… at least for me.  So I thought I’d take advantage of a few moments at Starbucks (Comcast still hasn’t gotten around to hooking up our internet at Trudy’s) to post a few pics from the last two weeks or so.  It’s been so crazy, though, that I really hadn’t taken too many pictures! Eventually, I will get around to posting more pics from our trip to Haiti in July …

Quick re-cap:  Melissa and I and the kids are hoping to be heading to Haiti in about a year.  We have applied to and interviewed with One Mission Society, an agency which maintains a multi-faceted ministry in Cap Haitien.  We should have an official acceptance within a week or two and then we’ll be going through their orientation before beginning to raise support.  In an effort to pay down our debt, we have decided to rent out our house.  Melissa’s mother, Trudy, has graciously agreed to house us for the next year so that the money that used to go to…

Tuesday, July 26.  Melissa and I went to Greenwood today to interview with One Mission Society as we move forward with plans to enter the mission field fulltime in about a year.  A panel of four met with Melissa for an hour and then separately with me for an hour.  Now they confer and run their recommendations past the president.  We won’t get official word for a week or two, but we felt it went well. Assuming they accept us, the next step is an orientation (which might take a bit of work to get into our schedules once school…

So the last time I wrote, I mentioned how I had woken up early this past Friday morning and couldn’t fall back to sleep because I had all these questions about how things were going to work out.  We were getting ready to have a moving sale and hoping to vacate our house and yet we had no lease written up … much less a family lined up to rent our place!  I wasn’t even sure how to go about finding a renter … or how long it might take. In my last post, I also mentioned our next door…

I’m sure our neighbors, Jessica and Rob, would appreciate your prayers.  They were tent camping with their three daughters last weekend.  Everyone was having trouble sleeping Saturday night in the heat, so they eventually packed it in and headed home.  When they pulled up to their house Sunday at 4:00 AM, they discovered it was on fire!  Jessica says if they had been home overnight instead of camping, there very well could have been loss of life.  And if they hadn’t returned from camping early, the house would have been nothing but ashes. The structure will be salvagable, but between…

I’m not sure how to organize all the pictures from our trip to Haiti now that we’re back and I have internet access, so I’ll just start chronologically.  Three weeks ago today we were in Pensacola, Florida. Jeff and Sheila Forshee were kind enough to put us up for a few nights.  We drove all day – through constant rain – on a Tuesday and then had Wednesday and Thursday to relax, catch up with friends and see some of the sights. Melissa and I moved to Pensacola a couple of weeks after we got married in 2000.  Within a…

FINALLY!  I have a usable internet link!  We flew back to Miami today and the kids were excited about the prospect of swimming and playing their Nintendo games … for me, it was the chance to finally post some pictures from our two weeks in Haiti. We have a long drive to Atlanta area tomorrow, so I don’t dare stay up too late tonight writing – I really can’t think of where to start anyway.  So I’ll just post a smattering of pictures here, maybe comment on a few and then I’ll sort through the rest in the next few…