Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Cholera in Haiti

We are asking for special prayer for Haiti today. The cholera outbreak is getting significantly worse and increasingly closer to the villages we minister to. At this point, there is no case in Titanyen, but unless the Lord intervenes, it will be there shortly. We are praying for special protection for our employees and their families, our school kids and teachers, and all our ministry partners at the church and many friends we have in the village. We are in very little danger on the compound as we have clean, treated water and sanitary conditions for all who are here (more and more medical people are arriving to work with both Samaritan's Purse and North Carolina Baptist Relief on their medical teams in the cholera tents.) Susan Bruns, our fellow nurse, has worked 3 shifts so far at a clinic about 40 min. north of us and Sheryl has been at the schools and in the village doing cholera teaching and providing water-treatment products to our employees and schools. We would love to be able to give aqua-tabs to everyone in Titanyen, but the supplies have been slow in arriving. SP was able to get a plane with IV fluids and the tabs here by Friday, but it had to go into customs and we had been praying for a quick release. They were able to get the supplies late yesterday afternoon as IV supplies were getting dangerously low, so that was a big answer to prayer.


We are assisting the small clinic down the road with IVs, supplies, and medical help as they treat cholera patients coming from about 10 min. down the road. Yesterday, a 15- year old girl from Minotree, a small village just 5 min. away, died at the clinic even after receiving IV fluids. The disease comes on so rapidly and if they are severely infected, they can die within hours. People are becoming very fearful and we are praying for God's peace and presence to be felt in a great way over our zone at this time. We will not be treating any cholera patients at our clinic-if they come, we will triage them and send them down to the end of our road where they have tents set up to receive them. We need to continue with our burn care and do not have room for overnight patients or isolating patients. Burn patients have low immunity and would be very suseptable to cholera because of their compromised immune system.


The cholera outbreak is starting to cause violent demonstrations and with Presendtial elections less than two weeks away, there is concern that violence will increase. Please pray for peace and calm and for wisdom and endurance and perseverance to deal with this crisis. We do know without a doubt that God is in control and He will be glorified even in this!


Thank you so much for standing with us in prayer.


Chris and Sheryl

Glen is still in HAiti and will be returning to Colorado on Friday night.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

November

Time is flying. Glen is in Haiti for two weeks with a team and then will stay a extra week to help and look for a car and a atv for us.

Last week we went to Nashville with our things for living in Haiti to be put on a oceangoing container. Our possessions will arrive in Haiti in 2 months. Hopefully the house that we will be living in will be ready by then. Glen will go down in January and I will follow after the our grandson Sawyer is born and the taxes are done.

Please Pray for me as I have been ill since Oct 26 and now have medication and am finally beginning to think that I will recover. Please pray for the strength to finish cleaning out the house and to find someone who will rent and take good care of our house for us.
God has been using this week that he has slowed me down to talk to me. He has so many good things to tell us when we have time to listen.

Glen is in Haiti

Glen is in Haiti until November 19. He will be looking for us a car and to see if he can find a ATV so that he can get around when we are there. He will also help with the team that is there and help with what other things need done.

Last week we took our things to Nashville to be shipped to Haiti. We will see how expensive that is soon. Could be up to a $1.00 apound. Our things will arrive sometime in January. Glen will go down and I will follow after our Grandbaby and the taxes

Friday, October 22, 2010

MOVING

WE'VE HAD VERY GREAT WEEK, WE WERE ASKED TO SPEAK IN LINDA'S BROTHERS CHURCH, BOTH SERVICES. WHAT A GREAT TIME TO BE ABLE TO SHARE WHATS GOD HAS PLANNED FOR LINDA AN I. WE'VE BEEN SO BLESSED IN THE PROCESS PREPARING TO LEAVE.
WELL WE ARE IN THE NEXT PHASE OF OUR JOURNEY TO HAITI. WE RECIEVED NEWS THAT WE NEEDED TO HAVE OUR PERSONAL HOUSEHOLD GOODS IN NASHVILLE, TN. BY THE END OF THE MONTH. WELCOME TO BEING FLEXABLE. WE RENTED A UHAUL AND ARE LOADING IT NEXT TUESDAY AND HEADING FOR NASHVILLE. IT TAKES ABOUT 2 MONTHS TO SHIP AND GO THROUGH CUSTOMS. IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS THERE ARE A FEW UNEXPECTED OH BY THE WAY!!!!
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE PEOPLE IN HAITI AS A MANY HAVE DIED FROM AN OUTBREAK OF CHOLERA.
PLEASE ALSO PRAY FOR THE TEAM FROM BETHAL BAPTIST, GREELEY, CO THAT IS LEAVING IN NOV. TO GO TO HAITI. I AM GOING WITH THIS TEAM AND SPENDING AN EXTRA WEEK TO LINE UP SOME DETAILS THAT WE NEED BEFORE WE ARRIVE IN 2011.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Moving forward

