Prepared & Ready

This is what we are. Ready. That's the only word that comes to mind about our trip to Haiti. We are ready. Yes, we are excited, joyful, happy, eager, cheerful, in high spirits, thrilled, in wonder, but mostly, we are ready. We are ready for what the Lord is going to do in us & with us. We are ready to share the love of Jesus with the people of Haiti. We are ready to see Jesus change the lives of people & families. We are ready for our lives to be dramatically changed & for us to never be the same. We are ready to never look at other people or the world the same. READY! Ready because we have been prepared for all these things.

"For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." Eph 2:10

The Lord our God has gone before us & prepared the way for us, He has prepared our hearts, He has prepared the people's hearts, He is always ready & prepared. We are nothing special. We are ordinary people just like everyone else. We sin everyday, we mess up, we make mistakes, we are not perfect, but we have been saved by God's grace & have been redeemed by His love! AMEN. We do not want anyone to think we are trying to tell everyone how good we are by going & serving. We are telling about it because this is what God wants to do with everyone. He wants to use us to be God's workmanship, to do good works, He has already prepared this in advance for us to do! (Eph 2:10) It's hard sometimes but we must be obedient to the Lord & what he is calling us to do. We must say YES! YES LORD!

Ok, I feel like I'm preaching a little so I'll move on, but God is Good & He loves You so much & I could just go on & on about Him.

We are leaving before the crack of dawn.. 2:30 Saturday morning. We will be flying out of ATL at 9:40. We will fly to Miami & board the plane for Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. We will be arriving in Haiti at 4:20. 

We were so blessed by a donation of money from a church in Winfield, but the children of Haiti will be even more blessed because with this money we were able to purchase:

 13 3lb. cans of baby formula which will make 1,157 4 oz. bottles

 60.5 oz of Cocoa Butter (they love it)

 3 lbs. of Dum-Dum suckers for the kids

 2 soccer balls

 baby Advil & Tylenol

 box of 120 crayons

20 bars of antibacterial soap

a HUGE coloring book with 120 stickers

sidewalk chalk

13 oz Vaseline

GOD IS GOOD

Then we get to Berry (my parents house) & we have a package addressed to Kendra Hocutt (maiden name) that has two containers of Similac baby formula in it. It only has an address for a return address, no name, & there is $20 in coupons in it for more formula. There is nothing in the box about it being a trial offer & nothing that we have to pay, & we haven't filled anything out online for this. A gift from God. I love the way He works. He just keeps preparing! AMEN.

We are ready & prepared. We ask that you will be in prayer for us as we travel & are in Haiti. Pray for the people of Haiti, the children of Haiti, the missionaries & groups that are there, & that Jesus would come to be the center of Haiti. We thank you in advance, we have already been feeling the prayers that are being said for us. You know, the enemy doesn't like what we are doing, he has been trying to get to us but our God is bigger & greater & we aren't going to let him get us down! Casey is trying to get a little sinus infection so just pray that will dry up NOW! We will be back the 25th!

Blessings to you all in Jesus' name, we love you, & be ready for picture & update overload!