Kim and Patrick Bentrott Blog about their Evacuation from Haiti & First Week in the US

Many readers who come back here looking for more information about Kim and Patrick Bentrott, missionaries with Global Ministries in Haiti, have been checking in vain for the last week. I've been waiting too. This morning two new blogs have appeared on Adventures in Life. The the one titled Evacuation, Kim writes of the lengthy process of being an evacuee on a military cargo plane, processing in Orlando, flying to Denver, having their new daughter Valancia checked out in a children's hospital and finally resting at the homes of friends. This week finds them in Kansas at the farmhouse where Kim's parents live, and she writes in the blog titled Quiet about the reflections and memories that are flooding back, beginning to mourn for the friends and work they have lost. I quote just a little from her conclusion:

After a week in Denver, we now find ourselves in my parent’s farmhouse in Kansas, miles away from the nearest neighbor. Here the lights of the city are too far away to pollute the night sky. Quiet overtakes if we forget to speak. Here we will be forced to remember, to cry, to heal.

We’ll have to push aside the guilt of having the luxury of removing ourselves from the rubble and struggle to sit in the land of plenty and convenience, creating space for healing. We removed ourselves to take care of our family. We did so out of necessity. We do so in order to better serve in days ahead.

So we’ll face the quiet, drudge up the images, remember the faces, cry the tears, and question the heavens. We’ll humble ourselves to be the recipients of good-will and charity. We’ll heal ourselves and our family.

And then we’ll organize. Plan. Rebuild. Join forces. Get to work. Because the longer we are away, the harder our hearts pull us back.