John's Journey- Update

These are from John's emails.  Thought I would let him tell his story with pics.  He flew out this morning to a new area.  He arrives back in Port-Au-Prince (PAP) by Saturday.  Then we will make arrangements to bring him home! :)


On Monday the 21st and Wednesday the 23rd we went to a remote church south of Cap-Haitian which was turned into a clinic for those days. What is an hour drive and then an hour and a half hike on steep terrain was a 7 minute flight by helicopter. I had the pleasure of assisting my home church (Camano Chapel located on Camano Island, WA) with a medical team on the 21st and then a dental team the 23rd. The first day was full of excitement from locating a suitable landing zone, to flying a woman who needed immediate medical care at a hospital about 25 miles away, to two young boys who accepted Jesus and wanted to be baptized.

January 24-25:  Many gathered to say goodbye when we left. The following day(24th) I went to a small village "Pourrier" to see the work a local pastor (Volner Alexandre) is doing. He started 12years ago with nothing in a village isolated from vehicles because of a river on one side and steep mountains on the other. There is now a school with over a hundred children, a church and soon an orphanage. I was able to tell the children a little bit about helicopters and Samaritan Air.

 

January 25 - Volner and I then flew to his home town "Savanette" and landed literally in his backyard behind the house he grew up in. He wanted to show me some land he would like Samaritan Air to build on and use as a base of operations. They even took time to show me the new well with clean water they had recently completed. Very kind people.