1st Day In Haiti!

Prayer requests:
* Boldness and strength for what God has in store!
* Carolyn just found out her daughter in law is in hospital for problems with pregnancy.

Praises:
We made it! It was a rough flight in to Port au Prince!

Update:
Very tiring day…we already see God at work here.


Saturday night we loaded up and left Bellevue at 6pm and arrived at the Super 8 at around 8:30 pm in Nashville. We grabbed a late meal at The Waffle House, our waitress was from Baltimore, go figure, head south and meet a yankee. We were able to get a few hours of sleep once we got settled. Our wake up call was for 2:30 am. All twenty-three of us loaded on one Church van and headed to the airport around 3:30am. Everything there went very smooth, and the flight to Miami was painless. We arrived in Miami ahead of schedule a few minutes before nine, were we relaxed until our flight left Miami at about 1:45 pm. The flight in was a little nerve racking, there was some unexpected turbulence, but we arrived safely. So we unloaded and worked our way through the Port au Prince customs (nothing like the USA). After we spent a good hour searching for all of our bags we loaded up the bus. Once we got out of customs we had our first encounter with the Haiti we have been hearing about. It was scary, sad and exciting at the same time. Words cannot really describe the sight of our group walking through the Port au Price gates past the needy people begging to help with our luggage. We made our way through the crowd were the body guards kept a perimeter around us while the pastor and his friends helped throw all of our luggage onto the back of the big yellow school bus (from Christian County – go figure). We then proceeded to head through town to the guest house (compound). Through town there are collapsed & shattered buildings. In and on the streets you see piles of rubble where residents have cleared their lots with the hope the government will come take the rubble away. This made it very difficult to move through the streets but again God gave us another safe journey. After arriving at the compound we unloaded the bus and made our way through the beautiful complex. We all claimed our resting places then gathered in the dinning hall where we ate a wonderful meal cooked by Marilyn and others. After dinner we met on the terrace to talk about tomorrow’s plan and prayed. Everyone is settling in now around 9 pm and letting there family members know we arrived safely. Praise God for our safe travel and continue to pray for us and for the thousands of people we will encounter this week.

Jordan Gray