Pray Harder!

I'm sitting in a room at the Wyndham Garden Inn about 5 miles south of the Atlanta airport. Dave's in a room across the hall. Compliments of Delta Airlines. I might be at the swimming pool, but my suit and most of my clothes are in my other suitcase -- the one still in Delta's possession. I might be in Belize, but the people at Pinnacle Air apparently put too much fuel in our plane this morning and took an hour figuring out what to do about it. By the time we landed in Atlanta, our flight to Belize was already taking off. Delta only has one flight a day to Belize. We weren't on it.
Dave joked last week about praying that we avoid hurricanes during our trip to Belize this week. It looks like those prayers may have been answered, since Ernesto looks like he won't make it to hurricane status. That's the good news. The bad news is that he keeps drifting southward, closer to where we'll be working on Tuesday and Wednesday. If you want to follow along at home, go to Google Maps and find Independence, Toledo District, Belize. Then follow the track of Ernesto and see if they intersect. Then pray that they don't.
Since we won't make it to Independence until Monday afternoon, we'll likely be spending all of Tuesday and Wednesday installing the water treatment system at the Georgetown Primary School, not far from Independence. I won't be making my planned four hour drive up the coast to Orange Walk with Ernesto coming ashore on Wednesday. Of course, working conditions in Georgetown on Wednesday may also be less than optimal.
On Thursday Dave heads to San Mateo on Ambergris Caye to begin work on a second water system at Holy Cross Anglican School. You can learn more about this school and the water project at:
http://holycrossbelize.blogspot.com/2012/08/rainwater-harvesting-at-holy-cross.html. As of right now, we aren't mentioned on this blog. Hopefully we can change that by the end of the week. If you've got a little time, google "san mateo ambergris". You may be shocked by what you see. I know I was. Pray for the children of San Mateo.

The new water tank at Holy Cross School, San Mateo

I'll be joining Dave on Friday afternoon, after a visit to Orange Walk, where there are plans to move a water system from a primary school to a church, and possible plans for another water system at Cornerstone Presbyterian High School north of town.
God willing, Dave and I will tie up loose ends on San Mateo on Saturday. We should have plenty of rainwater to treat, thanks to Ernesto. We'll celebrate and worship with the community on Sunday, and if all goes well, we'll be back home next Monday night.
Pray for us. Pray Hard. Pray Harder...
- dan