Airport run and shopping spree

It is always so exciting to pick our friends up at the airport in Port-au-Prince who have come to visit us. However, I have never gotten used to dropping them at the airport and saying, "Good-bye". Our group from High Hill Christian Church had an eye opening and heart warming experience in Haiti. We are grateful to the Lord for giving them a safe journey to and from Haiti. We also praise God that everyone stayed healthy. Grandma fell and really has a shiner today and is pretty stiff and sore but she says she'll live. She's a trooper and will be celebrating her 70th birthday on March 16th.



We got the group sent off and then headed for One Stop Market. We detoured to Valerio Canez. It's a store with everything from generators to refrigerators, stoves, beds and office supplies. We checked some prices and ended up buying a filing cabinet. Well okay, so we went to One Stop, changed money and went back and got a second one.



Jacqueline, the girl we raised that came to visit while you were here, said we were in the area where her son went to school and it was time for him to get out. We stopped to pick him up and found her husband already there waiting for him. They all hopped in. We finally reached her house and the area where Mariette lives. The one whose 2 year old nephew fell in a well and died. She will stay for the funeral and come back on Friday to help us receive the next group.



We went in for a few minutes to see her home and to meet our third "grandson". They are all very handsome. Lorenz is in Kind. He's the one we picked up from school. He talked non-stop on the thirty minute ride to his house but I, somehow, slept through most of it. Lorenz is 5. Bedensky is 3 going on 4 and very shy and reserved. It is easy to see why as there is no possible way he could get a word in at all. Asher is 4 months old and such a cuddly little guy. We praise God for the way God heals through time. We rejoice with this sweet one the Lord has returned to us and the way He multiplies our joy with 3 new grandsons and a son-in-law. There's always room for a few more at the Dorce' house. We anticipate Easter vacation as they will be coming to visit.



Our journey continued. We decided to stop at Cabaret and visit a preacher friend we hadn't seen or heard from in awhile. It was funny how I was about to say we should stop and see him when I saw Wilckly was already slowing down to turn in at his place. The Lord seemed to have laid this on both our hearts. We found his wife and a neighbor lady. They soon gave us the shocking news that he had been in prison since Dec. 31st. It seems after some false accusations of raping a girl he was put in prison. Blood tests were made and they were negative proving his innocence, but EVERYTHING TAKES LONGER THAN IT TAKES even if you are innocent and especially if you are in prison. We went immediately to visit him at the prison. Fifteen years is a long time to be in Haiti but I have never seen the inside of a prison here until yesterday. Just when I thought I had seen it all. He was thrilled to see us. He told us we renewed his hope of getting out. We ask you all to please lift him up in prayer. His name is William Burke. He is a faithful soldier of the cross. He was raised in an orphanage. He has created his own family as he has a wife and EIGHT children who are very worried about him. Please pray for God to show us a way to help him so that he may soon be released from prison and back with his family and congregation. This was enough for us to be totally exhausted as the group probable reached St. Louis before we got back to Carries. It was late.....ANOTHER DAY IN HAITI!