circulating, but…
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Continue reading →: Happy Thanksgiving to Us!
Today, we are celebrating Thanksgiving. No, we did not forget that tomorrow is officially Thanksgiving. Usually the reason behind something like this is a chain reaction of events. Such is the case today. In Haiti, one needs to be pretty self-sufficient in many things. Because of the poor amount of…
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Continue reading →: Unsettled Times
Last week, a powerful political opponent of President Jovenel Moïse visited a famous historical monument located at Vertières outside of Cap-Haitian. In disdain, he removed the standing red, white, and blue flag and mounted the former red and black flag in its place. The red and black flag resembled the…
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Continue reading →: Take 10!
After traveling from Jacksonville, NC, to Portland, OR, for our MFI Conference, we visited one of our partner churches in Tacoma, WA. We had a wonderful time with all our friends at Trinity Church, then headed back to Miami, FL, so that we could make our way back to Haiti…
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Continue reading →: 5.9 Earthquake in Haiti
https://www.foxnews.com/world/at-least-11-dead-in-haiti-following-magnitude-5-9-earthquake-that-gave-rise-to-panic We are in Tacoma getting ready for a service at Trinity Church. Tonight, we will catch the ”red-eye” to Miami and should be back in Haiti by tomorrow. It’s been a great week spent with friends and sitting under wonderful teaching from the MFI Conference. Last night, as many…
