Another suddenly in our lives. Thursday morning at 2:30 am Judy's brother called to tell us that their mother had a heart attack and wasn't expected to live through the day. We immediately started putting things in order, packing and calling the airlines to find out how quick we could make it to KY. We said our goodbyes to all our staff and headed toward the PAP airport around 7am. We flew to Fort Lauderdale....PTL! there were 3 seats left on the plane. As we cleared customs and immigration there we received another phone call that she had experienced another heart attack. We switched airlines....Ft Lauderdale to Tampa, Tampa to Nashville. As we landed in Tampa we received word that she had taken her final flight to be with her Heavenly Father...Sad that we didn't get to see her one more time but rejoiciing that she was no longer in pain.
Our week before had been calm as the political factions decided to wait until after Christmas to do their manifesting. The mission team from New Work Fellowship in Hopkinsville, Ky voted to come on down any way knowing that they might spend Christmas in Haiti. Great group. They worked pouring well pump bases, repairing and installing pumps, cleaning out containers on the property, ministering in the Burn Clinic and packing over 500 back packs and sacks for Christmas. What fun to see the faces of the children as they received these backpacks filled with hygiene items, toys and candy.
David Jr. and Betsy arrived on Dec 15th. We had meetings with Samaritan's Purse leadership to map out the direction for both ministries in the coming year. It was great to have them there for a few days not knowing that only 4 days after they left we would be returning to KY.
Please pray for our entire family....the ones we left behind in Haiti and the ones here as we say our last goodbyes to my Mom.
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