Hi,

We have not had power or internet service for the past day or so and I apologize for the lack of communication. Our generator has been fixed. We found the owner of company, who lost his company but still sent the tech man to put in a new gas pump. Praise God. Internet service is back. For now.

So, so busy. I have been going 18-20 hour days for 10 or 11 days now. It caught up with me yesterday afternoon. I went and crawled in bed, and was there until 5am today. A nice rest. I am ready to roll.

I have too much to tell you in one email but will start two per day, if we have service. We have divided our relief into 11 geographic areas, with 3 teams of 9 people each giving out relief. We finally got into Merjay yesterday. They did not lose too many houses but, with the food shortage, they are all hungry. We helped 30 families, more to come.

Every day since the quake hit, we have driven a 5-mile stretch between the edge of our town, Bon Repos, and Merjay. We take food and water to nearly 100 men and women who are all rummaging the debris from town that has been discarded. What a joy and thrill to pull up and see my boys sprinting 100 yards to provide help to someone out in the field. The men now come to us when they see us and devour whatever we give them so quickly. My boys are loving it and so is their very proud dad. God has blessed me with 20 young men in my care who are becoming full time ministry partners, as well as sons.

We are helping about 50 families per day. We have not received one drop of food or supplies from outside Haiti yet. Dozens of people are trying to get to us but there are 1400 planes waiting, just to come to Haiti. Plus, once they get here, you can't get to the airport.

The good news is, and you can pray for this, between 10am and 11am, we expect a helicopter from Air Calvary and one from the coast guard to bring supplies to our mission. We are getting ready to leave to go to the site to secure it and await these desperately needed supplies.

Speaking of 10am, my younger brother is having prostate surgery at this time in Indiana and please pray for him. Mark is his name.

I am probably sharing about 2% of what is happening, so know that much more is going on. I am just realizing how my family is suffering. They have lost their country, their classmates, no school, and no idea of the future, I am working with this.

The good news is the 10 little ones have no clue and we will keep it that way, for now. Another huge quake the other day, then last night one that scared me and we ran for the door, as it "shook the house pretty good". We think we have an engineer coming today to inspect our 3 houses on our compound to see if they are safe to live in.
Fuel is back, we are loaded for a couple months as we speak. I can never repay my board for what they are doing. They have dropped their lives for 10 days and focused 100 percent on our well being: mine, my families and that of the people we work with. My board member Linda Neal, who is here, has saved me. What a great help; she was sent by God.

Keep praying, keep raising money, we need it all and yes, 100% is still coming this way.

Love you guys,

tominhaiti