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So, how are these related? Well, they describe the last half of my day.
Yesterday I turned on my phone to find messages from my Mom, Tom Benz & his wife Larissa. Several years ago Mom & Tom had worked together at Global Action. Tom now runs Bridges of Faith, an organization that works with international orphans and getting them adopted. Most of their work is in the Ukraine, but they felt a burden to help the new orphans of the Haitian earthquake.
Tom had mentioned in his newsletter that he was coming to PaP. Mom contacted him to let him know that I was here. A very long story short, I spent the later half of the afternoon with Tom & his team: Jerry, Andy & Polo. What great conversatios we had, discussing our experiences and plans for coming back for more work in the future.
They had spent last night in tents at a flattered orphanage. They brought us "home" & we in turn offered them a place to sleep, cold shower & hot meal for the night. They will be closer to the airport for their flight home tomorrow. God continues to amaze us in His provision. We had no transportation & they had nowhere to sleep for the night. Our cooks were awesome in extending dinner for extra mouths as well.
While at the hotel today several reporters from different organizations overheard our conversations and asked if they could document our clinic work in the outlying clinics. It will need to be cleared with Kristy tomorrow, but then NPR may end up following us one day this week. Keep your ears open.
Ok, so what is a shower in a bottle? Well, it's what happens when you are too sticky to go to bed but there isn't enough water pressure for the shower. Fabiola & I took turns filling my 20 oz water bottle from the tap and showering with that. One to wet down with & two to rinse. Cold water never felt so good!
The new team arrives tomorrow morning. The should be loading on the bus in La Romana now, leaving by 23h00 to be at the Haitian border at opening time. The new week begins in the morning.