What That Container Contains

On Friday of last week, we hit a major milestone in our preparation for this conference: We shipped off a 40-foot container out of Miami.

But now we’ve got problems again: They’re not letting the container off the boat in Port-au-Prince so it can be processed through customs. Originally, we were expecting to have the container clear customs on Monday next week, the day our retreat starts.

The materials inside that container are critical for the conference. Here’s what’s inside:

• Proclaimers: In a place where 1 out of every 2 people is illiterate, this is how you get the Word of God to them: solar-powered audio Bibles.  Faith Comes by Hearing, the manufacturer of these products, is giving one to each attendee of this conference.
• Haitian trauma books: David C. Cook has a 500-page counseling trauma kit.  It was adapted to Haiti and translated into Creole.  The first versions came off the press on Wednesday and were dropped shipped to Miami in time to ship for the container closing on Thursday.  This is a phenomenal resource: Scripture-saturated, group discussion oriented, and knowledgeable.  CHC is helping pay for the translation of these materials.  Each pastor at the conference will receive one.
• Tent: 5,000-square foot event tent and 250 cots: This will serve as one big bedroom where all the pastors will sleep.
• Mosquito repellent: Malaria, typhoid fever, and dengue fever. Need we say more?

A special thanks to Boca Raton Community Church.  All of this inventory was held there while we made shipping arrangements.  They used their staff and small groups to load the container before sending it off.  We could not have done this without you, thanks.

Any amount of time this container is delayed directly affects the conference. Please pray this process is resolved quickly and the retreat can go on uninhibited.