Saturday, February 6, 2010

Update from Haiti

Just a quick catch up.Things have gone great- only by prayer and the grace of God.We made it through customs in the Dominican Republic easily. Then we got a taxi to the bus station and arrived in Dajabon by 7 pm. We met Arcenio and he told us he did not have a truck for the next day. We prayed for transportation We didn't buy supplies because it would be too hard carrying it all on the bus. We cleared customs at 9am and got a bus at 10. We called Jeremy on the way he said there were flights out of Cap Haitien. At 3pm we were on a flight to Port Au Prince. At 3:45 we were in Port Au Prince. Leon picked us up @ 4pm- Praise the Lord. We went directly to Cite Soleil. We slept on the roof at Leon's Wednesday night. Today we went to Citi Soleil and Jeff Graham helped a medical clinic near there. John, Dave, and I went to buy food. We bought 16 K pounds of food- enough for 3 thousand families. We asked the workers to load the truck for free. After singing several songs with them they agreed. That is 7and 1/2 tons on the first load. When the truck left the depot we were going to get in the back and didn't. It turned left, started up a hill and stopped, but the brakes couldn't hold. The truck came roaring back and took out a gate and part of a wall and pinned a worker. He was ok. We were able to fix the gate and no one got too upset. The 2nd trip was eaiser. We plan to go to St. Marc for one day. Arcenio had to leave early, his wife is in the hospital. Please pray for her. Jeff Badgero

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