The Beginning- January 15, 2010

Now it was Friday and we were for sure the boys were safe.  The five story building that housed the orphanage was damaged but still standing and the children had been moved across the street using tents as shelter on a concrete slab.  They were soon moved to the guest house (where we stayed while we were in Haiti in September).  Steven and I felt much better about them being there because it was up the mountain a ways and away from the chaotic streets of earthquake aftermath.  We knew that they had very limited food and water and we were taking suggestions and trying to cover every angle on what we needed to do to get to them.  I remember trying to pray but I was so tired that my prayers didn't seem to make any sense.  I was getting constant text messages, e-mails, facebook comments, and calls from people who were praying for Pax and I knew that people were praying.  So for a while I just stopped trying and let these people intercede on my behalf.  I felt very peaceful about this.  People I didn't even know were praying for my son -this was so amazing to me.  A lot of the updates we were receiving came from a ministry team in TN that actually had an intern at New Life Link (where our boys were).  They made it in very quickly and our children benefited from this, a lot.