November 3, 2009 – Tuesday 9:40am (Eastern Time) – Titusville, FL – Report submitted by Joe Hurston (Air Mobile Joe)

In all my years of doing relief work, I have never seen a region struck by 5 storms in 5 weeks, but there is another strong tropical storm (Tino) brewing to the northeast of Manila and headed straight for the Philippines. PLEASE PRAY for this storm to turn away. Early signs are that Tino is beginning to weaken and break-up. Please pray that it continues to do so. Meanwhile, we are preparing diligently for our journey to Manila and the surrounding area. We depart the U.S. on Thursday morning and actually arrive into Manila late Friday evening. We lose a full day enroute. We are already making solid contacts and will be quite busy getting clean water into devastated areas. Our arrival time will be very close to the projected landfall of Tropical Storm Tino. I must tell you a very cool story.

Over the weekend as we were preparing to purchase our tickets, the fares were steadily increasing in cost. Saturday evening I hesistated awaiting final confirmation on our team members. On Sunday morning when I checked the fares, the cost had gone up over $500 per ticket! All I could do was pray. Our family went to church. As usual, my phone was on vibrate. Just when worship began, my phone vibrated. I did not recognize the number. Something inside told me to respond immediately. I stepped out of church and phoned the number back. On the other end of the line was Amy. She had heard me speak several months ago. Amy is from the Philippines. She asked what she could do to help. I asked her to check and try to find lower air fares. She went to work. I went back to worship. Before our church service ended, my phone vibrated again. It was Amy. I waited a few more minutes for the Benediction and rushed out to return Amy’s call. She found ticket for nearly $600 per ticket cheaper!! Praise God! I rushed to our office and bought our tickets. Our Lord is with us in the big and small details. Saving nearly $2000 in airfare is the cost of a Voyager!! We are running into deep challenges to get all the parts in for our scheduled departure early Thursday morning. Again, PLEASE PRAY that all the parts arrive and the Voyagers come together and function excellently. They will save lives in Jesus Name! I’ll report as things develop.

THANK YOU for praying and standing with us!!

Air Mobile Joe 

PLEASE CONTINUE READING DOWN TO SEE HOW THIS TRAGEDY HAS BEEN UNFOLDING – Joe