Below is the latest on Haiti. Thanks for your thoughts and prayers. Please continue to pray for this fragile country. I will continue to update my blog as I hear any new information.
We also heard that the orphanages have had a meeting with MOI (which is where our paperwork is now). They promised to have paperwork out in a month. Ours has been in there 6 weeks. MOI has made promises before and not kept them. Currently they are taking about 3 1/2 months. We are still hoping for a July homecoming, depending upon the status of Haiti.
04/15/2008
Haiti Update
In speaking to Dixie from God's Littlest Angels last night, she mentioned that all government offices were open once again as of yesterday. GLA's staff were able to travel around and do their business as normal. Things seem to have settled once again, and for that we are all very thankful. Please continue to keep GLA and Haiti in your prayers.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Haiti
Please pray for Haiti and the orphanage where the girls are at (GLA, God's Littlest Angels). Food is hard to come by and the people are starving even worse then before. The following are the updates that we are receiving... I will continue to update you as I hear more news. Thank you for your prayers for our girls and Haiti.
Love,
Allison
04/08/2008
Riots in Haiti - Please Pray Dixie just sent out this update on what is currently happening in Haiti. Please keep this country in your prayers, especially at this time. The situation in the last few days has increasing gotten worse in Port-au-Prince. The price of food has sky rocketed in the last 4 months. Gasoline is now $5.93 USD per gallon which has caused taxi fares to also increase. For the average person and even those of us blessed with donations, day to day life is difficult. Our food bill has increased by 1/3 or more. Over the weekend, rioting started in outlying cities and yesterday we had some in Port-au-Prince. Today, the crowds broke the gates to the Civil Court building and also to the Palace. They are breaking store windows and stealing things out of stores. They are burning tires in the streets and breaking windshields on cars. All government buildings are closed. We tried taking papers to the courts but the court clerk told us not to come. Our son, Mark, had gone to school in PAP before the rioting started. Our driver picked him up at noon due to the problems. They had trouble finding a safe route home. Mark just talked to one of his school friends on the phone and they are blocked at a market in the city and crowds just broke a window in the car next to them. I told my staff that they would get more sympathy if they had mothers marching with their starving children! This violence does not help food prices nor make any sense to the rest of the world! We foresee tomorrow being much of the same. We do not see the courts or Immigration being open. So far, it seems quiet in our area. There is some road blocks on the mountain road but not as far up as we live. Please pray for all of our staff and the babies that everyone will be safe. Pray for Haiti and that food costs will decrease so mothers can feed their children.
04/10/2008
Update from GLA
I just received this update from GLA: The children and staff of GLA are safe. Deliveries to the orphanage have been interrupted because many main routes around Port au Prince and Petion-Ville have been blocked and because fuel is difficult to find. We are carefully monitoring supplies, fuel, and water to ensure we can continue to provide for the children. Offices in Port au Prince are closed, and adoption work is halted (courts, visas, passports, etc.). Please pray for peace and safety for the people of Haiti.
04/11/2008
Update on how GLA is doing
Category NoneBookmark : Things seem to have calmed in Haiti once again. There are still roadblocks that are needing to be cleaned up; however, people are, once again, able to move around. Last night, GLA was in quite a bind as they were out of propane for the stoves. They had to get quite creative with their supper and meals earlier in the day today. Thankfully, today the propane delivery company was able to make their way to GLA, and so once again, GLA has propane and can use their stoves. The latest "hurdle" GLA is facing is that they are out of water, and due to three large powerline poles across the road that GLA is on, the water truck cannot make it to the orphanage. They have been able to move the poles enough for smaller vehicles to pass; however, large trucks like the water truck cannot go through yet. Please continue to pray for Haiti and for GLA as things are settling down.