We have been moving forward to being in Haiti by sometime after the first of the year. There are many things to do but we had plans laid out that would have put Glen in Haiti in November to look for a car and 4 wheeler for us. Also he would have participated with the mission trip from Bethel.
He returned from Wisconsin on Friday with a infected knee. We saw a Dr on Sat and he started on Antibotics. He took me to Kimball to see my family and to the airport to fly out to North Carolina for Equip Missionary Intensive training. Monday he saw our family Dr who immediately sent him to the orthopedic surgeon and he was in Surgery a few hour later. He has a PICC line for IV access now and will be recieving IV antibotics for the next 4-6 weeks. So we will see what our time line is now and how we need to readjust plans. Please continue to pray for us. Thanks Linda

Thursday, July 29, 2010

In Colorado

We are currently in Colorado. We have been busy since we returned. Glen is currently rebuilding the well house so that we can get our home ready for renters, I have been working, trying to catch up on mail, and took a trip with my mom and sisters to Branson. We are currently working on information that Global requires. We will be getting a letter out to you in the next weeks. We are getting ready for a garage sale. When you have lived in a house for 20 plus years there is lots of things that need garage saled.

Sheryl and Chris Brumley will be in Greeley after August 5. We are looking forward to catching up on what is happening in Haiti. We had a long talk with Julie Welch who was on a mission trip down to Haiti in May. Haiti captures your hearts.


Please pray with us as we work out the details to return to Haiti soon.

Friday, June 11, 2010

Missionary Orientation Training

We along with 6 other couples finished MOT today. It has been a full week of classes about the mission group that we are going with and what to expect on the missionary field. It was a stetching week for us.
To start with when you see a name tag in front of you that says Glen Erickson Missionary to Haiti Linda Erickson Missionary to Haiti. It suddenly seems real. We are ready to return to Haiti but on the practical side we do have several housekeeping duties to finish like who will live in our house, Who will support us, What are we going to keep and what are we going to sell. When will we be leaving again, and a few other things.
We are staying in Tuppelo Mississippi tonight "(Elvis Birth Place) We saw today where he bought his first guitar) We will be flying to Fort Lauderdale and will be there until Tuesday. Then home to Children and Grandchildren. We have alot to talk over before we get home.
We spent the week with the home office staff. They treated us to a wonderful week. We were able to talk with each of them. They presented what they would be doing for us in the office and talked with us about their time on the mission field.
Then they feed us well and had wonderful desserts for us to enjoy, So much for the weight that we had lost in Haiti.

Friday, June 4, 2010

new homes in Titityan

We went with Kevin and Susan to the childrens program. It was really fun. We had a great time watching the children sing and do actions to their songs. Glen had a great time holding a little girl that has climbed in his lap every time that we have seen her.
On the way back from the childrens program we stopped to see the new houses that are being built with the earth quake fund. It was really special. We went thru one home that is not finished and then the owner of the next house invited us in to see it. It is a 2 room house with a outhouse. They were so happy. They asked us to stop and pray with them. We sang and then they prayed Thanks to God for their new house. What a special time.
We have such mixed feelings about returning home. We know that we need to but we feel that we could continue to help, I guess that our decision is made by the fact that we will be in missionary training next week but it would be so easy to stay., The three months have just flown.

Florida

We just have arrived in Florida. What a difference than Haiti. When We look at the huge buildings that are not falling down and no trash in the streets, being able to go into a restaurant and order different food. It feels very strange. We will be here in Fort Lauderdale until Sunday when we fly to Tuppelo Miss for a week of classes. We will arrive home on June 15.

