**The RMI has been thrown back to the stone age. We have all been working from home, Panera Bread and cell phones for more than a week now. Thieves stole the power cables (a LOT of thick, heavy cables!) that fed a transformer from the street and then from the transformer to the office building a week ago. This left the office with no power. It took a while to diagnose the problem since the cables were all underground, then a police investigation, then the power company and electricians had to re-install everything, then the county inspection…….and now we are waiting for the power company to come back and flip the switch to put us back on the grid. Wow! We are so reliant on electricity to power everything, even the phones. It’s been frustrating to say the least. If anyone has been waiting for orientation materials to be shipped, information or answers to your questions, or calls to be returned, please be patient with us just a little longer. We are praying that power will be restored today and we can start the new week back in the office.
**Dan and Debbie travel to Ft. Lauderdale this weekend to be with Florida Bible Church. They are a new Sister Church and their first team to go to Haiti is giving their report to the church this weekend in all of the church’s services. It’ll be great to see the team and hear how their lives have been impacted.
Dan and Debbie will travel to Trinity College of Florida (where their daughter, Dawn, is a freshman) this coming Wednesday to participate in the college’s 3 day missions conference. They’ll have a booth set up during that time, but will also have an opportunity to share in chapel and have a 45 minute workshop for the students. The workshop is entitled “I am Green, how about you?” It’s not the being green concept that is thought of today. Pray it’ll bring in the students that God wants to challenge for missions.
**Rob and Becky are hard at work raising their support. They are at 80% of their monthly need and 26% of their one time needs. These last funds are traditionally the hardest part to raise, so really uphold them in prayer as they face this challenge. Rob is also hard at work at the office trying to finish projects and get things ready for him to hand them over to someone else. No, we don’t know who that “someone else” is yet, but we are earnestly seeking God’s guidance as to who that “someone else” will be!! Pray with us – it is a very key part of running the day to day operations of RMI.