Love,
Allison
04/08/2008
Riots in Haiti - Please Pray Dixie just sent out this update on what is currently happening in Haiti. Please keep this country in your prayers, especially at this time. The situation in the last few days has increasing gotten worse in Port-au-Prince. The price of food has sky rocketed in the last 4 months. Gasoline is now $5.93 USD per gallon which has caused taxi fares to also increase. For the average person and even those of us blessed with donations, day to day life is difficult. Our food bill has increased by 1/3 or more. Over the weekend, rioting started in outlying cities and yesterday we had some in Port-au-Prince. Today, the crowds broke the gates to the Civil Court building and also to the Palace. They are breaking store windows and stealing things out of stores. They are burning tires in the streets and breaking windshields on cars. All government buildings are closed. We tried taking papers to the courts but the court clerk told us not to come. Our son, Mark, had gone to school in PAP before the rioting started. Our driver picked him up at noon due to the problems. They had trouble finding a safe route home. Mark just talked to one of his school friends on the phone and they are blocked at a market in the city and crowds just broke a window in the car next to them. I told my staff that they would get more sympathy if they had mothers marching with their starving children! This violence does not help food prices nor make any sense to the rest of the world! We foresee tomorrow being much of the same. We do not see the courts or Immigration being open. So far, it seems quiet in our area. There is some road blocks on the mountain road but not as far up as we live. Please pray for all of our staff and the babies that everyone will be safe. Pray for Haiti and that food costs will decrease so mothers can feed their children.
04/10/2008
Update from GLA
I just received this update from GLA: The children and staff of GLA are safe. Deliveries to the orphanage have been interrupted because many main routes around Port au Prince and Petion-Ville have been blocked and because fuel is difficult to find. We are carefully monitoring supplies, fuel, and water to ensure we can continue to provide for the children. Offices in Port au Prince are closed, and adoption work is halted (courts, visas, passports, etc.). Please pray for peace and safety for the people of Haiti.
04/11/2008
Update on how GLA is doing
Category NoneBookmark : Things seem to have calmed in Haiti once again. There are still roadblocks that are needing to be cleaned up; however, people are, once again, able to move around. Last night, GLA was in quite a bind as they were out of propane for the stoves. They had to get quite creative with their supper and meals earlier in the day today. Thankfully, today the propane delivery company was able to make their way to GLA, and so once again, GLA has propane and can use their stoves. The latest "hurdle" GLA is facing is that they are out of water, and due to three large powerline poles across the road that GLA is on, the water truck cannot make it to the orphanage. They have been able to move the poles enough for smaller vehicles to pass; however, large trucks like the water truck cannot go through yet. Please continue to pray for Haiti and for GLA as things are settling down.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Visa paperwork
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SivenciaWe just received the paperwork from Haiti that we needed in order to complete the visa applications for the girls here in the US. I mailed off the applications today. It is wonderful to get that paperwork and to see that the girls are legally ours and now have our last name! It is also frustrating, because we just want to fly down there and bring them home! We are still hoping for a July timeline. The paperwork has now been in MOI awaiting their passports for about a month (still saying 3 1/2 months).
We just received an update on the girls and they are all healthy and doing well. Brian was a proud papa when he heard that Falancia traded her Easter "rocks" in for gummies (Brian's favorite candy). We heard about their Easter and Falancia's and Sivencia's birthdays. We also got the following story about Jiovenda, that I thought I would share...
Jiovenda decided that the walls were a much better writing pallet than paper earlier in the month, and she along with three others took their pencils to the white paint. They made quite a mess and were not even concerned when they were caught. Wanting to teach them that their actions have consequences Joyce marched them all out to the wall, gave them a pale, brushes, and soap and made them scrub off their mess. It backfired on her however as Jiovenda LOVED the chore! She was more than happy to scrub and gave orders to the others as to where they should scrub, to scrub harder, and how much soap to use. Though the chore did not seem like punishment to her she has not written on the walls again, so it did the trick.
So if you haven't already, start praying for me now...
Thanks for reading. Love you all!!!
In Him!
Allison
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