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Sunday Night

We had just started Bible study when we had a phone call asking us to come and help with the wounded from a truck accident. The brakes had failed coming down the mountains and we had 28 wounded patients. We jumped in the car, gathered a Dr and two more nurses and drove 5 minutes to Mission of hope. We both had memories going over. I had memories of the little boy that we took over who died. Sheryl had memories when we arrived of the earthquake. It was a big porch area full of stretchers and bloody people. I started on a girl that was in shock. Then was called to ride in the Ambulance. I jumped in the back and had 2 patients. We did alot of praying on the ride to PAP. I helped with things to settle the patients at the Miami field hospital and realized that the ambulance had left me. So I waited for the next one. This time I ran the lights, sirens, and the horn as we traved in the dark in the Haiti traffic. SCary. Back to MOH and I started to help again when they needed another nurse to go with Ambulance so Back again. This all with my stomach protesting from being car sick.
We met another ambulance and traded people and I headed back to MOH.
We were able to go home. Glen met me at the door with a coke and a listening ear,
Praise the Lord all the Americans were flown to the states the next day, Praise the Lord that they are not all dead from going over the mountain. Praise the Lord for helping me thru the situation.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

We traveled to church in PAP by ourselves

We just came back from traveling to the English speaking church in PAP. That may not sound like much in the world of GPS but it is a big deal in a town that has not very many steet signs. It also is a town of alot of debri and alot of buildings that are down so we felt good about our trip. We even went to the grocery store and to lunch before coming home.
The pastor encouraged us to get on our knees and to pray for Haiti. He also reminded us that Jesus spent 40 days after the resurrection with his disciples. He reminded us that we need to spend time with God.

Friday, May 14, 2010

One Month left.

Tomorrow is 1 month from the day that we get off the airplane in Colorado. That really gives me mixed emotions. So many things will happen here before we leave and then the missionary training in the states. Loving what I do here each day and loving the children and wanting to be able to talk to the Haitian people. Packing things to leave here and packing things to take home. Grandchildren who we will get to see that we know have grown as we saw them on Skype last week for my birthday. Baileys birthday and she will be 5 the week that we come home.
What a mixed group of feelings.

Time has flown so fast. Glen has spent his days helping with the materials needed to help people rebuild their houses. He hauled 1450 block today and some of them he handled more than once. He is already in bed tonight. He has hauled alot of sand this week and also cement, rebar, doors and other supplies that are needed. Chris and he spent one day trying to get the papers for the dump truck.
He has decided what Haitian traffic is like. He say that it is like being in a big race where all classes of cars are racing at the same time and then you look at the other side of the road and the same thing is happening. All different kinds of cars,trucks, and buses racing down the road as fast as they can go.
Today there was one lane of traffic in Titiyan and a dump truck went thru at full speed thru the market. All they do is honk their horn and expect you to get out of the way.
It has been two weeks since the accident where the little boy died. Glen is missing the children of the village as there is a different attitude in the children. That makes Glen sad and if you are praying for us. Please pray for Glen and the children. He loves being with them and it is hard now.
Tonight I went to a orphanage in Titiyan. It had fallen down in the earthquake. The 30 children there have been sleeping in tents in the yards. They are working hard to get a building finished. A girl from Gill named Abby arrived yesterday and she is here to help.
Yesterday I spent the day working to clean wedding dresses. Gobal here in Haiti has wedding dresses. Beautiful ones that they loan out so that people have a wedding dress. The dresses that we delivered will be driven as far as they can on a car and then will have a 2 hour ride on a horse up the mountain to where there will be 3 weddings on Saturday.
This week I only worked in the Burn Clinic. Other weeks I have gone with a group from North Carolina to different towns, tent cities and up in the mountains to have clinics.
We have a 10 month old that we are treating who reached into a pot of boiling cereal and has third degree burns on arm and fingers. This is about the 5 or 6 one of these burns that we have seen since I have been here. We have seen many people burnt from riding on the back of a Moto. They will have up to 5 people and their supplies on these Motorcycles and legs get burnt. We have treated people after car accidents. This week a man that we had gone out in the rain to get after a car accident came back to see us and asked to pray for us. He prayed in French and quoted the 23rd Psalm. It was a beautiful prayer of thanksgiving.


