Friday, July 4, 2008 - Car Accident

Last night Patty and Erin went to the mall.  On the way back Patty dropped Erin off at home and went to fill the car with gas as I was headed out to camp in the morning to meet with the realtor.  On the way back just down from our house she was going round the curve and a bus was coming the other way.  She moved right to let the bus pass as she went around the curve and there was a cow in the road right in front of her.  She hit a telephone pole.  She had her seatbelt on and the airbag went off. .  She had a full set of x-rays and didn't break anything but she is feeling pretty beat up from the impact. The car is totaled, but insured.  It was very fortunate that she had dropped Erin off at home beforehand.  A metal toolbox, jack, and other assorted tools that had been in the trunk broke the passenger side windshield right about where Erin’s head would have been.

Last week I sold my car as it had developed a crack it the chassis and if it got any worse it would not sell.  So right now we are without a car and I have more to do than can get done. 

The mission has decided to sell the camp property.  With the fall of the dollar and the loss of our other personnel here in Belo it is just too much to manage.  Over the past two years I have tried everything I could to keep it up and running but it’s just too much.  Last Monday I hired a truck to move the kitchen facilities and 44 of our mattresses to the Sports Center property.  I have been going back and forth to camp trying to work out the values of the camp property with a realtor about an hour and a half away.  Much remains to be done with that so this is no time to be without a car.

In two weeks we will be hosting a group of about 50 people at the Sports Center for an evangelism campaign.  They will be spending one week each helping Copacabana and Hope Baptist conduct child evangelism in two public schools and in the neighborhoods.  This was put in motion back before we knew we were leaving in August.

Tarik, who had been living at the Sports Center and doing a fantastic job of taking care of the property, has been granted a visa to go to the US to get married.  I need to find someone to replace him for the year we will be away.  Valcione, on of my church young people (OK he’s 34) wants to do the job.

You can see, we really need some prayer right now.  We trust the Lord still knows what He is doing and know this will work out for His glory. We are thankful that Patty wasn’t seriously injured in the accident.  On the bright side, we don’t have to sell her car so I can scratch that of the list of things to do.

Please keep us in prayer this week.

By His Grace,

Dave, Patty, Erin, Karina, and Daniel Luke McIntyre