April 14, 2010 – 5:39pm – Wednesday (Haiti Time)- Ruuska Village – Bon Repos, Haiti – Report submitted by Joe Hurston (Air Mobile Joe)

Welcome to Haiti! We flew in this morning. The rules are changing again; now vehicles are not allowed into the General Aviation Airport, increasing the challenge of unloading and just getting out of the airport operation area. Such is life…always changing. 

We fueled at Exuma International Airport. Junior Strahan’s son fueled our plane. Now, Junior has been fueling our mission airplanes for 30 years. It’s good to see the tradition carried on. 

Our landing at Exuma International was in a fierce crosswind. It was a challenging but successful landing. Then we proceeded on to Port-Au-Prince. 

My passengers included Nadia, who is an Air Traffic Controller for Haiti. Talk about a blessing! She taught me several of the critical and complicated approaches. It was nice getting the training from a controller who sees the Controller end and then… she was able to see the approach from the pilot’s vantage point. This was a great blessing for us both. My other passenger is Garrett. Garrett is the oldest son of Jason. I have known Jason since he was about the same age as Garrett. Jason packed up and moved to Cocoa / Titusville nearly 20 years ago to work in Air Mobile Ministries. I am so glad to see Garrett following in his father’s footsteps. Well, we’re here for the next few days. We’ll share with you the things we will be doing. Haiti is experiencing more difficulties. Heavy rains have already begun to fall. Fuel is in short supply. It is so difficult to function here. Please pray for the missionaries and the victims!

God Bless!!

Air Mobile Joe 

PS – IF YOU ARE NEW TO THE BLOG, YOU PROBABLY FEEL AS IF YOU ARE JUMPING INTO THE MIDDLE OF THE STORY. WELL, YOU ARE. JUST READ DOWN AND YOU WILL SEE HOW WE HAVE GOTTEN TO THIS POINT. Joe