Prayer and fasting have been a way of life for us since we came to Haiti thirty-four years ago.  On the first of 2009, Yvonne and I received an estimate for $55,000.00 to complete the plumbing and electrical on the mission home. We did not have that kind of money but we made our requests known to Jehovah Jireh. As you may know this construction has gone on since 1994; it is a pay as we go project.

A few months later old friends from Mt. Zion Church, Utica, NY expressed their desire to help us.  Today they are filling a Sea Land container with baby food and diapers for two children's homes and our electrical and plumbing supplies.  Our cost for the building supplies is $19,000.00.  Less than half of the local price but still a faith challenging amount; please prayerfully consider what you can give to this. And pray with us for volunteer skilled labor to help us finish this house.

In 2005 the United Nations branded Haiti the most dangerous place in the world with more kidnappings than Columbia.  Cocaine dealers landed planes and boats with impunity. Car jackings and home invasions became common place.  We put our faces to the floor everyday in prayer for the protection of our children and grandchildren. By December God sent an extraordinary woman, Anne Marie Casella, as US Embassy Chief of American Citizen Services.  Remarkably Anne Marie had never dealt with a kidnapping, over the next three years she handled an unprecedented 130 US citizen kidnappings in Haiti.