Meeting with Shannon

Yesterday we were finally able to get together with Shannon. He is the man I met on the plane ride home from our visit with St.Claire Hospital in Kentucky back in October 2012. He told me all about what the Lord was doing with the Hands and Feet Project in Haiti on our plane ride home. I knew the Lord had very divinely ordained our seats. He is on the board of HAF and we have not seen him since then. Dustin has talked with and been with some of the other leaders but it was so good to see Shannon and hear what the Lord is doing in and through him and then share with Him where He is leading us. What is the Lord doing with HAF? Shannon told us that as of right now all 100 children are fully sponsored. They have willing sponsors waiting for children to sponsor! They also received a donation of $250,000 to build a second building to house more orphans at the Jacmel location. They are also currently building another building for orphans at Grand Guave. They now have a handful of college football teams that are fully sponsoring a child and taking football players down to love, help with building and serve the children. The Lord is also opening up great opportunity to speak with other teams as the word gets out. The cost of support for each child a month is $300. Most sponsors partner together and 10 sponsors support 1 child. We were so excited to hear all of this! We will be speaking at our Residency Retreat this coming weekend about what the Lord has laid on our hearts for structuring and planning 2 longer trips and 2 smaller trips to help care for the children medically there. We are praying there will be a great response and eagerness to be involved, We are currently looking at taking 8-15 medical and support staff the last of October-First of November of this year. I am so excited to see how the Lord works this all out! Please be praying with us for medicine and immunizations connections and support, willing hearts to serve, travel planning and provision, and financial resources to provide for the costs involved. Thank you for partnering together with us in prayer!