A missionary from Haiti’s call for help following hurricane’s destruction

I  feel like Nehemiah when he heard of the destruction of Jerusalem, and he was in a foreign land. I am in Port au Prince, Haiti but the villages in the areas where we have churches are in dire need. What little they had, is now taken away!! (At this writing my husband, is still stranded in the village due to washed away bridges.) Every village where we have planted a church has been damaged by the hurricane. All the roads to these villages have been destroyed. The roads and bridges need to be rebuilt or repaired.  Marche Kabrit has no water. The water source has been destroyed. We need to get food (bags of rice, corn, beans) to the people. Right now they are eating the animals that have died during Hurricane, and the fruit from the fallen trees.
This is an email from a missionary serving in Haiti, which was struck by Hurricane Fay and now Gustav. These are the some of the desperate needs Agape Flights exists to meet. More than 50 people were killed after tropical storm Gustav struck Haiti on August 26. Please keep the missionaries, the Haitian and Dominican people and Agape Flights in your prayers.

Danny is safely in NY!

Danny arrived safely in upstate NY on Sunday. The families within the church body, affilated with the school, offer housing for the bible college students. I love that! He is staying with a family, the Banks, who have adult children. Danny said it was a lot like being at the Peters house in NC. They are the family that the boys stayed with to finish out the school year when Dan and I headed to Venice. He said it gets to around 40 degrees in the morning and he wants his parka and anything wool...lol. Please pray for him. That he would have godly discernment, that he would desire God's will above all else and that he would drive carefully in the snow...make that at all times.
Well I am off to the grocery store, Jack is making dinner tonight. I decided after his brother gave himself food poisoning, that Jack making dinner once a week would be a good life skill. He is making Quesadillas and chips. Ole!

Soccer has started.

Tonight was Jack's first soccer game of the year...and it poured for more than half of the game. In the pictures above you can see that Jack, and Dan are soaked. In the third photo you can see the beautiful rainbow that followed the rains. Jack's team lost 6- 0. I think there are 5 high schoolers and the rest are 6th - 8th graders, but they are playing as a varsity team. Jack was goalie and gave it everything he had. We are praying for a much drier game next Friday. God bless!

August 19, 2008

Hurricane/tropical storm Fay came inland about 25 miles south of us. So all we experienced was a little gusty winds. Thank you Lord!
I (Kate) went to the hangar with Dan today and while he worked I cleaned the kitchen/staff dining area. I also helped the Cargo Manager/Pilot, Jeff Yannucceillo, load the plane for tomorrows run to Haiti & the DR. It was very interesting...the airplane we are currently using, a Cessna Chancellor 414, has a cargo hold in the nose and one in each wing, I was not aware of that, it adds quite a bit of usable load space.
Thank you to everyone who prayed for us during Fay's visit to the gulf coast of Florida. We appreciate it!

August 18, 2008

The first day of school and our first hurricane warning. It looks like Hurricane Fay may come for a visit. The second day of school has been deemed a hurricane day. When I saw on the school calendar they had hurricane days rather than snow days I laughed. We escaped last year untouched, Praise God! Please pray for the areas that are hit by Fay. For anyone watching this unfold Venice is locate about half way between the 2 indented areas on the gulf coast of Florida. (Fort Myers and St Pete/Tampa). Our plans are currently up in the air. We may go inland to stay with some friends but are unsure as of right now. We'll keep you posted.