from Kimber King's Blog, "Life of a Wahm"
(read previous posts at http://www.lifeofawahm.com/)
So thankful to all my friends and family who have supported Stew to get to this very day! And thanks to those of you who will be staying with us and entertaining me while he's gone ;)
I have the greatest friends and family ever!
Godspeed Stewy! I love you so much! You are such a great example to me and the boys!
Showing posts with label Port Au Prince. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Port Au Prince. Show all posts
Friday, March 12, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
I'm not usually one to complain but.....
from Kimber King's Blog, "Life of a Wahm"
(read previous posts at www.lifeofawahm.com)
Many of you are aware that my hubby Stew will be leaving this weekend for Haiti with the organization, "Healing Hands for Haiti."
If you want to follow their journey, you can join their FAN PAGE at www.facebook.com/ucthealinghands or I just put up a NEW Blog at www.stewanddarrylgotohaiti.blogspot.com
Stew's trip to Haiti has been planned since November and so after the earthquake, the team was not sure if they would be able to get down there since they had purchased commercial flights. It's been a little crazy since then, but all systems were go and confirmed a few weeks ago!
The team of 26 has been getting ready for this trip and getting their families and lives all ready to make this 10 day service trip.
As we returned home from Church on Sunday, we had several frantic messages and texts that Delta Airlines has canceled their flight this Friday and won't be flying to Haiti until June.
Guess what? Delta hasn't contacted any of them! One of the team members, Brooke just "had a feeling" Sunday morning to confirm her ticket and called and they told her, "hey, by the way...your flight to Haiti is canceled."
This is just 6 days before the flight. So in a panic, the team members all had to start looking for tickets on other airlines, additional costs, schedule change, loss of days being able to serve in Haiti.
And here it is Tuesday morning, just 4 days before their flight was scheduled to leave and get this, Delta has still not officially told them their flight is canceled. Several team members have now called in on their own and they have advised them that this is correct and how to request a refund.
Luckily most of them have been able to reschedule on American Airlines but Stew and Darryl will lose a whole day in Haiti of being able to serve. They will not arrive until Sunday now.
It's all good and I understand that when you are stepping out to serve and do good, the enemy tries to stop it so I am always one who is flexible and can just roll with it, but I am pretty upset at Delta this morning.
They might have it in their policy that they don't have to notify you of a canceled flight but HELLO they have to understand that people who are booking a flight into Haiti must be going there for a purpose and serving down there. You would think that they would have the courtesy to reach out and help this team!
Could you imagine if Brooke would have not had that prompting to call and they didn't find out until Thursday or Friday! Ticket prices go up substantially, flights get booked and most of the team members have raised donations for their flight on their own.
Those that know me, know that I am usually "Polyanna" towards things but I really think Delta should have taken better care of this team.
A big shout out THANK YOU to American Airlines for picking up the ball that Delta flat out dropped!
What would you do in this situation? Would you contact Delta and let them know how this affected this team? Do you think they would care? I so feel like writing a letter but maybe it's best I just let it go and count the blessings that the trip still goes on!!!
This team was destined to serve on this trip!
No earthquake, $$$, flight cancelations can stop them! (enemy hands off this one and you are under their feet)!!!
P.S. I'll get back to my "Vacation posts" tomorrow...just had to vent a little bit today!!! ;)
(read previous posts at www.lifeofawahm.com)
Many of you are aware that my hubby Stew will be leaving this weekend for Haiti with the organization, "Healing Hands for Haiti."
If you want to follow their journey, you can join their FAN PAGE at www.facebook.com/ucthealinghands or I just put up a NEW Blog at www.stewanddarrylgotohaiti.blogspot.com
Stew's trip to Haiti has been planned since November and so after the earthquake, the team was not sure if they would be able to get down there since they had purchased commercial flights. It's been a little crazy since then, but all systems were go and confirmed a few weeks ago!
The team of 26 has been getting ready for this trip and getting their families and lives all ready to make this 10 day service trip.
