The Haiti Team gathers Saturday evening to finalize the packing for the trip.
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T-2
By Diane
Greetings from Clovis. Yes, we are still here. It’s T-2 days and this is still a test to see how the blog works.
Our biggest challenge now seems to be to get everything packed. We thought we had made good progress on packing all the gifts last Saturday but it turned out that some of the bags were too big for airline regulations. So now we’re looking for bags that are big enough to be worthwhile, yet not too big to go for the regular rate. Well, that’s all for now. Back to packing.
Haiti Team Departs March 24th
Sunday, at about 3 PM, the Haiti Missionary Team will leave Clovis for San Francisco for a flight to Newark, NJ. From there a flight to Port au Prince. Then travel by land to Thomas.
There will be a formal send-off at the Palm Sunday worship service at Memorial at 10 am.
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By Ron
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TapTap
(Stock photo. Not sent by the Haiti Team)
Testing post of a very large picture…
3648 × 2736
Sent through Gmail to Haiti Blog
A Haitian “TapTap”
Trip Preparations
By Ron Z
As one would expect, there’s a lot of prep involved with a big trip like this. Even though I’m not going, I want to help. I spent of time getting solar cells, cables, and batteries together to go with the group just to help insure everyone can communicate with home by keeping their cell phones charged. I have had previous experience with that. That stuff will stay in Haiti.
Since I, personally, want to hear as much as I can from the group, and my wife, I set up this blog site for everyone to use. I hope it gets used. It will be permanent, central record of everyone’s experiences, thoughts, feelings, and info for others going to Haiti in the future. I’d like to see short posts, like tweets, and longer entries. And pictures.
There’s going to be a lot to do to keep things going at home and church with the absence of my wife and so many active members. -Ron