Travel to Haiti

By Pastor R

Here are some of my thoughts on Haiti and specifically how God prepared the team and I for our trip. It was (and still is) an incredible journey of seeing God move and work. I hope that you'll come back throughout the next few weeks to read my blogs on Haiti as we will continue to post them every few days. You'll also be hearing from some of the members of the team and what God did in and through them as well.

John 2:5 “His mother said to the servants: Do whatever he tells you to do”

So on Monday, April 2, our team of 14 members & myself tried to make the journey down from Washington Dulles Airport to Port au Prince, Haiti.  The airplane we were supposed to fly didn’t make it.  But the airline said they had a replacement.  The problem with the replacement was that it was fueled to fly to California.  It had too much fuel to fly to Miami and therefore; the airline would have to take fuel out of our airplane.  The only problem was all of the fuel tankers were full!  So we had to wait for one of those tankers to remove the extra fuel on our plane so that we could finally depart!

When it was all said and done our plane was delayed an extra couple of hours.  That would have been okay except once we got to Miami, we had to catch our connection flight to Port au Prince right away.  When we arrived a couple of hours later, our connector flight had already left.  So we wound up spending the night in Miami!

While some may find such a moment upsetting, I found it quite encouraging that we were encountering opposition from the earliest part of the journey.  Our enemy is relentless in his quest to discourage God’s children from doing God’s work.  The reality, however, was that we had one less day in Haiti!

When we finally arrived in Haiti we met our Food for the Hungry Program Director, Odines and translator, Wilson.  I began to tell them what God had put in my heart to do for Haiti and it was amazing to see God at work through them as our hearts became more and more unified.