Hi from Haiti,

This morning I received a phone call from a visiting pastor friend who is helping a medical team and has been utilizing my boys to translate. He said he had a connection with an American Colonel and we could get all the food we needed. We had an hour to get there. This short notice made it impossible for me to contact some police friends who I use for security.

Off I went with 9 of my boys, in 3 trucks. We met pastor Murph, and soon were inside the giant warehouse. Sure enough, we backed all three trucks up and loaded 50 tarps and over 5000 meals into the truck. These are MRE's ready to eat meals.

We took 3 of the tarps and tried to hide the food for the trip home. Half way, several boxes fell from the back of my truck, the first one. We pulled over and quickly saw people starting to converge on the food. Just as we were about to be swarmed, 4 Angels walked up with sub machine guns, wearing police uniforms after exiting their police truck. They stood guard while we reloaded and left. Never knew angels needed guns.

Yesterday we got our bridge on the road to our house fixed and were not supposed to drive on it for 2 days. We had no choice but to roll the 3 trucks over it, and then home. We messed it up and I had to pay the guys a little more to "cover our tracks".

I was so proud of Claudy and Manel driving the other trucks, and the rest of the boys as we had a successful mission getting food.

Two of my staff, Fondi and Jony took a truck to pick up food from marines who brought it to us by helicopter. They then rolled in and boy do we have the food. We already took 30 cases of food to 3 pastors in our ministry area, including our former pastor, Pastor Jackie.

I am bummed I can't use the bridge tomorrow to deliver more food but Saturday we will hit it hard. My boys did deliver 30 meals tonight to the small, 28 child orphanage by our house that we have been helping.

We are going to move this food quickly to people who need it, mostly women with children and the kids at the Good Samaritan orphanage. Speaking of them, as of this week, they are now all sleeping in tents.

Did you pick up on it when I said, "We took all 3 trucks". A visitor this week said, "You need another truck? Let's go get one." And we did just that. A big people mover, which will help so much.

We also had a motorcycle club donate money for us to buy a motorcycle, which we did. This will come in so handy to make short runs and runs through the terrible bottleneck traffic. God has blessed us as we roll on.

I didn't really get the rest I had hoped for but do feel somewhat rested. Since I can't go anywhere tomorrow because of the cement on the bridge, I may get some rest tomorrow. Don't hold your breath.

I do understand there is a Superbowl on Sunday, and of course, I will be cheering for my home-state COLTS TO win it all. The Saint's ain't got a chance against the Colts.

Jony has youth group tomorrow (had 700 last week) and we have our first baptism at our property Sunday at 9am. Whew, so much going on including re-starting school this upcoming Monday. So much more to share but will stop. I love you guys, thanks for your support.

Tominhaiti

ps- Oops, forgot to tell you we are re-building our first house this week. My staff member Jony lost his house, so for $475 dollars it is being rebuilt. I will send pictures.