Hello Everyone,

It's Thursday & I wish to catch you up on a few of the lastest actitivies I was involved in today. This morning Brian, Dave , Jall and myself went out on a fishing boat with some Hatian fishermen. It was quite an adventure. The boat was a homemade type wooden boat I would estimate 10 feet long. It had a homemade type sail with home made wooden poles for the mast. We did this to understand the plight of the local fishermen so we can better understand how they make a living. We learned it is a very hard way to make a living. These men dive down in approxmated 12 feet of water looking for fish or snails(they look like conk shells). I believe they can sell the large ones for 60 cents (US). They use a snokel & a mask & flippers. We all tried it. It's very difficuilt to see anything. They did find a few & a couple of star fish which they can use for bait if they fish using traps.If they see a fish they have a homemade spear that looks like a thin piece of re-bar with a shapend end. They try to spear the fish by thowing it at the fish. However we learned the better living can be made by the bamboo made traps. The traps cost about $2.00 each. I believe ORR has decided that we would bless them & purchase them some traps. It was not their boat so I believe they want to own their own someday. We had to sail to the far side of an island & it took over an hour each way. So as you can see it's a lot of effort for very little money. We did get sun-burned being such white skinned pansy's from Nebraska. Side note got back in time to help with the food program with the kids & would you believe we had just enough food for all the childen. Thank you Lord. Some of went on a tour of the worst damaged areas caused by the flooding. Would you believe a 14 foot high wall of water coming down your street. It's going to take years before it all cleaned up if ever.

Thanks for your contining prayers

Rich DelSenno