The Weekend…in Pictures

It would be an understatement to say, “We had a fun weekend!”
It was essentially a non-stop slew of events and good times with people we really love. Friday night we celebrated the birthday of Johnny’s sister Bethany with the Reid family, and had a blissfully relaxing time together while enjoying dessert and a DVD. Saturday, [...]

Call2All

News from John and jenni Gillespie

Here’s something worth reading if you want to hear a little more about what we’re up to next here in Kona and how some of that unfolded.

So, this April we’re leading a DTS (Discipleship Training School…you can go to www.uofnkona.edu to find out more!) and in Kona each DTS typically [...]

Airport Picnic

Writing from Kona now; we’re back home! It has been a packed week already, but a great one. Our favorite part about getting back home was meeting Kristin, who has come to Kona to staff the April DTS with us. We’re so glad she is here! You can meet her below.

A fun part of our [...]

Home Again, Home Again

Johnny is home! Yep, I got to pick him up at our little Kona airport on Sunday. It’s so nice to have him home again. We grabbed a quick lunch together (at Taco Del Mar!) and then headed to our house for a nice, long nap. Well, he napped, and I cuddled up to him [...]

Rice and Beans!!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLFVNVZVYNs]
In the midst of the chaos, grief, and pain that we’ve seen here, there’s been so much hope – and a TON of fun! We were working in the office on our last afternoon there and Terry ran in and asked us to come help with…. a GIANT truckload of rice and beans! I think [...]

Aftershocks

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgBctvefIU8]
We awoke this morning to the earth shaking. It’s such a weird feeling – I never will forget it since I was in that big one we had in Kona a few years ago. The same low rumble that you can almost feel more than you can hear, followed by a thump, then another [...]

So, Johnny, what did you and Jeremy do today?

Well… all we did was formulate and initiate an entire plan to mobilize a refugee relocation and rehabilitation effort for up to 10000 refugees from Port-au-Prince to St. Marc, working with the local government, schools, a bunch of NGO’s, the UN, churches, and volunteers. It starts on Thursday.
Then we strategized how to organize a national [...]

RHOP – Refugee House of Prayer – C'mon!!!

Yesterday evening I went over to the basketball court here on the YWAM base to spend some time with the refugees shaded from the burning Haitian sun. YWAM Haiti has been asked by the local hospital to house some of their less-wounded refugee patients, because they’re quickly being over-run by refugees from Port-au-Prince. I went [...]

That video from the other night….

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEeFaE7dBB0]
This is the video from the DR just before we crossed over into Haiti. It’s rad. Check it out and pray!
(Feel free to re-post this blog anywhere and check out www.jeremybardwell.wordpress.com for Jeremy’s perspective on our trip!)

A Little More from Johnny

I just got an email update from Johnny!
He and Jeremy are off to sleep now, so please pray that they get good rest.
He let me know that today they drove through the part of Haiti most effected by the earthquake, Port-au-Prince.
He says, “DR is largely free of any earthquake damage, so everything had felt fine [...]