Friday

It is now a hot and muggy Friday evening in Port-au-Prince. I just checked in on line with Delta and our flight tomorrow leaves P-a-P at 2:25 PM. Our Haitian driver will be here at 10:30 AM to take us to the airport. We have packed some of our bags and we are traveling a lot lighter since a lot of the weight we had coming in here was equipment that we have since installed onto the walls at Cote Plage (Radio Lumiere) or at Boutillier. The traffice today was again horrendous and we made an attempt at visiting the King's Hospital to do a site survey, but traffic congestion did not allow it. We may have enough information to do the estimate already, so we will continue to discuss it. We made it back to the radio station about 40 minutes later than we were expected. Once we arrived there the entire radio station staff treated us to a special Haitian lunch, complete with cake. The Director thanked us for our efforts for the ministry and we also thanked them for their hospitality and friendship. I think I speak for all of us in saying that this is a fine organization that has people who love the Lord and have a heart to share the Gospel with the Haitian people. We will always have fond memories of these folks here and are hopeful that any time we are able to return to Haiti for any project we might be able to check in and visit these folks again. Anyway, we are assured that we will see these people when we meet our Father in Heaven. Any further projects with Radio Lumiere will have to be at one of their transmitter sites around the country, as long as we did our work successfully at Cote Plage and Boutillier. This may be the final blog post from Haiti. Thank you for following us along as we have worked on Phase II of the project. Paul Shingledecker leaves for his home tomorrow also, and it has been a real blessing to spend these past two weeks with him. Remember the Haitian people. Many of them do not have much in the way of material things and t seems hard to have to survive in this sea of people with any dignity or sense of self esteem. But these people are as friendly as they come and we will miss them. See you Stateside tomorrow or Sunday, Lord willing. Gary for the Team