Friday, April 16, 2010

Sunday and the rest of the week

Sunday we went to church in TiTiyan. This is the village next to the compound. The pastor asked the ones that were newly baptised to stand. 77 people stood and they had just been baptiesed. We were privieged to take communion with them

Tuesday and Thursday I went with North Carolina Baptist to clinics. We saw 160 on Tuesday and must have seen more then that on Thursday as we went to a tent city that they are calling Obama. The people just moved on the a mans private land and sat up their tents. We rode to the clinic in a TAPTAP. It is a small pickup brghtly painted that you ride in the back and when you want off you tap on the the side of top of the pickup shell. 26 people accepted Christ as Savior on Thursday. They shared using a Evangel Cube. It was a neat way to share the gospel.

This week we have not had any new burns just the two year olds and Moto burns from last week. They are healing fast.

We have had a team here from Kentucky here this week. They have worked on rebuilding the damage to a large church, Making and painting church benches, sealing a roof and other projects that need done. We have had the men who work on the compound fixing all the cracks from the earthquake damage. So now alot of the buildings will need repainted.

We each take a night and tell our testimony and what we are doing at Global. It has been neat to hear the stories of our fellow workers and how they made it to the mission field.

Wednesday night we were just finishing supper when it started raining. We had a inch and 6 tenths in 30 minutes. Just as the rain was going good we had a employee tell us that her brother in law had been in a truck accident and was at the gate as they could not get anyone to treat him. We were soaked by the time we made it to the car. We had to drive the car to the end of the property. We thought that we would get stuck. People were carrying him to meet us. They slipped and fell just before they made it to the car. We loaded him in the car and started to the clinic. We did not know how badly injured he was. He just had a badly cut forehead and had wounds to arm and a dislocated shoulder. We treated him and then you have to find a way to get him home as the village does not have lights and is not very safe to be driving in. So you can tell that life changes fast here.

Glen has fixed so many things this week. We have had all kinds of things go down. He is waiting on parts. Please pray that the parts will arrive before we leave so that he can finish fixing what he has apart.

Tomorrow the team leaves and so does our director David Heady. Glen is headed to the airport in town. We are going to the English church in town on Sunday. We will eat out and shop for groceries as you do not usually go into Port a Prince.

I guess the other thing that happened is that we moved into
Kevin and Susan Bruns house to take care of their dogs as they are in the States for 6 weeks. We have a beautiful view of the ocean and mountains. We are watching Basset Hound and a Rotwieler. We will be here until May 23.
Kevins Family is from Torrington Wyoming.

Just to let you know that we miss all of you. We really appreciate the emails and phone calls when we can catch you. You can call us on Skype at glenandlinda@hotmail.com if you have Skype. Please continue to pray for us and we are praying for you.

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Easter

Easter is very important in Haiti. It is important to the Voodoo and the Christians. The Christians have services the entire week before Easter and churches are packed on Easter day. This week Glen went with the group from Global to show the Passion Film in the mountains with a portable screen and generator. They had a 2 hour trip in the back of a pickup there and back again. Then Thursday night was a service that started at 330 and finished at 930 at the church here in town. Then we headed off at 7Am to go to church in
Port a Prince, This service the Preacher was our director David Heady. There were 2 choirs and the service was on radio and Internet, The choir that was dressed in white graduation gowns complete with the hats was wonderful. They sang the Hallelujahs Chorus in Creole. IT was beautiful. The church was a big church Downtown and it had damage from the earth quake. That same night David went back and showed the
Passion film and around 115 people accepted the Lord. Last night we showed the Jesus film. The church was packed out and everyone watched very intently. Two people accepted Christ. One Lady watched the film and moved closer when the invitation was given but did not accept Jesus. At least we know that she heard about Jesus.
Saturday I went into a Lady house in TITanyan. It was a two room small house. She has 4 children, absent husband who beats her, and she is a faithful worker in the church. She had Easter dress hanging for the whole children's choir. She was making about 30 dresses and shirts for the Choir. She makes all of these on a treadmill Singer machine. They were a Blue Taffeta with trim. Gorgeous dresses, They sang at church this morning. They were one of the four choir groups that we had this morning. All of the groups and all of the people in were dressed in very wonderful church clothing. Alot of them came out of tents or cardboard and plastic tents.
Then today we had lunch with Samaritans Purse Ham, Mashed Potatoes, green beans, fruit and peach cobbler. Tonight we had a Service here on the compound with all of the people here. We were outside in the chapel. We were surrounded by the tarps that they will be giving away. We had a beautiful sunset and looked out on the water as the Chaplain talked about Jesus being on the water. We had Communion together.
I have found that I really miss hearing the service in English. We have now heard 2 English services this week. I am beginning to be able to know what they say at times but not enough to get the meaning of the message.
Just wanted to let you know That We have had a Blessed Easter. Even in Haiti God is alive.

