Flooding and more….

Well I am sure many of you are worried as you have heard so much about the hurricane hitting Haiti, however our home is safe and well. I know that some places in port have been affected and damaged, but overall the masses that have been hurt are in outskirts of the city. Places like Gonaives...there our missionary friends’ car literally was swept out to sea and they are living on the roof of the orphanage. As of yesterday, the road to get there was impassable. The UN couldn’t even get through, but Pastor Emory said that he was shoveling mud out of their home and water seemed to be receding, which is good news.

I received a called from Dorothy and Mama Kathy(Kevs adoptive mom)yesterday it was so great to talk to the both of them! Dorothy is doing well. the surgery went fine and she good. i could tell she really misses being here, which i can understand. I was only home for a week and i missed the kids, i cant imagine being gone for this long and having been with most of them for 3 years. continue to keep her in your prayers as she is still recovering.

One of the main reasons they called was to inform me that I may be housing and taking care of babies from Gonaives as soon as they can get them into port. With all the water there will be many diseases, probably typhoid and lack of clean water...we need to get them in a safe place. it might be a lot so it looks like as soon as they can Kathy's husband Beaver, a family friend Casey and her sister will be traveling here to help.

This is when the good news comes in... The Brooks family has found someone to buy and get the parts for the car. Beaver wants to come maybe on Monday with the parts, take them up to Cullie, get the car fixed and then drive it to Gonaives. He will help pastor Emory and when they can get babies to me they will. Casey and her sister, who is a nurse, will stay with me and help take care of them. Then on top of them being here we will get Kez our new roommate soon and she is also a nurse. Technically, she will be here to work with sherry and Dr. Ed, but she will be living with us. I am excited for all these nurses!

Praise God that we may then have a car back in a couple weeks! Praise God that I will have more help coming and help will be coming for the people in Gonaives! Sarah Beth leaves today, we are all sad inffact; Kevs prayed last night that the weather would be bad so she could stay for a month…it was cute! Praise God that she was able to come, but God is good and knows that she needs to get back to her work and life in KCMO. Well I need to get going, but thought you all needed and update on the things going on.

LOVE LOVE LOVE
Blessings,
Natasha