I leave early tomorrow morning (6:30 am) from the Greenville airport and will fly through Atlanta and Miami before arriving in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, at 4:15pm, Lord willing. Thankfully, I’m not flying north, so I should avoid any snow storms, though rain storms are forecasted for this area tomorrow. I will return on Dec. 14 at 8:12 pm in Greenville. We (Dr. Bernard, the director of BI, and I) will be checking Daniel’s (the Haitian translator) work on word taxonomies, passages that he worked on in response to our previous consulting, and new material (Psa. 3-10 and Gen. 1-5). I haven’t been able to finish my preparations for all the new material, so I’ll need to do some of that in the evenings. I’ll also have an opportunity to preach one or both Sundays. Here are my requests for this trip:
- For a safe and timely arrival of us and our luggage to Haiti (especially in light of the storms)
- For safety while in Haiti (since it is a very dangerous country, especially in the capital where we’ll be)
- For health and restful sleep (my back still wakes me up each night at around 3 am; the night sounds in Port-au-Prince also take some getting used to)
- For ability to speak and teach in French (it gets harder to use my French when I have to go in/out of it and am more out than in)
- For liberty and blessing as I preach on Sunday(s)
- For wisdom as we work through complex translation issues
- For grace to be an encouragement to Daniel, one another, our hosts, and others
- For opportunities to witness for Christ
I doubt I’ll be able to update this blog during the trip, but we’ll see what kind of access I can get. Thanks so much for your prayers!
Praying for you.