It's amazing how you can totally plan for something and then get the carpet pulled out from beneath you. That has been the story of my past month.
So COAT began...It was all set and full. Then 3 days before it begins a couple calls and cancels. 2 days before another lady calls and asks if it's a possiblity she can come. Then calls me 3 days later to say she'll be on a plane later that evening and is coming for the first 2 wks. (I decided to prepare like she was coming...so that worked out well). COAT is going really well I think...the last couple arrived last night and Renee decided to stay for the full ten weeks of the program. I'm excited that everyone will be together finally. I feel good about it...which worries me because normally that means I'm forgetting something huge! Maybe I'm just paranoid.
So, I leave for Haiti in less than 2 weeks. I'm really excited about my team! So, I thought I had all the money raised and was all comfortable and set to go...no no no that would be too easy. That is where the title 292.06 comes from...I know God will take care of it. I did however get two very missionary looking skirts for 6.36 at family thrift today. They will do well! We can only take 15 pounds with us and we're most likely only getting one shower...and there may not be electricty. I am so pumped about it! We're flying straight out of Port eu Prince to Pingoin (sp?) a very very very small town in the middle of Haiti. Very rural were we are doing some light construction at a school, a vbs, and pretty much whatever the missionary asks us to do. In some ways I think this will be the hardest place I've gone to...I think it's the poorest and politically the most troubled. I've heard there is a spirit of hopelessness there. I so excited to be leading the students that I've worked with for 2 years and to see their attitudes about the trip's conditions. When told about the weight limit, lack of showers, and food they were all like we're not going on vaction we're going to serve. So pray for our safety...especially on March 3rd and March 10th...those are the days we're in Port Eu Prince. Also, for my team to be united in the bond of love and that God will really speak into my teams life and they will see him in a new way. Also, that we'll be used by God.
So an India update. I'm still a team leader and going to India for 8wks (I have to keep reminding myself because It's so exciting). At this time I have 5 college students on my team. Chris, Adam, Dave, Sarah, and Andrea with the possibility of more being added. I've been getting more and more details from Mary (who's in charge of internships) and I'm so very excited the more I find out. I am waiting to start any planning until post Haiti. One country at a time.
