Day 2: It’s Working!
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his report just posted from Abraham McIntyre our Director in charge of the operations from the Bahamas clarifies our missions are getting supplies in and getting people out. It’s working. Now we need more planes, pilots, supplies and funding.
After two days of sitting in front of the computer at Camp Symonette it didn’t ‘feel’ like we were making much headway….but then today the pieces came together. This is a very short version but more details and stories on their way.
Cameron King (BMH Pilot) and Dave Spangler (FlyN4God Pilot) staged in Inagua, Bahamas on Thursday afternoon. I then gained them access to land in Port-au-Prince at 8:00am Friday by a US Army C-130 pilot via Facebook (of course…). Upon arrival they found out the teams of 8 and 46 missionaries that they were supposed to begin evacuating had been taken out at 4:00am, a huge blessing. So the next best thing is to grab whomever and get out. They did just that. Now a family of 5 is spending the night in North Eleuthera waiting for a flight to Miami, FL.
Steve Merritt (Bahamas Habitat Treasurer) and Charles Stites (Able Flights ED and Photojournalist) made their trek from Ft. Lauderdale to Nassau to pick up medical supplies and a Rotary supported Doctor and Nurse. Then to Inagua for fuel and off to Cap Haitian to make their drop off with our contact, Ann Jordan Reynolds of Montgomery, Alabama. She is volunteering/working with “Partners In Health” (Dr. Paul Farmer’s org). She is great and guaranteed that ALL supplies would get to the right hands and EVERY LAST band-aid would be used.
“We are totally overwhelmed with people moving out of Port-au-Prince into the rural areas, Oh thank you thank you thank you for sending the supplies!” Steve and Charles then headed back to Nassau to rendezvous with myself, my parents, Matt Hansen and Cameron King. We are all staying together at Queen’s College, our Methodist School.
Meanwhile….two more planes were being loaded with medical supplies in Ft. Lauderdale (9:00pm). David Robertson arrived from Cullman, Alabama and Ken DeYoung flew straight from Northwest Iowa to join us! Our team of medical supply donors lead by Mike Sullivan and Bob Denison did an amazing job of getting the supplies donated and loaded in the plane in a VERY short time frame.
Next:
All four planes will meet in Nassau at 9:00am to pray, debrief, load up with supplies and get back down to Haiti to drop off supplies and bring back missionaries that no longer feel safe in Cap Haitian and Les Cayes. We have great contacts on the ground in Haiti and ask that you support our efforts by either donating medical supplies in Ft. Lauderdale (mike@sullivan4irsmatters.com) or donating monetarily to cover our aviation fuel expenses. And don’t stop praying WITH us!
If you know of any groups/individuals that can get to the Cap Haitian or Les Cayes Airport, please let us know ALL known information and we will do out best to evacuate them…..that also means we need more planes, pilots and money.
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Thank you for your support! It’s working.
Peace and Love.
Abe Abraham (Abe) McIntyre
Executive Director
Bahamas Methodist Habitat
Camp Symonette, James Cistern Eleuthera, Bahamas
To communicate with our team of coordinators by email use: help@bahamashabitat.org