Dad in Haiti, Part 2

I can not tell you how much my family appreciates the outpouring of support- emails, Facebook, blog comments, tweets, phone calls- for my dad while he’s ministering in Haiti.  I am glad that you- my readers- feel more connected to the situation by what I am sharing.  I agree, until dad went down, I was quite removed from the situation too.  I love the excitement I hear in my dad’s voice when he calls us.  It is contagious!  Today in church, our pastor said, “There is no better feeling in the world than when the Holy Spirit uses YOU to minister to someone.”  Isn’t that the truth?!  I think that’s exactly why dad is so excited, and why his excitement is absolutely contagious.  I am telling you, I want to be there!

It’s sad to me that when you are on a trip like Haiti, you look for the miracles in everything.  Do you realize how many miracles happen on a daily basis that we loose sight of or simply ignore?  I’ll share the latest pictures, but NBC provided my dad’s team with cases of water today.  A total miracle, and yes, they noticed it as such.  Also, the navy came in.  Say what you want about our country, but God bless America!  Seriously.  They brought in enough meals to feed 20,000 people for 3-4 days.  And, they gave them to dad’s team to distribute.  Can you imagine the joy of handing out food to hungry families who haven’t eaten in days?  I bet the Bible story of the disciples feeding the crowd fish now has an entirely new meaning to dad.  Dad also said they got the water filters up and running.  You should have heard his voice (I could hear him even though he was talking to my mom- yelling with excitement, rather).  “There is nothing better than the site of clean water!”  He said the people were so happy about the water, that they were jumping up and down with excitement.

Something that makes me laugh, dad keeps showing all of the Haitians Harper’s picture.  I guess the proud grandfather in him doesn’t change no matter where he goes.  He says they keep saying, “Il est tres beau!”  Which translates:  He is so handsome!  Isn’t that precious?  By the way, how amazing is God that my family went to language school 21 years ago to learn French?  Who would have ever guessed how handy dad’s French would be for such a time as this.  God is so good!

Here are the latest pictures.  Please keep all the comments coming, dad (and my whole family) is reading them and is so encouraged!

Water filtration system up and running- 6,000 gallons cleaned a day.

The water NBC donated to dad's team- 2 cases!

Does this break your heart, or what? One of the many, many orphans.

They gave the guards their Texas Baptist Men's chaplain vest. They wear them proudly!

Navy and Marines releasing food at port to dad's group. What a blessing!

3 truckloads of food from the Navy

Haiti boy proudly wearing his vest. The little things become the biggest blessings, look at his smile!