Day 1 in Haiti: Love the people

Hey everyone! We had a long but good day. Travel actually went pretty quick. We have about 40 people with about 56+ bags of 50 lbs or less that we checked -- not including our carry-on items.

We have wifi around the cafeteria area and are enjoying the slight breeze when it comes by ... I shared some photos on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=218959&id=502128180&l=6ed1097566.

God is so good. We are studying through Ephesians as a group. Tonight we talked about God's plan for us.

Dr. Wade from Southeastern Seminary shared: "What God is doing in the world He's doing with you in Haiti. ... God's plan is to unite all things in Him."

We are definitely going to be challenged this week. All of us are not used to this heat and humidity, especially in the fall temps in North Carolina.

It hasn't hit me yet -- what I have seen and heard today. The people desperately trying to survive in the midst of this challenge placed before them.

The area we are serving in felt the earthquake earlier this year but had very minimal damage from the quake. But there are so many needs. The children need to know God's love first and know the adoption that only He can offer. Some of them have parents who have died. Some have parents or relatives who have left them here because they can't take care of them. They go to school and learn the various subjects as well as have devotions two times today.

Earlier today, on the first leg of our trip I was able to share with a man from Jamaica about what we are doing and why.

God loves ALL the little children of the world. That includes me, a sinner saved by grace. But it also includes the children and the workers here.

Please continue to pray. This heat will wear on us all.

Pray for sleep. It is a different place, a different climate, different sounds, etc.

Pray for a productive day tomorrow. We already are facing some health issues on our team, from a lost voice to swollen legs.

Thank you for joining in this journey with me. May God bless you all!

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Praying for Haiti

Pack light.

Not allowed to carry more than what I can carry on the plane, my heart is pounding. So much to do before I leave. I ache for the people. Ever since the Jan. 12 earthquake I have been praying off and on for the people there.

I regret that I wasn't praying for them before then.

Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. It was the poorest before the earthquake. Afterwards .... just trying to imagine it leaves you speechless.

North Carolina Baptists have responded to many disasters. Haiti is one of them. Teams continue to go in working in various areas but mainly with Samaritan's Purse building temporary shelters and working medical clinics.

Monday I leave for this struggling country. Please join me in praying for the country. I will be traveling with Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

• Pray for the pastoral training team. They will be training approximately 30 pastors there. What a privilege to train God's workers in-country.
• Pray for the medical and dental teams. They will be facing some tough sights, smells and sounds.
• Pray for the kitchen team who have taken on the challenge of feeding the volunteers, pastors, orphans and staff.
• Pray for the sports, tutoring, VBS team that will be working with the orphans and leaders.
• Pray for the construction/miscellaneous team that has to be ready for any project that is thrown at them.
  
• Pray for the media team, that they will cover what is going on and be able to share the stories of the people there with the people back home.

Thank you for joining with me in prayer for me as well as my fellow volunteers. Please check back to see pictures and videos. I will be trying to update as often as possible.

Getting Ready

Tonight was our second meeting for the upcoming trip to Haiti. I will be going to Haiti Oct. 4-9 with a team from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and a Raleigh church. We are taking a rather large group and going to work with an orphanage in Montrouis. We have kitchen, medical, dental, sports/VBS/tutoring, pastoral training and media teams.

Guess which one I'm on?

If you guessed media, then you win the prize...

God has been so good ... I am thankful that I'm as healthy as I am. I'm working on getting caught up. That post in March this year was before I had to take a summer class, which took a lot of time.

Thank you so much for all your prayers. I am going to try to blog more regularly especially as the trip gets closer and hope to blog daily or close to it while I'm gone. The blog may appear on http://www.biblicalrecorder.org as well. I'm setting up a blog on the site there with the same name. I'll try to post in both places and hope to reach a wider audience.