Update and RAINS...and RAINS....

Hello from rain drenched northern Haiti!!

First, before the rain situation, I wanted to include an update on Savanah and the on going adoption.  Vero and Savanah did go to Port and did all the paperwork for the passport... the only word they were given on WHEN it will come, was, we'll call you.  So, AGAIN we are in the waiting mode.  I keep thinking back to when we had first talked to the lawyer (I think Savanah was only a few months old)... and he said, "this adoption will be quick since it's a family adoption."  With her biological aunt adopting her, it SHOULD have been.  Now she is 5 years and a couple of weeks old... hummm.. so this is quick?  As you can tell we need some prayers.  This waiting is so hard.  She keeps saying, "now mommy's coming and I can go home to Canana...?"  She doesn't put the D in Canada, it's another N.  When she was getting ready to go on the plane to Port au Prince, she asked if she was going to Canada then.  This kiddo wants to be with her family.  So you can see why prayers are needed, a LOT!

Tomorrow I may try to get some photos of the area here.  The rains have been horrid here in the north.  For the past week we have had a LOT of rain.  Mostly heavy but have also had some "gully washers" too.  There are so many, many homes flooded out, but also those that were washed away in the flooding.  And there have been lives lost, too.  It's a hard, hard time here in Haiti.  The roads are bad.  Last week we had been so happy to see they finally picked up the garbage on the roads... now all of the garbage from the mountain have washed down and it is even worse than before.  Back roads are about impassable.  And the airport is flooded.  The runway and tarmac are fine, but the rest is under water.  The MFI container is flooded out.  We have no idea about the boxes in it.  There are boxes for 20 different mission in there.  But the water is so high that security won't let us get near the container.  It's a safety situation right now. I've spent the morning trying to figure out how to deal with this.  Yes, we could pray the water didn't get into the container, but that doesn't see realistic. But we are still praying... we serve an awesome and willing God who can do things we simply can't believe.  So, that is where we are at... standing back and letting God deal with things till HE sees fit to let us continue with it.  So, pray with us for all of the above.

We were gearing up with buckets and now it seems we may have more needs than we had first thought.  But the Lord knows all about that too, so we will be working toward getting the buckets going and getting things organized to that end.  We have a family coming in, in 9 days who will be helping us with this and we praise God for that help. 

We've given you a lot to pray about, but we also want to add some praises, too.  We are thankful for the safe trip Vero and Savanah had to Port, even thought we aren't seeing the results yet.  We know God does.  We are praising God for the team at the dorm right now.  It's a medical team and they have seen so many people.  We praise God for simply being with us through all the situations we face on a daily basis here.  I just can't imagine doing it without Him at the helm.  Our electric has become very sporadic...but we praise him for our generator.  No, we don't have electricity as often as we did have, but we do have it enough to get some things done.  And we simply praise Him for all He does for us on a daily basis and how He cares for us even when we fail Him.  

Thank you for being there for us and for praying for us... it really, really is what keeps us going here on the mission field!!  Have a super, God blessed, God directed and God inspired day!!!