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Saturday


WE woke to a hot day but there is a breeze and that really helps. We have already finished burn clinic as we try to only do the ones that need to be seen and can not wait until Monday. We had 2 new children with burns today. One 2 year old that was reaching up and it spilled under her arm and down her side, One 2 year old that had boiling water on her foot from the family meal of boiling beans and rice. They are so good. They just sit there and let us treat them. They are happy for the Pic Willy which is a sucker that we give after we treat them.
Glen left for PAP (town) with Kevin another missionary here. They were going to check out ECODepot and NAPA and pick up the Mail from AGAPa. That is the flight service that brings in mail and letters so that it goes for US postage. All package have to have custom duty paid on them. Glen is trying to get a idea of where to get parts as he is trying to keep things working. Very different than the States, If this picture comes thru it is of the piles of rubble that are every where from the destroyed houses.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Anger

Today as I listened to the army unloading water and a constant backup alarm from their big machine, The helicopter took off right out side my window and I had to realise that those are sounds that I am getting very used to. The sounds that I heard today that I did not like were the sounds of boys who need something to do besides stand on the road outside our clinic and call out bad words at us. Also the women who gathered at the gate today demanding water. The well is just down the road and all the water that anyone needs is there but they wanted the water bottles that the army is delivering as the army gets ready to leave the country. They are leaving us enough bottled water to fill 3 small swimming pools.
last night as Friendship
(another Christian group here with from 25 to 16 year old
_went out to get their things off the ship. They had 2 different groups of men jump on their truck and try to take pallet off the truck. They did manage to get one pallet and part of another one. They thought that they got rice and they steal frying pans.
I did have a wonderful talk with a missionary to day who has a flannel graph ministry here in the country that the Haitians are running and are spreading the gospel stories all over the country. It was neat to see and hear about how
God works.
Today we treated one burn and many wounds. We sorted medicine and clothing. We shared some of our abundance with the Haitian academy across the road. They came to help when the earthquake happened.
We are meeting many wonderful people that God is using,
Glen went to Port a Prince today. He is starting to teach a man how to be a mechanic, We took several rides on the 4 wheeler.
I need to quit as I am being ate alive by the misquitos. Good Night

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Earthquake

Just a note to update on our week in Haiti. So much has happened and we do not get to email like we would like to.
This week I worked 3 days in the burn clinic and then spent 2 days going out with North Carolina Baptist to a tent city and also to a city Solua. This was a place that for three years no one from Global had been as it was a center of gang members. We worked in a Church where the front of the church was standing and the sanctuary of the church was totally destroyed. We saw and treated about 100 people using interpreters. The people were very nice. The next day we went to the tent city. We took a guard with us. He had a gun and worked crowd control for us. It had rained that night and we were under a tarp. We were dry. 4 men accepted the Lord that morning and they went to their knees in the dirt and prayed. What a experience. We saw and treated about 100 people that morning.
Yesterday we went to where the earthquake happened. We saw so many buildings down and you know that there are still people in the rubble. One building is standing and one is down. from the earthquake to the town of Port A Prince you just see damage and so many buildings that you still know are going to fall down and people have opened there business underneath the buildings that look like they will fall at any time.

Monday, March 15, 2010

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Saturday, March 13, 2010

one week in Haiti

We are over one week in Haiti now. It seems like it went so fast.
We have had hot dry windy weather. No rain although it is supposed to be the rainy season. The wind has blown so bad at night we have thought that we are in Wyoming.
We helped to unload a 40 foot container that came from the states. It had a mixture of many supplies on it. We will now need to sort all those supplies.
It was fun to see the different things that were sent. Many needed supplies and things that we can share with other ministries that are down here.
Glen become dehydrated while unloading the container and needed to rest. He is still not feeling as good as he should. So pray that he will be back to feeling good soon.

