God of Details

I will wait for my next entry to tell you about our visit to our school/church in the mountian village called Counol. I was going to recount it for you now, but something has taken place which is important enough to jump to first priority.

Over a series of e-mails a whole plot was unfolded which none of us expected to start our day with. It starts all the way back between 1990-96.

One of our supporters, Lola Mitchell, partnered with Dee and Wilckly in the 90's and sponsored a child named Marie Ange in their children's home.

I met Lola in the week before I came back to Haiti in September, having made a visit to New Lenox, IL to meet with her and some members of her church.

Lola heard that some youth from her church will be preparing food at the National Missionary Convention for distribution to various Haitian ministries and wanted to make sure that we were one of the recepients.

She e-mailed Shelby Baxter, a volunteer at the ministry that, among other things, distributes the food once it arrives in Haiti.

Shelby passed our information along to one Gretchen DeVoe, who is in charge of the distribution.

Gretchen replied postively stating that she is already aquainted with Dee and Wilckly from years passed. Want to know how she is aquainted with them?

It turns out that Marie Ange (Lola's sponsor child) and several other kids whom Dee and Wilckly raised are from the same area as Gretchen's ministry. Marie Ange works for her now!

So the circle is complete. One child raised by dedicated parents was sponsored by a Stateside partner and grew into a capable young woman who now works for another Christ-centered mission. And the connections between all of us will come to fruition in the form of hungry children getting food in their stomachs!

Now, it is not official that we will recieve this food, which will feed hundreds of hungry children in our schools, but I do not serve a God who teases.

I am confident of the positive result that will come of this intricate web of God's divine- and somewhat humerous- plan.

Wow. This job is so much fun!

Much love,
C