December 30, 2010 Thursday – 7:11am (Eastern U.S. Time) – Cocoa, FL – Report submitted by Air Mobile Joe
In yesterday morning’s blog I wrote about relief worker, Paul Waggoner. I was in Haiti when he was arrested and happened to be working with another case involving another American that was arrested the day after Paul was arrested. In our case, the Missionary was completely innocent of the charges and still it took 3 days and a lot of prayer and a good legal team and the American Consulate to resolve our situation.
We were aware of what was happening with Paul Waggoner, but unable to help other than PRAY. As his case went on, we just continued to pray for the truth to be made known and….for wisdom, justice and grace to prevail. I cannot begin to tell you how joyous I was to read the news last night that Paul was freed yesterday afternoon! Apparantly, after 18 days, the evidence came to light and all charges were dropped.
Paul is not sure if he will come back to Haiti. I suspect he probably will. He has expressed concern that other relief workers / missionaries may take what happened to him and either not come to Haiti or leave Haiti. I pray that does not happen. Haiti needs all the help it can get and…..the relief workers / missionaries ALL THE PRAYER THEY CAN GET!
This is the reason, I so often urge you to pray for us and others as we help this desperate country in this desperate hour. Literally hundreds of thousands, if not millions are on the very edge (like a “razor’s edge) between life and death. So often, the victims are children and the elderly. This is the reason we keep going back. We know that often, though our help is relatively small in the big scope, we ARE able to help in some capacity.
Your involvement with our ministry is significant. Your prayers and help do so much to help us to go. Take yesterday, a number of volunteers showed up with small and not so small trailers. Load by load, box by box, we continued the move to our new facility. Voluneers like the Scarborough family showed up.
I first met Jason Scarborough 20 years ago. He was just a teenager and wanted to work in our ministry. He did for a number of years. Jason went on to marry Cindy and then joined the US Airforce. After serving for a number of years and rising to the rank of Captain, he felt led by the Lord to come back to Titusville. There, we re-connected. Recently, he sent his son, Garrett to Haiti with me. What a fine young man, just like his father. He has all the ingredients to become an exceptional missionary, or whatever our Lord has for Him to do.
Yesterday, Cindy showed up with her kids and they moved load after load of relief supplies to the Air Mobile hanger. Her children are such hard workers and have the same attitude as their mother and father. Their daughter, after seeing “Ti Burik” recently made this beautiful work of art.
Finally, we continue to pray for Haiti. When the election results are made public, there will likely be another wave of violence. We pray that does not happen, as many more will die. Haiti is just 2 days away from closing out the worst year in their history. We PRAY that 2011 be a better year!
Today, we continue our move. Have more volunteers on the way. Yesterday, we had to purchase a 40 foot storage container as our new facility is quite a bit smaller. Have to get over there to meet it this morning. Not quite a cold as yesterday. As always, THANK YOU for your prayer, love and support. I’m often reminded of the fact that if we really knew what happened when we prayed…..WE’D PRAY MORE! God Bless!
Air Mobile Joe
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