We are staying in a 2 room apartment with a kitchen below.
One night this week 17 people arrived that we thought had already ate but they had not ate and so we fixed a spaghetti casserole and fed them quick. Just another pleasant surprise, They are going up to the north part of the island.
We have a team coming in to stay on April 20.
Sheryl and Chris and Josh will be back tomorrow so we are looking forward to see them. The Brums family will leave for 6 weeks the first part of April. The other groups here Samaritan Purse,Friendship and North Carolina Baptist are a constantly changing group. We eat lunch with Samaritan Purse group each day for our daily meal of beans and rice.

Glen goes down for Bible study each day with the Haitian men at 7:30 and I head for the clinic each morning at 07:30. We have been treating each morning from 2-3 hours and then we head out to help with moving supplies or the many other jobs that need done, Glen has been working on a well drilling machine,a generator, and numerous other vehicles

Friday, March 5, 2010

Haiti arrrival

We arrived safely in Haiti. We were met at the airport by David Heady. We were able to see Chris and Sheryl for a few minutes before they left. Then we took a trip to see some of the effects of the earthquake. So many buildings down. So many tents and every type of material that people are living in (plastic, cardboard and other things put up for walls. People selling things on top of the rubble.
We saw what the earthquake did to the roads. We saw the site of a mass grave. Then to the compound to see the many new things that were not here the last time that we were here. A big yellow and white tent operated by Friendship. The conference center has a large group of Samaratian purse. The mountains are brown following afire. The grass is dry as the rains have not come.
We ate beans and rice and peanut butter. We reconected with the people that we knew from last time and met some new people. We are living in a apartment on the top of the visitors quarters.
Then it was time for a nap. Glen was awakened so that he could learn to fill the propane tanks. Then we had supper with a team that were here. Fried Chicken. G
reat.
Then we walked to the Bruns to have our questions answered and we have alot of those today.
Then back to bed.
Today I worked in the burn clinic and sorted the supplies that we brought. Glen cleaned the generator room and now is working on a clutch that he has never seen beore.
It is overcast and cool here today.
I am going down to meet the people from
North Carolina Baptist who I will be helping at their clinic on Saturday.
Pray that we will get over being tired.

Monday, March 1, 2010

Leaving

We leave on Wed March 3. We will arrive in Haiti on Thursday AM and Sheryl and Chris Fly out at 4pm. We still have some of our taxes that are not complete. Please pray that we can finish them before we leave. Tomorrow is the final day for packing.

This is the building that we think that we will be staying in at the Global Campus in Haiti.

Monday, February 22, 2010

March 3rd is the Day!

RaVae here...still convincing/teaching Glen and Linda how to do this. They are leaving March 3rd. That is one week and two days! Yikes!
They have so much to do before they leave. They are still gathering items to be packed and taken with them. There are several groups collecting items to go to Haiti. If you are interested there is a box at Bethel Baptist Church in Greeley. Please do NOT donate food or clothes. Haiti has been inundated with food and clothes. They are still in need of tents. If you can donate a LIGHTWEIGHT tent for Glen and Linda to take it would be much appreciated. They will also take LIGHTWEIGHT tarps if a lightweight tent is out of the question.
Yes, they have found someone for their house! He is a friend of a friend's cousin...or something like that! :) Anyway, he is a great guy who has been living in a camper-trailer in LaSalle for quite some time. I have yet to meet him, but both Glen and Linda speak highly of him and enjoy him greatly.
They got a flight directly to Port Au Prince from Fort Lauderdale, FL. So when they arrive in Haiti it won't take nearly as long to get to the compound.

Prayer requests:
1) Please pray that Glen and Linda will be able to get their taxes done before they leave. The accountant called a few days ago asking for more paperwork. Linda is planning on taking it to them on Friday.
2) Please pray God will bless their TIME. They have so much to do before they leave and they need to leave well-rested so they can jump right in when they get there. They need to sort through all of the donations and pack them as well as finish packing their personal items.
3) Please pray that God will go before them and prepare their way ahead of them. This includes safe travels and a place to lay their heads when they arrive!
4) Please pray for those gathered around them during the next week and two days. That we will be encouraging and help make this transition easier for them rather than harder.


Many Blessings!