Tomorrow morning, we will start our Kenya, Africa trip to go on two safaris and visit where they made the movie, “Out Of Africa,” and see the home where Karen Blixen lived. We love history and the animals of Africa.
We have been saving our personal money to travel to Africa and go on a safari for a while. Actually, as many of you know, we were supposed to leave for Africa last year on August 14th. Sherry and I had flown down to Miami on the 13th, to stay at the hotel, inside the airport. On July 13th last year, the spirit of the Lord spoke to my heart while in Miami to “cancel our African trip and buy a ticket leaving for Haiti on the 14th.” The spirit of the Lord had led Sherry the same way. We were in total agreement.
As we were boarding the plane on August 14th for Haiti, the stewardess stopped us in the middle of boarding. After a while, she told us that a 7.3 magnitude earthquake had hit Haiti. In about one hour we resumed boarding the plane. When we landed, we found out the 7.3 magnitude earthquake had struck South Haiti. We immediately started buying food, along with our Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) meals. With many of you helping, we were able to ship in “tons and tons of food to Jeremie and the South area” to many locations. Plus, with many of you helping, we purchased over 2,000 nice camping tents, to sleep “8 to 10 people” for those families who lost their homes in the earthquake. Then after this, we began to build those families a strong, beautiful “Gabion” house! The Lord knew we were supposed to be in Haiti on August 14h, not Africa!
Hopefully, we will be boarding the plane for Nairobi, Africa tomorrow morning. If the Lord speaks to us to change course in the morning, we will, “without hesitation.” Sherry has us in two locations, staying in a tent in the jungles (her idea) ha! Whenever we can get internet, we will be sending you pictures from Africa of the animals and the beauty of Africa.
Note: Jesse Ostrander and his wife, Kim, who are at Love A Child, will be doing our Facebook and our website posts while we are gone.
Rad Hazelip will be giving you our Agriculture Training Center updates every Thursday and Tuesday.
Please be sure and follow what’s happening in Haiti each day. Very exciting! Our children at our “Children’s Home” are wonderful! Be looking for pictures from Sherry and me. We love you and thank you for your prayers.
Missionaries Bobby and Sherry Burnette