Kim Priore

Hey guys – not much to report today as it was a pretty slow day for me.  BUT bigtime prayer request…Pastor Jephthe has malaria.  He was complaining of not feeling well yesterday on the trip to Cap, and was worse this morning so they made him go to the doctor.  Those in the malaria know (basically everyone except me, they’ve all had it multiple times) say that he caught it early enough (unlike last time when he stubbornly refused to go to the doctor) that he should start feeling better in a day or so.  They also say, however, that when you have to do the malaria treatment in such huge doses all at once that it makes you feel really run down and crappy.  So this is a prayer request on a number of levels…OBVIOUSLY first and foremost for Jephthe…what I should have mentioned yesterday is that the reason he was late leaving for Cap is he was preaching at a prayer meeting at church…as in a prayer meeting that meets before the sun’s even up.  Then after we got back from that hellish ride, he didn’t even have time to sit and eat, he was off to lead a Bible study.  All of this on no sleep because they have an 18-month-old and a newborn.  The man’s amazing, he never stops going.  So I’m very concerned for him.  Also, not to be selfish and make it about me…but this is what I get for trying to be all laid back and Haitian and not pepper him with a million questions all at once.  Now time is running out for me to get the info I need for Bright Hope, and I’m trying not to panic about it.  So anyways, if you all could keep him in prayer, as well as me that whatever God wants me to accomplish on this trip he will make happen and that I will just have to trust in that. 

Other than that, I’m being very chill.  I’m up at Caleb and Debbie’s right now, and with our few hours of city power the kids are watching Return of the Jedi.  Hardly roughing it.  But eventually I’ll have to return to the guest house and the no running water.  Oh well.  A few more days and I’m home!  Love to you all.  And bigtime shout out to Jamie for hooking me up with the malaria pills!  Good thing I covered that base.