Feb 13, 2014 for (Jan 2014 & 1/2 of Feb 2014))

The year started off with a bang.   Casey Dean arrived on Dec 30, 2013 to intern with us for a year after making 12 short term trips.  (Watch those short term trips....Haiti gets in your blood) .  Pat and Andy Richardson arrived on Dec. 31, 2013.  They have been many times for week long stays but felt the Lord wanted them to come for a month.  These guys are GREAT....they work so well together and their heart is to make the homes of the missionaries more eye appealing and comfortable.  They decided to come and  tackle Staff 1 house.  What a project!  They came with all the materials to make curtains, bedspreads, covers for chairs, pillows, paint, they refurbished furniture.... the list goes on. It would be hard to tell you all that they accomplished.  Attaching a few pictures for you to see.

Jan.1, 2014 a team of 23 Americans, Canadians and Haitians arrived to do a week long Youth leaders Conference.  This was overseen by Chris and Sheryl Brumley/ Camp Barnabas &  Carl and Maya Gilles  with National Wesleyan Leaders.  It was great to see how the Word was poured into the 200 youth leaders as well as times of worship and play.
Jan.14, 2014 a church women's group came to spend the day in Bible study, worship, prayer food and fellowship.
We are always blessed to guest house for a group called Global Compassion located in MO. They work in the northwest of Haiti and use our facilities to overnight coming and going.  This year they had 25 on the first team..left 5 people here on compound to paint, repair vehicles, do home schooling for missionary children and gather up supplies for the next group coming in.  At the end of the week these 5 plus the second team all went to the northwest to minister.
Bethel Church from CO arrived on Jan 24th.  So sorry to miss them as David had to be at a special called Executive Board meeting for GO on Jan 25th in Tupelo, MS.  Because we were not going to be here for the New Work Fellowship church team from Hopkinsville, KY  we took the time to drive to their church from Owensboro, KY to share with them and take them some items to bring into Haiti.  Appreciate all those that came on the two teams and the work accomplished.
Jan. 27th   Monday we left Owensboro to head for Agape Flights in Venice, FL to drop off 453 lbs of items that could not be shipped except in a special (expensive) container.  We drove as far as Nashville and received a call from a friend we were going to see in Atlanta.  He said "DON'T COME"... Good advice. We decided to call Tommy and Becky Scott to see if we could spend the night with them.  Good move....even the next day Atlanta was shut down until Friday.  We turned around on Tuesday and came back to Owensboro. We tried again.  This time we were going to leave Owensboro on Monday morning as we needed to be in Tupelo on Tuesday for MOT. .  Sunday we were dressed and ready to go to church.  David decided to check the weather station. OH NO!  winter storm starting at noon. We changed clothes, loaded the car and took off. toward MS.  We landed in AL that night and visited the Richardson's at their home in Russellville, AL.   We were able to cram all our classes of MOT into Tuesday morning so we could head down to Venice to drop off the items.  We spent the three days visiting friends and family along the way to and from FL.  Items delivered at Agape we were ready to head back north.  Had the opportunity to visit with Ben and Ruth Ann Yantis and then in Atlanta we had lunch with Pastor Kelly's daughter Kernyne, who is in university there.  Arrived back in Owensboro Friday night at 7pm....Finished  2,210 miles since Sunday. Our total time in the US was 19 days....we traveled 3,900 miles.  WHEW!!!! glad to be back home.