SEVERELY DISAPPOINTED, BUT STILL PRAYING FOR A MIRACLE

A REAL BUMMER

This is  what they looked like when I sent them off. 

Our nine boxes of toys, candy and clothes for the kids in two orphanages down here have still not arrived! They were sent on November 4 to Amerijet International, an airline shipping company in Miami that we have used several times before! We are missing ten mattresses for the guest rooms at the Pastoral Centre and thirty picture frames as well. 

It seems that many others down here are experiencing the same problem - a delay in shipment arrivals for Christmas. 

We can only hope they come next week in time for Christmas even though I will not have the honor and joy of handing them out personally! 

The only good thing - the kids do not know they are getting these toys, so they will be happy even if it is after Christmas! 

Me? I'm not at all happy about this situation! I have made many calls and had several sleepless nights in the last few weeks over this situation.
I even paid a visit to the local Amerijet office this week and talked to the head man to no avail. 

Many of us worked hard and long on this project, but these kinds of things seem to be a normal part of Caribbean life. Things never seem to come easy for so many people down here!

I haven't been this aggravated for a very, very long time and as each day passes it gets worse!

Lord, I need patience and I need it now!



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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BISHOP COUNTY
57 
YEARS OLD

Friday night a group of us took Bishop County out for his birthday. 

Bernadette, Ewansie, Desmond, Bishop County and myself. 
You can see the candles burning on his cake in front of him! 
He was born in the country of Trinidad and Tobago. He belongs to the religious community called "the Spiritans."  (Holy Ghost Fathers).