Make Your Plans in Pencil and Give God the Eraser

Hello friends and supporters,

"Make your plans in pencil and give God the eraser." That has been the motto for the last two days. The three relatives of Kathy and Alice were set to fly out this morning... that was before their flight was cancelled due to problems with the MFI airplane. They were all packed up and walking to the truck to load their stuff when they found out. God has a plan that is greater than our own.

Another major change... as of three days ago, I was planning to go to Pastor Peyot to stay with his family starting this morning. That didn't happen. I am still at EBAC for one more night and will be leaving early tomorrow morning for the Dominican Republic with Pastor Cebien. I will be gone until next wednesday, and really have no clue what ministry work I will be doing. Pastor Cebien is a very trustworthy and extremely knowledgeable Christian. Kathy and Alice toured Haiti over 30 years ago with Pastor Cebien when they first arrived. They completely recommended going on any trip that he offered to take me on... so here I go.

We will be staying in Santiago I believe, which is about four hours from here... I think. It will be a great few days and a fantastic opportunity to be exposed to new ministries that are going on both in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

Two events from the last two days that I wanted to note: First of all, I had a chance to go through what is called the "Iron Market" in downtown Cap Haitien. This market is a huge, bustling metropolis with vendors filling the streets all over the place. We only went through a small part of the market, where we picked up fresh peanuts that we had hand roasted last night. It was an experience to go through the largest open market in Cap Haitian. It is nothing like what you would ever see in the states.

Secondly, today I had the opportunity to go out to the "Black Beach." This beach is about 40 minutes outside of EBAC and is a beach that is covered in dark grey sand. It is a beautiful place that was pretty clean in comparison to most of Haiti. Myself and Kyle, one of the members who was supposed to leave today, got to swim out in the warm waters of the Caribbean. It was a nice break away from the work here at EBAC.

It has been a great trip so far and I will keep you posted on all that will be happening in the next week. I am not sure what I am getting into over in the Dominican, so I don't know if I will have internet... just letting you all know. It may be that I don't update the blog until next thursday. I will do my best to update before then.

Have a great night and thank you all for your prayers and support!

-Garrett Luck