Sorry I haven't updated everyone on how my trip was in Haiti in the last part
of August. I've been so busy.
The trip was terrible but God redeemed it. Terrible because the container company
made a mistake and thought our container had arrived but it was someone elses.
This was frustrating as the reason I flew down there was to distribute the supplies
to some other churches and kids we are helping. After recovering from the disappointment,
god did something really cool. (go to my youtube.com page. Type in kirkoverstreet in search and watch videos)
The next morning we got a call from the Southern Baptist that the "Buckets of Hope" shipment
has arrived for us to get that day. "Buckets of Hope" was a collective effort from the Southern Baptist
churches in the USA that filled 5 gallon buckets filled withe beans, rice, flour, sugar, pasta,
peanut butter, and etc. They gave us 100 buckets. The timing of this was amazing because we gave
away a lot of the food to make room for all the pallets from the container we thought was here.
The container made it to the ports of Haiti the week after I left. It is still in the port as they are
wanting more money from us to get it out. They have port taxes and other fees we didn't plan for.
Please keep this in prayer. I have been overwhelmed every day and you can imagine Pastor Bobby's
emotions as he drives back and forth to the port agents office. This has cost more than we expected.
Pastor Bobby has to pay for taxis to take him back in forth and has had to buy food until we get the container.
Everyone has asked when I am going back. I have plans in December and I am looking for a team of
people to go and help bring more supplies for the kids for Christmas and help distribute them. I am still
praying for the dates and hope to know soon.
Those seriously interested get a passport and then contact me.
We hear from Gerry in Afghanistan every week now. It's good to hear Tamra laughing with him on the
phone. He comes home in November. He recently had a rocket zip pass him. God has protected him
in so many ways. He was promoted to team leader. This has put more pressure on him. Pray for him
to have confidence, be alert, and a strong leader.
Tamra has been working a lot. She has been battling a cold and seems to be over it. She is singing in
the praise band at church again and doing Bible studies with the ladies at our discipleship home in Yucaipa.
She has been able to pray and minister to a lot of patients at her work lately. She refers people to
Set Free all the time.
Kyle is doing well in 8th grade. He has a new passion for Jesus and some great friends that love Jesus.
He is an inch shorter than me. Don't tell him but I think he can take me down now.
He is big and not done growing.
Pray for an outreach we are doing at Yucaipa High School this Friday. We set up at the Sizzler parking
lot and when school is out we crank up the music and draw a crowd by giving sodas, candy, and prizes away.
We then share the wonderful news of Jesus with them. We have a giant concert at Paradigm that night to
share more about the love of Jesus.
Pray for our annual "HALLOWED BE HIS NAME" crusade Oct 30th. We have some great bands this year
and expect to have record numbers out this year. Pray we get a car to give away. We give one away every
year. We don't have one yet but in faith we put it on the flier.
Pray as I preach at UCLA Sept 30th. I was invited to go speak on the NEED of JESUS. I am humbled and
excited to share on a campus filled with future leaders of our world the greatest information they can ever receive,
JESUS is for them! Please mark your calendar and pray for me.
If anyone wants to continue to help SET FREE HAITI, please contact me or send checks/money to
Set Free Church
13700 Calimesa Blvd
Yuciapa, Ca.92399
memo: RESTORE HAITI or HAITI
I will be asking for monthly pledges to help them. Thanks!
