Monday, July 29, 2013

Hello my fellow listeners - tonight we have no photos to go along with our wonderful narrative - read on to find out why.
We are grateful for the landing of our plane, once extremely smooth at the Miami Airport, and a bit rougher in Haiti.  In the Miami airport we enjoyed a team meal at a sit down restaurant and did some final prep work for pushing through customs.  Of course those of you familiar with the normal routine of things here in Titanyan it was rather normal and uneventful, we got to our guest house and things went wonderfully well in the travel process.  We filled our Tap Tap, caged in truck, with 17 people and 39 luggage bags.  Which made for some fun positions and close quarters.  Nevertheless, we made it to the house in about 20 minutes, traveling at about 5 to 18 miles per hour over some incredibly rocky and undulating pseudo roads.
The unexpected troubles all came about in the airports we were in.  First in the Miami Airport, Rachel and Lauren Larue were stopped at the gate as we were boarding the plane 38 minutes prior to take off with a problem. While the rest of the passengers were waiting for take off the two young ladies were being told they we unable to make the next leg of the trip because the plane had been over booked and their tickets were the ones that were chosen ass the sacrificial lambs.  After about 20 minutes of holding up the take off American Airlines determined that they would not be able to take the next flight out and they would have to join the team the next evening.  That caused a third member of the team, Chris Larue, to join them for some older wiser counsel as they determined the next best course of action, securing the earliest flight for Tuesday morning (which has now been determined as a noon).
Trial number two: When getting through customs and awaiting our luggage we were unable to locate four of our luggage bags and waited another hour  and a half just to try all our best detective work, all to no avail.  In addition, one of our key players Dobee Narloch, had earlier, in Mpls, checked one of her carry on bags to make room for folks that wouldn't have enough space for their carry on (very kind gesture). Nevertheless, this act of kindness was soon taken advantage of as she received her piece of luggage back in Haiti, the one carrying our teams camera (her own camera), just to find out IT and a few other things were stolen.  Therefore, no camera... except a few phones.
Needless to say, there was some unexpected discouragement that floated around the group due to our circumstances at the airport. However, we ended the night with some wonderful worship thanks to Scott Brophy and his incredible selection of praise songs all with words typed up and packets for each of us, not to mention a wonderful mini speaker that enabled us to sing along to the real worship tune at a robust volume. God was definitely honored tonight as we lifted his name to the heights.
Lord willing the Larues will reach us tomorrow, and our excitement will continue as God guides our way.  Our plan it to willingly lay down our own will and pick up His again tomorrow.  Sleep well - I finally need to get to sleep as everyone else is in bed, I just felt like someone should fill the group that is keeping tabs on us and steadily in prayer up to date on our day.
Trent

1 comment:

  1. Thank you Trent! This helps all of us back home to know how to pray more specifically! Asking God to reunite Chris and the girls to you soon!
    May God continue to be glorified through you all as you lay your lives before him and follow Him on this Haitian adventure!
    Sending hugs all around!
    Julie M

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