Caribe Tours

Tomorrow morning I will go early to the Caribe Bus Tour station in Santo Domingo and begin a 6-8 hour trip to Port-au-Prince Haiti. After spending several weeks communicating with engineers, engineering organizations, and volunteer organizations around the world trying to connect with an organization that could utilize an experienced structural/seismic engineer in an earthquake ravished country, it is through the body of believers that a path has opened for me to get into Haiti.

A couple of days after the earthquake, Kevin Morgan knowing I intended to go to Haiti put me in touch with Corrigan Clay and his wife Sherry who run an orphanage in Port-au-Prince. This couple is a friend of Shea and Sandy Morgan. They worked in German with Shea and Sandy prior to going to Port-au-Prince. They survived the earthquake and have been taking care of far more than the orphans.

Last night I wrote an email to Corrigan letting him know that I had not connected with any organization. Corrigan wrote back that he sees little getting done by the large organizations. But volunteers who just show up and volunteer are making a difference. He stated that every morning there are cluster meetings sponsored by the UN. Each different cluster has a focus. One may be medical, one housing, one children, etc. Cluster leader organize volunteers into work groups, give them assignments and send them off.

On receiving this input I thought that I could be of use to the Haitians. However, I did not want to show up without a place to stay and no idea where I would eat and be another body that needed taking care of. I passed this reservation on to Corrigan. He responded to my email quickly stating he would welcome me into their home and one more mouth to feed was not a problem. I will find out tomorrow how many mouths Corrigan and Sherry are already feeding.

As I wrote in an earlier blog, God’s body of believers are a power in this world. Love can work miracles, where our so-called 1^st world society tries to get their act together.

Post script:

Last night after posting my second ever blog I glanced at the first blog I posted. It is full of errors. I was typing a stream of consciousness and then I clicked on post instead of save. I couldn't see how to edit it once it had been posted. It was only tonight that I found that one can edit past posts. Which I did. My apologies.