Ten Thousand Angels - Day 13

Dear loved ones and friends

The reason for the title is that I (Gerry) woke up this morning and felt impelled to ask God to surround our team today with the 10,000 angels. And I believe that God answered that prayer with what happened later in the morning.

We were at the job site, starting to run the cement for the roof when we ran out of gas for the cement mixer. Dickie, Karen, Ed and Cabano decided they would run for the fuel. As they were turning the corner to come unto the road to the compound a tap tap hit them in the rear passenger side just behind the rear wheel. Cabano flew unto the cab of the tap tap; Ed was knocked off the back of the truck and twisted his ankle - not real seriously - mostly sore. Inside the vehicle, Karen flew across the cab toward Dickie and suffered a knock to the head and possible cracked ribs. Dickie was knocked out and suffered a cut to his nose. When we reached the truck it was surrounded by forty to fifty Haitians and growing. There was a lot of yelling and screaming going on and our people were standing around in shock. The police did not arrive for almost an hour and a good part of the morning was taken up with settling the accident with the other driver and the Justice Department. We know that God was watching over and protecting them through this ordeal and we give Him all the honour and glory. Please pray that there is not too much stiffness and pain for all them.

Back to the job site - we poured cement until 2:30pm and then the job was finished. Everyone was so happy. We have had comments that maybe it wsas a bigger job than we thought when we came down - you're right - it was!!!

After we finished paying the men we invited the workers who had been with us for the whole two weeks to come over to the compound for a final good-bye and to give them some small gifts.

It was a great time of sharing.

Then after the workers left the children from the compound came to the meeting room for their good-byes. This was a very emotional time. The children took turns singing for us - in English. And then there were the hugs and kisses....

This is the last blog before we reach home. Thank you all for all your prayers and love - it has made all the difference.

Love and prayers

Haiti 2009 Team

We will leave you with some pics of the last day and some of the kids.

See you soon.