Archive - February 4, 2010

Haiti

Dear Friends, 

It’s been a while since I communicated with you since I left the Senate.  If you’re interested, below are updates from my mission trip to Haiti that I am on as we speak.  I’ve spent two days in the Dominican Republic with a group of friends with Global Effects Ministry.  http://globaleffectministry.com/ We arrived in Haiti about an hour ago to distribute water filtration systems.

Blessings,

Paul

Port-du-Prince, Haiti

After spending two days in the Dominican Republic we began our journey at about 3:30 a.m. CST.  We boarded our first bus in Jarabaco, D.R.  We drove to the Capitol city of Santa Domingo.  Most of us are used to booking on line or through sites such as Travelocity and others.  We had to purchase tickets for each leg of our trip each time we arrived at a destination.  When we reached Santa Domingo we met our entire group and Scott went in to purchase our tickets.  There are 10 total.  Our host in the D.R., Michael and Lisa Ballentine drove their pickup and took two others with them to complete the advance work for our team.  The remainder purchased bus tickets and waited about an hour to board and another before we departed.   Continue Reading…