Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Greetings, well today is Wednesday, and we were blessed to have Pastor Codo from Salt & Light Baptist Church with us the last few days. We flew him in from Haiti for IBC's emphasis on missions weekend. We had an awesome dinner on Saturday night, with foods from all around the world.

Pastor Codo was our guest speaker. He did a great job with his message on missions and finished it up on Sunday as he also preached the Sunday service. He is such a Godly man with a desire to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It was such a joy to spend some time with him and talk about Haiti and our upcoming trip. Tuesday night he attended our Haiti Team meeting and we planned out our trip with him.

We will be holding two medical clinics this time instead of only one. You could have one every day of the week there and see fifty to a hundred each day, the need is that great. It's not fair that medical supplies are so expensive. We will also be helping the men work on finishing the church building by installing iron window grates. About thirty of these need to be purchased and installed.

Visitation to the church families and visiting an orphanage are also on the agenda. Oh yeah, I just told Chris and the girls Pastor Codo is taking us to St. James Pool, which is probably the most active voodoo worshiping site, and on a Thursday, which is the most active day. One of our team members, who will remain nameless, was a little upset. He said "do you mean the place where we barley escaped with our lives? Awesome."

Anyway, I can't wait to go back and minister to those people and let them know that they are not forgotten even in our recession. Please keep us in prayer, pray for Gods will to be done, and please consider giving. I promise you it won't hurt...

Monday, November 2, 2009

Haiti Missions Trip video

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Sunday, November 1, 2009

Well here goes my first post. I was asked if I would return to Haiti on another missions trip. Of course I accepted. I don't know if a day goes by that I don't think of the trip in 2008. The agenda is going to be pretty similar. We will be going to provide a free medical clinic, which was a huge success last time with over a hundred people being seen and treated. We ministered to our brothers and sisters in Christ at Salt and Light and provided them with food and building materials. We, the 2008 Haiti team, adopted a philosophy of: Live Simply So Others Can Simply Live. My Pastor's son Joe caught wind of me going back and told me that he wanted to go with me. He is only seventeen years old but he is very mature and a good Godly young man. I petitioned for him to go and they accepted his application. I hope he doesn't snore, well, louder than me anyway. I believe God will used him mightily. Please pray that we will be able to raise the money necessary to cover our own expenses and enough to fulfill God's plans for us in Haiti.