Sunday Update on Haiti

• So...only one more day and they'll be home!!!!! I talked to Kathy again tonight - woohoo!
• Apparently their computer is working again after a bad storm. All you parents out there - assume this is why they couldn't contact you and not because they were having too much fun. :o) However, Janelle, your father made it quite clear today - from the pulpit no less! - that you are in trouble for not contacting them regardless. He might have meant you should have sent up flares to signal your safe arrival at the hotel each day, but I'm not sure. :o)
• So...apparently the 24 hour thing is going through the team...and hopefully will stay in the Miami airport - yuck! Kathy's doing better, though.
• She got to go with seven others this morning to a church about 30 minutes away. They drove through 'a market, a creek, an actual river and much more'. Not sure what the 'much more' was...I shall leave that to your imaginations.
• Oh, I think they took the kids to the beach today, but we didn't get to talk about that (she chose to use her last precious minutes on her phone card talking to...me! :o).
• They leave tomorrow morning at 6:30 am for the loooooooooooong drive back to Port-au-Prince. Then they fly into Miami at 3:30 pm and should arrive in Orlando at 7:30 pm...see you all soon! I can't wait to hear all the stories!!!!!!! :o)
• Oh, and I have a non-Haiti item to post. I found this quote by Spurgeon from the Morning and Evening and absolutely love it. I read it all the time. Don't we serve an amazing God? He stands ready to help us in our hour of need. Whether that's an exhausting trip leaving a country you've grown to love...or preparing for 700 women at a regional ladies retreat...or disciplining your child for the 50th time today on the same issue...or looking for a job after weeks of not being able to find one... Whatever the circumstance - He is will help us.
• "I will help thee, saith the Lord" Isaiah 41:14
  "This morning let us hear the Lord Jesus speak to each one of us: 'I will help thee'. It is but a small thing for Me, thy God, to help thee. Consider what I have done already. What! not help thee? Why, I bought thee with My blood. What! not help thee? I have died for thee; and if I have done the greater, will I not do the less? Help thee! It is the least thing I will ever do for thee; I have done more, and will do more.....If thou hadst need of a thousand times as much help, I would give it thee; thou requirest little compared with what I am ready to give.....O my soul, is not this enough? Dost thou need more strength than the omnipotence of the United Trinity? Dost thou want more wisdom than exists in the Father, more love than displays itself in the Son, or more power than is manifest in the influences of the Spirit? Bring hither thine empty pitcher! Surely this well will fill it. Haste, gather up thy wants, and bring them there--thine emptiness, thy woes, thy needs. Behold, this river of God is full for thy supply; what canst thou desire beside? Go forth, my soul, in this thy might. The Eternal God is thine helper!" Morning and Evening, January 16
• Goodnight, my friends!
• P.S. Is anyone else having trouble figuring out why all of a sudden you can't have a space between paragraphs? What am I doing wrong?!?!?! So I use bullets tonight...