HO HUM STUFF-NOT VERY EXCITING

Mission to Haiti – October 9, 2011

We are now on our way back to Haiti with the SUV once again loaded to the roof with everything from soup to the kitchen sink, while not quite, but very close.  We are driving to Fort Pierce, Florida where we will board a Missionary Flights International DC 3 (World War II vintage) and fly from there to Cap Haitien with a stop-over in the Bahamas to refuel.

As we did last year we will be hosting visiting professors who have come to the Emmaus Biblical Seminary to teach 2 week intensive courses of approximately 30 hours on everything from the Pauline Epistles to Family Counselling.  However, unlike last year where the time frame as to when the visiting professors were to teach was spread out through the academic year, this year we will have visiting professors for 4 weeks during the month of November, and 6 weeks during the months of March and April.  This will allow us to come home in early December, return to Haiti in mid-February, and return home again in mid-April.

This trip will also allow us to visit the 4 schools and orphanage that St. Andrew’s supports through its Haiti Mission in partnership with the Pastors, School Directors and Orphanage Administration so that we can then report back to the many people both within St. Andrew’s and the wider community who provide the much needed financial support that makes this mission a possibility.  We are still not sure whether you all realize what a great and amazing thing you are doing for the children of Haiti.  Without you the vast majority of these children would never see the inside of a school, let alone learn how to read, write or do their numbers.  Without you the vast majority of these children would be nothing more than one more statistic of Haiti’s failure to address the most basic needs of its children.  Without you the vast majority of these children would lack any hope of a future that was not filled with hunger, sickness and desperation.

This is why we encourage you to support the “Race for the Children of Haiti” run/walk on Saturday, October 15^th.  The $10,000 in revenue that HEARTS hopes to raise from the run/walk represents 25% of the total amount that is sent to Haiti each year.  Get a race form from the church office; find a few friends, co-workers or family to sponsor you.  Or, if you are unable to walk or run find someone who will be and sponsor them. 

We will be doing our run/walk in Haiti very early Saturday morning to avoid the heat of the day.  We have asked family and friends who know how passionately we feel about the children of Haiti to sponsor us and they have been very generous.  Wouldn’t it be great if instead of the $10,000 that HEARTS is hoping to raise, more than $12,000 to $15,000 were raised instead?  With your support, enthusiasm and prayers anything is possible.   Why?  Because nothing is impossible with God.

As we leave Dorothy is still recouping from surgery and tires very easily so we also ask that you continue to keep us in your prayers and pray specifically for strength for us both in order to get the guest house in ship shape prior to guests arriving.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU ALL.  We will try to find a Thanksgiving meal on Monday in Florida but if not, we can still celebrate ALL our blessings.  We will find joy in the God of our salvation. 

The peace of Christ,

www.jdmhaiti.blogspot.com

PS.  If I knew how to use our new computer properly I'd have more pics.  Be patient.  Technology is not our forte!