10 Days Left

Only 10 days from today me and my team leave for Haiti for 2 1/2 months. We will be flying into the Dominican Republic and be staying there for a week having orientation and such. Then after that we will be driving to Port-Au-Prince and be staying there for three weeks. We will be staying at the refugee camp which also has the orphanage right next to it. After then, we will be heading to the St. Marc base for another 3 weeks. After the 6 weeks in Haiti, we will be going to the DR once again for 4 more weeks to wrap things up. We are going to get the privilege of spending time with the Haitian children and also the adults. We are going to get to have bible studies, have mini DTS's (what we just went through here in hawaii) and get to do street ministry. We are going to get to use our cameras to take pictures of the poeple, the city, and the devastation. We can use our photos of the devastation to raise awareness for what the Haitians need and use the portraits of the people to show them how beautiful they really are. Back here in Kona, we have been really settling down. I haven't gone out and done much lately, i've been spending alot of time with one of my best friend Elizabeth Loebs (also my roommate) who is going to Haiti with me just relaxing and resting in our room during our free time. We wont have much free time or relaxing time once in Haiti. So we are taking advantage of it now. We just finished with our "Battle For Your Sexuality" week in lectures. It was a very eye opening week discovering the 4 core needs of a man and a woman, and also what porn does to a person and also to a relationship. It was also good learning about these things as I am currently in a relationship now. This weekend was very relaxing, finishing up preparing and buying stuff for outreach. We have this week coming up as our spiritual warfare week, which will also be very helpful to us as we enter Haiti, where the witchcraft and voodoo is very strong. After that, we have mon-wed as team building times, then our team heads out a week from wednesday (June 30th) in the evening. We have an all night flight to L.A. then to Florida, then fly into the Dominican. Please be praying for me and my team for safety and that God will give us the strength to push through this time that will be challenging but the most rewarding experience of our life. Thank you all for your prayers and support once again. I will probably have 1 more post before leaving for outreach, then the posts will hopefully come in between 1-2 times a week if at all possible updating you guys on our time in haiti, i also will begin to be posting picutres once i am there. I don't really feel the need of posting pictures from Hawaii on here, but once in Haiti i definitly will be posting some from our expereinces and our time. God Bless!

-Emily