March 24, 2010 – 9:47am – Wednesday – Bon Repos, Haiti – Ruuska Village / Report submitted by Joe Hurston (Air Mobile Joe)

Yesterday, as planned, I found Cindy and her niece, Jennifer in Village #2 of 3. I arrived within the hour of what Cindy had projected. It’s cool when we work together like that. Cindy’s mission was to find survivors of the quake and link up with the children that she taught and even children that she delivered 26 years ago! She was successful!! We had coffee in the house of Martha, her dear friend when she first arrived in Haiti in 1983. Martha was in town on mission business. Afterwards, we headed back into La Ferrone’ and dropped our backpacks and headed into the village where Cindy and I first ministered together, Petit Place (Little Place). So many warm and tearful reunions! The photo above is Cindy, her Dad, and I in front of the original mission building. 

We then went to the last home that we had lived in until 1997. It was right on the fault-line and the front of it cracked open like an egg. It was sad to see our old home destroyed, but the coconut milk was delicious. After our homecoming, we headed back to La Ferrone’ and had lunch with Cindy’s Dad, Ron. It is just amazing how this trip has come together. Cindy and I then headed into a mission close by making inquiry regarding a place to establish a home base and how we can get those 3 trailers in country and set up. We need guidance from our Lord on this matter. Do you recall, several weeks ago when I told you that we met Mark Allen Stuart, the Lead Singer for Audio Adreneline? Well, we found out that the mission that his parents started had a major water problem since the quake. We made arrangements to fly back to Jacmel in the morning (today), train his staff on the operation of the Voyager and give them a ride back to Port-Au-Prince to catch an early flight back to the U.S. 

We were up at 4:00am again, had coffee with Ron and then Cindy, Jennifer and I jumped on our trusty little motorcycle and headed to the airport in Port-Au-Prince. We were there before the sun rose, prepped our trusty mission plane and at 6:30am were rolling down the runway for Jacmel. It was a perfect flight through the mountains to Jacmel. We landed at 6:52am, a bit early. Soon Mark, his wife and Larry showed up. We trained them on the operation of the Voyager. Mark even put his dirty foot in the bucket and we all drank the water after it passed through our “miracle machine”. By the way, the water still tasted good even with Mark’s dirty foot in the bucket! 

We boarded the plane and headed back to P-A-P and landed at 8:12am, a full 2.5 hours before their commercial flight back to the U.S. Mark promised to come and see the children at the Hospital where Cindy and I minister. The kids will be so blessed to know that Mark is coming to minister with them. 

From the airport, we headed to Barbara’s Village. We arrived at 9:15am. Now, that’s putting a lot of mileage under our belt and “behind” by 9:15am!! Anyone who has ever worked in Haiti will appreciate that! We’re headed back to the Gressier area and will be flying back to the states soon.

God Bless!!

Air Mobile Joe & Cindy!

 PLEASE CONTINUE READING DOWN TO SEE HOW THIS AND MULTIPLE OTHER MISSIONS HAVE UNFOLDED!!