As we returned home from Church on Sunday, we had several frantic messages and texts that Delta Airlines has canceled their flight this Friday and won't be flying to Haiti until June.
Guess what? Delta hasn't contacted any of them! One of the team members, Brooke just "had a feeling" Sunday morning to confirm her ticket and called and they told her, "hey, by the way...your flight to Haiti is canceled."
This is just 6 days before the flight. So in a panic, the team members all had to start looking for tickets on other airlines, additional costs, schedule change, loss of days being able to serve in Haiti.
And here it is Tuesday morning, just 4 days before their flight was scheduled to leave and get this, Delta has still not officially told them their flight is canceled. Several team members have now called in on their own and they have advised them that this is correct and how to request a refund.
Luckily most of them have been able to reschedule on American Airlines but Stew and Darryl will lose a whole day in Haiti of being able to serve. They will not arrive until Sunday now.
It's all good and I understand that when you are stepping out to serve and do good, the enemy tries to stop it so I am always one who is flexible and can just roll with it, but I am pretty upset at Delta this morning.
They might have it in their policy that they don't have to notify you of a canceled flight but HELLO they have to understand that people who are booking a flight into Haiti must be going there for a purpose and serving down there. You would think that they would have the courtesy to reach out and help this team!
Could you imagine if Brooke would have not had that prompting to call and they didn't find out until Thursday or Friday! Ticket prices go up substantially, flights get booked and most of the team members have raised donations for their flight on their own.
Those that know me, know that I am usually "Polyanna" towards things but I really think Delta should have taken better care of this team.
A big shout out THANK YOU to American Airlines for picking up the ball that Delta flat out dropped!
What would you do in this situation? Would you contact Delta and let them know how this affected this team? Do you think they would care? I so feel like writing a letter but maybe it's best I just let it go and count the blessings that the trip still goes on!!!
This team was destined to serve on this trip!
No earthquake, $$$, flight cancelations can stop them! (enemy hands off this one and you are under their feet)!!!
P.S. I'll get back to my "Vacation posts" tomorrow...just had to vent a little bit today!!! ;)
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Please...the people of Haiti desperately need you!
Good morning friends,
My heart is so heavy this morning. Earlier this week, I started preparing an email to ask all of you for support for a medical service mission my husband Stewart will be going on March 12th to Haiti.
As many of you may have heard, there was a 7.3 earthquake that hit this area yesterday and the devastastion is just barely starting to be realized. And they have had over a dozen after shocks since as large as 5.2.
I knew very little about this small war-torn, ravished country but attended a meeting with Stewart last week and realized that this country was one of the poorest country in the world and their needs were so great! These people have very little and my eyes had been opened to their incredible needs.
Now with this earthquake, I can't even imagine how much more these people could handle.
It's complete devistation over there right now and the communication out of there is little. It's hard to communicate normally. So like I said, we are still very uncertain of the devistation right now.
The organization Stewart is serving with is called www.healinghandsforhaiti.org At this time, we are still unsure if their compound survived the quake or if the currrent Healing Hands for Haiti team there now is okay? It's a two story building and compound right in Port Au Prince. As of this morning, we have only heard from 1 out of the 50 team over there right now. So please pray that we hear soon and that they are all okay.
You can watch a news clip and about 2 minutes in, Healing Hands for Haiti's Founder, Dr. Jeff Randle speaks about what is going on:
CLICK HERE FOR NEWS CLIP
Earlier this week I was going to ask you to consider a monetary donation and ask my Isagenix friends and clients to donate some "IsaKids" vitamins to Stew's "Utah County Team" for their trip in March but now I just ask you for any kind of donation you can for the people of Haiti in general.
As we wake up in our warm homes every morning, able to drive to where we need to, have meals with our families, etc... these people on a normal day, struggle with very little electricity, no transporation, scraping for daily meals and so much more. Survival is what their purpose is everyday!
