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Al with the timing belt that has broken 3 times...

Good day everyone!  This morning finds us working from home because we have been finding it hard to get around lately.  Our car has been in the shop a number of times in the last couple of weeks and has been resting there for the past 4 or 5 days.  This means that we are back to taking the taptaps around.

Taptaps are a big part of the public transportation system here in Haiti.  They could be school buses, 15 passenger vans, or--the most common--pickups with benches running along the bed.  Each taptap has a route that it runs multiple times each day, so if it is going the direction you want to go you flag it down and hop in. It may stop multiple times to let people get in or let people get out and sometimes those pickups have well over 20 people in them.  Drivers seem to think that there is always room for one more...

Taking the taptaps around is rather inconvenient because it takes us a LOT longer to get where we need to go, so we find that it's difficult to do our job.  We have many trips coming up in March and really need to be able to make sure each team is hosted well and each pastor finds encouragement from these teams.

As interesting and calming it is to be taking public transportation, we really need our car to be able to what we need to do.  Please be praying that we can find the parts and the funds to get our car fixed.  Pray for the mechanics that they would know how to fix it.  Pray that we are able to get much accomplished in the meantime.