Time to Process

Thank you to everyone who is praying for us at Canaan. Having today off, can’t decide if it has been a good thing, or a bad thing. I guess we keep ourselves so busy we don’t have much time to sit and think about everything that is happening around us. However, today we had that time. Sister Gladys finally had a day to process everything and talk with everyone. She met with the Haitian staff members this morning. Amongst all the evils and separation, yet another problem is between the Haitian staff and the American staff. For me personally, I can’t speak the language, so I am not trying to be rude. It is just very hard to communicate. However as a whole, they feel that the missionaries are being rude by not communicating. They brought this issue up to Sister Gladys, and said they are not going to care about us, if we refuse to care about them. Clearly that did not go over so well.
We have been going down to beach in the evenings a lot lately to try and escape all this stress. With Sister Gladys being away, we have not really communicated where we were going, or when we would get back. So this afternoon, we also got a firm talking to. A three and half hour conversation with Sister Gladys. It amazes me how much that woman knows. I have yet to sit and have a one on one conversation with her, yet she knows so many details about my life, and about who I am. God truly speaks through this woman. I can not fully explain, but she just knows. She knows everything. So far every time she has spoken to us, I have cried.
Amongst all this chaos, and even though she was a little frustrated with us, her words touched my heart.
I am feeling more at peace, but things around here are still not so great.
Right now she is speaking to the Haitian staff again. Earlier, she gave them an ultimatum. Shape up or leave. Some staff may be leaving us tonight. So I ask that you just pray for those people. I don’t know all the reasons, or details of this situation. I do know, we are short staffed as it is, so these next few weeks may be rough.
Convention….
As of now, last I heard, our kids will not be making it. There is not enough room on the flights. Check in is Saturday, or Sunday for a 25$ late fee per child. Even if they make it to Miami they still have to make the drive to Virginia. It’s not looking so great. We prayed a lot about it with Sister Gladys and she feels like this was all meant to happen. I believe the same. She feels that she needs to be here at Canaan through this rough time. She was thinking another option would be to take them next week, just for the end of convention, so they could see everyone’s work, and the award ceremony. Maybe get them to work harder for next year. And then spend a week traveling around. Who knows what will happen. It is all in God’s hands. All we can do is pray. Pray for these children, because they are going to be so devastated. Just pray that something good can come out of all of this craziness.