Everyone arrived in Port-au-Prince

Indy team photo

Colorado Team Photo

“The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love.” Psalm 145:8

Prices of airline tickets were outrageous this year. In order to have a decent priced fare, the team had to sacrifice sleep. Each team has multiple legs to get into Haiti, sleeping at airports instead of finding a nearby hotel. Both teams are safe in Port-au Prince. They are waiting at the smaller airport down the road for a chartered flight, 45 minutes flying low over Haiti and up to Port-au-Paix. An hour long tap-tap ride after that they should be on campus for time to set up tents, get settled in and rest a bit.

Supplies and Upgrades

When a mission team takes off they are bringing in more than anticipation!  We typically have each traveler loaded down with 100 pounds or more of supplies, therapy equipment and care packages for the missionaries and staff.

Collecting the supplies is always a blessings.  We are blessed by so many of you who come across wheelchairs, standers, walkers, AFO’s, clothes, diapers, formula etc… and bring them to our office.  The process of packing each bag to weigh exactly 50 pounds and disassembling equipment, taking to airport, weighting, checking, praying  the airlines will allow us to walk in some of the bulkier chairs and walkers is a very time consuming endeavor

Yesterday at the airport the Colorado team was extremely blessed.  Two of the bags were very over weight and one of the team members was given a complimentary upgrade to first class in order for those two bags to get in without extra charges.  Hey, -No-one is ever going to complain about a roomier seat and yummy food while in flight!  There was also a BIG DEAL made over one of the donated walkers , and some technical fixes were quickly made so that it was allowed on!