Jeff sent this to me tonight:

Nate,

Well, we have arrived in Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic.  It has been an interesting trip so far. Nothing to unique about the long process of getting to the island of Hispanola.  However, now that we are here and were sitting down for dinner, one of Jay’s contacts met us and welcomed us to his country.  The next words out of his mouth were not the ones we wanted to hear.  He said, “Well, I have some good news and some bad news for you.  The good news is that you have made it this far.  The bad news is that one of the planes is out of service and won’t be ready for some days from now as a piston needs replacing and the only one is being shipped from Chicago.”  If only we would have known this in advance, we could have picked it up and delivered it!

There is still another plane that is available, but it can only carry cargo, no passengers.  So we are looking at our options.  I have emailed MAF in Haiti to see if they could transport us and we could ship all the medical supplies separately.  Another option is to drive for 8 hours to the coast and try to catch a boat for another couple hours to some port in Jacmel.  Yet another option, and the least desirable to us (and anyone who ever encounters adversity), is to wait– wait for God to present a solution or for his direction.

Jay is planning to meet with the guy who arranged our flights to Jacmel and see if there are any other options that we don’t know about and we will try to update you as we learn more.  We are all racking our brains to locate individuals who might have planes, or people who might have contacts in aviation that might be able to make some connections on our behalf.  We are stumped right now, but everyone is in agreement that we need to be praying for a solution.  We would love it if you all could be praying with us that God will move in a mighty and unforeseen way to glorify himself through this.

Jeff