Lauri’s Blog

I just wanted to remind you of our friend Ad deblaeij and his bike trip across the US.  Ad lives in Haiti but is Dutch. Anyway, you’ll enjoy his photos and stories. Keep praying for his safety too.

Don’t worry, it’s not me…but a friend is riding his bike all the way from Washington state to New York to raise funds for poverty. How cool! We’ve been close friends with this Dutch family here in Haiti for years. The wife Coby taught Sammy Pre-Kinder here at Quisqueya Christian School. The husband, Ad works with Christian Reformed Mission and their office is across the street from our house. Ad is going to attempt this cyclying trip from Sea to Sea from June to Aug.

If you are interested in learning more about Ad’s trip or if you can make a donation towards ending poverty, please look at his blog:  http://bikingC2C.blogspot.com

Or if you’d like to look at the website: www.SeatoSea.org then look up his name as a particpant and for the donations towards: Ad de Blaeij, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

We’re so proud of Ad! Pray too for his health, strength, and even that he has fun!

I am really excited about an event called “ReignDown USA”, a national call to repentance and prayer for America.

The event will be held in Washington D.C. on the National Mall on April 26, 2008 and will be broadcast nationally to participating churches via satellite, on the internet and (hopefully) on the GodTV cable channel. The time of the event is 6:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. For additional information on “ReignDown USA”, click on the following link: www.reigndownusa.com

I strongly urge everyone who is interested to attend a satellite location, get on the internet or watch if it’s on cable, to do so.

If you look on their web page and follow to the written copy of the vision, it’s just amazing: http://www.reigndownusa.com/visiontext.html

I guess better yet would be if you could watch one of the videos (I couldn’t). Before moving to Haiti, the church I belonged to was Community Church of Joy in Arizona. Walt Kallestad is the Pastor. Shawn-Marie is his daughter and she’s the woman who had the original vision. The testimony of how she and Walt met President Bush, her talks with Michael W. Smith and other details are truly incredible.

We are planning how we can take part here in Haiti too.

I have praises and prayer requests.

1. We are so grateful that today seemed calm in Haiti. The streets seemed quiet and there weren’t road blocks, burning tires or shootings reported. We did have very loud automatic gun shots on our street on Saturday.
2. Our school will have some staffing needs next year. Teachers should be signing their contracts by tomorrow so we’ll know more what openings we have. If you know teachers who love God, love kids and want to teach overseas, let me know!
3. Also our church here is looking for a new Pastor. Karl Olsson our current Pastor has given notice that he’d like to step down by 2009 so we have a search committee already working on digging up leads. We are praying for just the right man, so join in praying with us and also send us names.