Friday, January 11, 2008

Roadblocked!!!!




Roadblocked!!! It was raining hard the night before our mission to Lopez Jaena, Misamis Occidental, Philippines. at about 4 am our convoy of five vans and a toyota hilux pick up carrying the medicines started out for mission to the western side of northern mindanao. I was on the front seat of the first van following the pick up.. We usually hire vans before we acquired the bus we are using now.. As our standard operating procedure, we do our travel in convoy form without leaving sight of one anothers vehicles although we have walkie talkies in each assigned person in a van and ready cellphone numbers of each member. We were just past the boundary of Lugait and entering the city of Iligan ,except for the driver and me, all were fast asleep in our van. I was steadily looking at the red tail light of the pickup which was fading out in the distance and just suddenly this big tree on the left side of the road came crashing down in front of our van. I let out a sudden cry waking my companions inside. The driver was quick to brake just barely 10 meters away.. A loud hizzing sound and a big thud in front of us...A quick sound of relief vibrated in our group...Prayers of thanksgiving were offered and lessons experienced from our constant prayer of protection before leaving for a mission...we were blocked and yet with protection from Great God Almighty, we succeeded in our mission....

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