the ayars affairs: on our way home...

Our flight into Haiti tomorrow seems to be good to go, and we are just waiting! The big January 16th presidential runoff vote has now been delayed until further notice, though our constitution says we must have a new president in office by February 7th.

We were disappointed to hear this as that tension, disappointment, unrest, uneasiness and concern continues to prevail while votes, meetings and announcements continue. The relative quiet that Haiti has been experiencing these last days isn't the same as PEACE....everyone is anxious to have this settled, to have it settled WELL, and to be able to move on as a country...

Now is a good time to get back in while things are calm and before whatever unfolds with Haiti's new leadership. You can read more here.

With the one year anniversary of the earthquake quickly approaching, trust us, it is not just America that is dismayed over Haiti's very few obvious advancements and changes since last January. As Haiti pops in and out of the news these next few days and reports of the earthquake and the current state of Haiti are shared, we ask that we each follow every report with a few moments of prayer for Our brothers and sisters in Haiti.

Many of our beloved (by Him and by us) students continue to have mothers, sisters, siblings and friends living among the rubble in Port-au-Prince. Keep the plight personal. The people we're all seeing in the news are Jean Marie's family. Berthil. Simeon. Jean-Marc. Nicole. Gesner. Leandre. Junior. Alex. Freny. Their families.

We are ALL His Creation, but if you are one of His Children, know that many of those you are seeing in the news are His Children, too...please be praying for Haiti one person at a time, and don't be dismayed (as we're fighting not to be) by "how things are in Haiti." Pray instead just that He would continue to work...
...and we're excited to get back tomorrow and have lots of new stories of exactly that for you!