Package Updates
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It is long overdue but I will be updating my prices for the 2010 year. For those of you who have already booked packages… no worries. For those who are still on the fence, I will still honour previous prices if you contact me soon.
Take a look at my prices page for more details.
LFCN Worship
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Usually I am up with the worship team playing music. But, this past Sunday I had the opportunity to take pictures of our church’s worship service. I really enjoyed hearing the music from the audience this time. Here’s a few shots from the service.
John Lawson adds his tasteful licks... or should I say John Mayer
Rockin Out
The team
Worship
Hard At Work
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My Dad is back home safe in Canada but continues to work hard to secure relief efforts in Haiti. Another team from Emmanuel International is preparing to go down.
Click Here to see a link from Rogers Tv who interviewed my Dad.
Continue to keep Haiti in your prayers and on your heart.
Welcome Home
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For all of you who have been praying for my Dad and his team: thank you!
Yesterday, he went to the Canadian embassy and was able to get on a military flight home to Canada. He is now home safely and attempting to process all he has seen and heard.
Please continue to pray for Haiti and local churches attempting to recover. There is an extreme need for food, water and basic living conditions.
Here are a few links if you are not sure of how to help:
Emmanuel International – The organization that my dad is a part of
Churches Helping Churches – Mark Driscoll and James McDonald’s project
Video Sermon from Mark Driscoll – Awesome information
Call from Haiti
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Last night I received a call directly from my Dad in Haiti. It was interesting and kind of surreal to realize I was talking to someone close to me who is on the front lines in such a harsh situation.
My Dad accounted how they have to sleep outside so that nothing falls on them in the middle of the night. He sounded very weary, and rightly so. There is not nearly enough food to go around and dealing with that reality is tough.
Continue to pray for safety and strength to persevere through this. As of right now, the team’s plan is to return home to Canada on Sunday. Pray that travel plans would come together.
Finally, an encouraging, heart warming image I saw on MSNBC this morning:
Boy rescued from Haitian rubble
Haiti Updates
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I just wanted to have a central area to keep everyone posted on the work of my Dad in Haiti. I can’t remember to keep everyone updated so I will post information here as I hear it.
Here is an email I received accounting some details:
“Dear friends,
Thank you so much for your prayers for Andy and his friends Dave Lock, and Andrew Lock, (paramedic Toronto EMS). They arrived safely in Port au Prince last night. Their original intention of flying directly to PauP early Monday a.m. did not happen. There was no flight. Instead they flew to Santa Domingo in the Dominican Republic hoping to rent a vehicle and drive across. Instead they were met by Pastor Jose Lopez (arranged by a mutual friend), spent the night with Jose’s family, then were able to join a convoy of Dominican aid workers that were departing the next day. A long and slow journey, including a flat tire and many food/supply drops, and they were met by Pastor Martinez at a town outside of Port.This morning there was another 6.1 earthquake in Haiti. Andy reports that they are all fine. The school, girls home and church at Delmas 33 (Bethesda) suffered little or no damage but most continue to sleep outside. Pastor Martinez has set up 7 community contact points in the area around the house, to help determine specific needs of his neighbours. He also said there are no words to describe what he has seen.
Update on Marbial and Cabaret (two of the outlying church & school compounds): The school and dining room at Marbial have both suffered extensive damage! There were not many injuries to individuals, just structures. Cabaret school also has been heavily damaged (this is where the high school is that many students travel very far to attend, sleep at school during the week and travel home on the weekends).
Food and water continue to be scarce, we pray for aid to reach Pastor Martinez and his new community of neighbours he is trying to help.
For those of you that have been to PauP when coming past the traffic circle going to the orphanage it was absolutely heartbreaking and very emotional for Andy/Dave, it looks as though a bomb has hit the area. There is virtually nothing left. It has been a very long, tiring day but God has made a way for the team and we are so thankful that they are safe. Praise The Lord!
There continue to be many, many needs. Please pray specifically for
- safety
- physical rest
- prepare their minds and hearts for what they are about to see
- renew their skills and provide the equipment
- That God will bring them to where He will use them.
- continue to pray for the Haitians and those still trapped alive.
- for the country of HaitiThank you for your prayers!”
Christmas ‘09
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Day 1: With high hopes of an uneventful trip to the North we (Josiah, Angelica, and I) started out from Lynchburg only to make it about 1.5 hours. Angelica’s lovely little car, named kramudgen, decided it didn’t like driving any more. Going approximately 65 mph and having the entire car shut off isn’t my idea of fun. To make a short story long, we had to call a tow truck and park Angelica’s car at a dealer in Staunton, VA. One of our good friends came and picked us up and brought us back to Lynchburg.
Day 1.5: When we arrived back in Lynchburg, I decided the only logical thing to do was to pack sleeping bags in my fiancee’s vehicle and start over again. 12 hours later we would be home. So off we went into the night so we could make it to Canada. We were going solid for about 7 hours before I had to pull over to sleep a little. So there we were in a tiny little town in Pennsylvania somewhere, parked in the lot of a small town bar, trying to sleep. What an adventure!
Day 1.75: After a whopping hour and 30 minutes of sleeping, or me listening to my brother snore we continued on. Needless to say we brought er home in style!
Here’s some pictures from the more awake part of our Christmas trip:
