Greetings from Haiti and the June 2010 missions team. We have all arrived safe and sound and are trying our best to shed our winter layers and quickly adapt to the EXTREME heat. Our trip here was not without a few hiccups along the way, a few being having to quickly think on our feet and replace all our bins in Fort Lauderdale with duffel bags and a missed connector flight in Houston by some of our team from Beamont. Needless to say the story of how these issues were resolved was nothing less than a miracle. We arrived Saturday afternoon after a hot dusty long drive from Port au Prince being welcomed by the kids and staff as we drove in the gates of the heart to heart compound. Saturday was a day of getting oriented with the surroundings and settling into the temporary guesthouse which Darcy and a team from Red Deer set up only 6 weeks ago. It is really an amazing structure which will serve its purpose well. We ended the day with a swim at tyno beach and a cold Tampico (haitian drink). Sunday we spent the day in church with everyone having a chance to try their best at public speaking and kids sneaking a nap on the laps of Sarah, Barry and Lauren. Monday we quickly jumped into doing tasks and of course playing with the kids who you just can't resist. I understand that an update letter was sent to you stating that we received our container, well.... We did take receipt of a container on Saturday but it was not the container we loaded with food and construction supplies back in Abbotsford. It was the second container of supplies sent to us from Red Deer. As Gary mentioned to the team on the first day of the trip..."missions trip =flexibility" and this is definitely the case. We will continue on as best we can and are not deterred in getting the Kitchen up and out of the ground this week. I am running out of time so I will do my best to post a bunch of pictures on the blog tomorrow with a few more stories and maybe a few testimonials.