Quito during the summer is an interesting place to be. There seems to be a mass exodus of missionaries during the school vacation, and they are replaced by summer missionaries, work teams and tourists. There are a lot of new faces around!

Right now we’re planning and preparing for our next trip to Haiti. Our team leaves on Aug. 28, and today we had our first team meeting. We are going to be working with Samaritan’s Purse in the Cité Soleil area of Port-au-Prince. A small clinic is there, and we will be seeing patients from the surrounding areas. Security will be a huge issue, but we know that God has opened up this door for us to serve, and we’re trusting and praying that our team will have an impact for God’s kingdom.

One of the best things about this kind of ministry is working with such a great team! Today our meeting was punctuated by jokes and teasing, and I know that as we work in Haiti we will work hard under very difficult circumstances and intense heat. But we will work as a team and gain huge encouragement from each other as God knits us together in love and we become useful instruments in His hands. We do serve an amazing God!