First of all I would like to say thank you so much for all of your prayers and support for me while I was on this trip in Haiti. It was a fantastic trip and I can't begin to express the amount of things I have learned. I am safely at home now. I arrived home wednesday morning, very early. The trip home was smooth for the most part, besides two delayed flights in Miami. I got through US customs and got to my gate to find they had just delayed my flight 30 minutes. I had only a 35 minute layover in Chicago, so they rebooked me on another flight through Dallas. That flight ended up being delayed an hour and a half due to the bathroom in the plane being out of commission. I made my connection in Dallas by five or ten minutes.
As I said above, I can't begin to express how much I have learned over the course of this trip. The Lord has really talked to my heart in showing different things, as well as just the overwhelming amount of things I have learned about so many other topics. There are people in Haiti who still need immediate food, shelter and relief supplies from the earthquake who are not getting it. The Haitian government is corrupt beyond describing, and most relief supplies will never ever make it to the people who need it. It is resold or gotten rid of. I won't go into the other politics behind what is going on, but I do know that God is in control here. God is the only one who can change Haiti. The message and hope found in Christ is what is able to transform any nation. Through the love and hope of the message of Christ, I know that Haiti can be a transformed country and rise from the ashes it is in. Haiti desperately needs Christian leadership... someone to be elected to the office of President, and be willing to serve the people, as he is elected to do. If a person could stand above the corruption and lead on behalf of the people, the country would follow that man.
This trip has been life changing in many ways and I will never forget, nor cease to apply what I have learned and been guided to do as a result of this trip. The road ahead is promising, and I know God has so much to be excited about in store. In a few weeks, I will be heading out on a mission team through Europe with Royal Servants. I will be gone seven and a half weeks with them, and unfortunately will have little to no internet access the entire trip. I will almost be totally out of communication from what I have heard, which will be a different environment for me as well. This trip though will be different in the fact I am with a team of guys and girls my own age. That in itself makes a huge difference. It will be a very exciting trip where the Lord has given me the opportunity to get exposure to mission work on a much wider, global basis.
I want to attach a few more photos of this trip. Below, I have posted a few photos from the latter part of this trip that I hope you enjoy. The first picture is of the one good highway that exists in Haiti just nearing sunset. The second photo is of the beach near Charocol. The third photo is the beach that is near Labadee, at the Cormier Plague Hotel. The fourth photo is a picture overlooking Cap Haitien.
Thank you again, all of you for your prayers and support. It means a lot to know that people were home praying for me when things were tough. It was a great trip and I look forward to returning leading a team this coming January. This will be my last planned post, but I am pretty sure I will just leave the blog in place just in case I have a future need or request for it on further trips.
-Garrett Luck
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