We are struggling here in the U.S. because of our economy, but the hard truth is that the poorest of our people would be wealthy in their country.
Please just prayerfully consider skipping a few luxuries or even fasting and donating that money to them at this terrible time.
If you would like to make a direct donation to the organization, you can do so at the above site. If you still want to donate to Stew's Utah County Team, please contact Stewart's brother in law, Darryl Wagner at Darryl.Wagner@imail.org or 801-635-0677 to see what their needs are now. I was going to ask you send "IsaKids" vitamins as their focus is on teaching the people about general medical needs and nutrition but now I am not sure what would be the best way to help their team.
Also, Monday I had set up a FaceBook Fan page for their team. If you are on FaceBook, please become a fan at www.facebook.com/ucthealinghands and invite your FB friends as well to become a fan.
Thank you so much for your time in reading this today. I ask for at the very least your prayers for the people of Haiti. We are all so blessed and I know we are all very grateful for all that we have. If you have just a little you can do, please consider it.
Also, you can help spread the message by going to the bottom of this message and forward this to your friends, families, clients and teams as well.
Sincerely,
Kimber King
My heart is so heavy this morning. Earlier this week, I started preparing an email to ask all of you for support for a medical service mission my husband Stewart will be going on March 12th to Haiti.
As many of you may have heard, there was a 7.3 earthquake that hit this area yesterday and the devastastion is just barely starting to be realized. And they have had over a dozen after shocks since as large as 5.2.
I knew very little about this small war-torn, ravished country but attended a meeting with Stewart last week and realized that this country was one of the poorest country in the world and their needs were so great! These people have very little and my eyes had been opened to their incredible needs.
Now with this earthquake, I can't even imagine how much more these people could handle.
It's complete devistation over there right now and the communication out of there is little. It's hard to communicate normally. So like I said, we are still very uncertain of the devistation right now.
The organization Stewart is serving with is called www.healinghandsforhaiti.org At this time, we are still unsure if their compound survived the quake or if the currrent Healing Hands for Haiti team there now is okay? It's a two story building and compound right in Port Au Prince. As of this morning, we have only heard from 1 out of the 50 team over there right now. So please pray that we hear soon and that they are all okay.
You can watch a news clip and about 2 minutes in, Healing Hands for Haiti's Founder, Dr. Jeff Randle speaks about what is going on:
CLICK HERE FOR NEWS CLIP
Earlier this week I was going to ask you to consider a monetary donation and ask my Isagenix friends and clients to donate some "IsaKids" vitamins to Stew's "Utah County Team" for their trip in March but now I just ask you for any kind of donation you can for the people of Haiti in general.
As we wake up in our warm homes every morning, able to drive to where we need to, have meals with our families, etc... these people on a normal day, struggle with very little electricity, no transporation, scraping for daily meals and so much more. Survival is what their purpose is everyday!
We are struggling here in the U.S. because of our economy, but the hard truth is that the poorest of our people would be wealthy in their country.
Please just prayerfully consider skipping a few luxuries or even fasting and donating that money to them at this terrible time.
If you would like to make a direct donation to the organization, you can do so at the above site. If you still want to donate to Stew's Utah County Team, please contact Stewart's brother in law, Darryl Wagner at Darryl.Wagner@imail.org or 801-635-0677 to see what their needs are now. I was going to ask you send "IsaKids" vitamins as their focus is on teaching the people about general medical needs and nutrition but now I am not sure what would be the best way to help their team.
Also, Monday I had set up a FaceBook Fan page for their team. If you are on FaceBook, please become a fan at www.facebook.com/ucthealinghands and invite your FB friends as well to become a fan.
Thank you so much for your time in reading this today. I ask for at the very least your prayers for the people of Haiti. We are all so blessed and I know we are all very grateful for all that we have. If you have just a little you can do, please consider it.
Also, you can help spread the message by going to the bottom of this message and forward this to your friends, families, clients and teams as well.
Sincerely,
Kimber King
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