Continued Prayer for the Liborio Family 

Update 12/29

http://lectiocontinua.blogspot.com/2009/12/sad-but-ultimately-not-tragic.html

This news is not happy news but praise the Lord he is with the Heavenly Father.  Please let everyone know that their prayers are greatly appreciated by his wife Sara who is asking for continued prayer for herself and their two small children.

12/21/09.. Sarah & Hugo Liborio are DR members. They are SCORE missionaries in Juan Dolio. They went to the States for the birth of their baby girl in October and were waiting for her paperwork to return. On 12/21, Hugo, 29 years old, had a heart attack and brain aneurysm. The last we heard from Sarah, they were doing one more test before taking him off life support.

Please pray for his wife, Sarah, and children, Mattias (2 years old) and Layla (2 months old). Sarah is giving glory to God and praying God uses this example to energize His servants to serve more fervently with the life we have been given.

Update from the Dominguez 11/23/09

Dear Agape Flights,

 Our family says thank you! Thank you for carefully shipping our belongings when we journeyed all the way from Dallas , TX to Santiago , R.D. 

The children who attend our Kid's Klub each week say thank you for always getting their prizes and books here on time!

Our little 5 year old Starr thanks you for delivering her large envelope full of letters from her friends in Dallas when her brain seizures started again and she was having a hard time adjusting to this new land and people.

Thank you for allowing the pilots to stay at our house for an evening! What a joy it was for our children to actually have real pilots under their roof!

Thank you for making sure that the clothes we needed arrived when we needed them!

Thank you for keeping the missionaries connected...we made new friends here.

Thank you so much for living out your name-Agape!

Thank you for Roger Mort, he's a great guy! Tim, Glen and the other captains as well!

We love you,

The Dominguez family  

Update from the Wrays  11/25/09. 

This afternoon Deb met the Agape flights airplane to Cayes.                  

Update from the Reinhards.

Dear AGAPE Family of volunteers and staff:

            We want to try to express our heartfelt thanks for your kindness during this time of our great loss.  It brought tears to my eyes again as I opened the second box that you sent.  Your prayers, love, and support are greatly appreciated and thank you for showing your love in such a practical way.  We will be reminded again and again as we enjoy the goodies you sent of our wonderful Family of God that continues to lift us up in prayer.

            May God bless you for your thoughtfulness.

 In Christ,

 Tim & Joan Reinhard

Haitian Tragedy

Les Cayes , Haiti  

Sunday 10/18/2009

The Tim and Joan Reinhard Family

 Please pray with our Agape Flights family and continue to lift up the entire Reinhard family in prayer.

They have traveled back to Peoria , Illinois . 

The Reinhard Family Ministry website is: www.reinhardconnection.com

Sunday morning, October 20, 2009, a member of the Agape Flights Missionary Family was on his way to church on a motorcycle with Gabriel, their five year old son in front and Sarah their sixteen year-old daughter behind. A motorcycle came from a hidden side street right out in front of them.  The motorcycles collided and then Tim’s motorbike careened off into a concrete ditch where it hit hard. Gabriel flew into the air and came down on his head. Sarah and Tim were also seriously injured. They were rushed to the hospital but Gabriel died shortly after arriving in spite of all efforts.  

Gabriel Reinhard Obituary

Gabriel Reinhard

Gabriel Joel Reinhard, 5, of Peoria died Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009 in Les Cayes , Haiti where his parents and family were involved with missionary work.
Gabriel was born March 12, 2004 in Pekin , IL , the son of Timothy and Joan Meister Reinhard.
Surviving are his parents; and five sisters, Kristin (Rodney)Menold of Peoria and Sarah, Bethany , Hannah, and Faith, all at home. Also surviving are his maternal grandmother; Rhoda Meister of Hanna City ; his paternal grandparents, Dan (Delores)Reinhard of Remington, IN.; 17 aunts and uncles; and numerous cousins.
He was preceded in death by one brother; Joshua; and his maternal grandfather; Paul Meister:
Gabriel attended the Sheridan Road Apostolic Christian Church in Peoria . Gabriel loved being in Haiti with his family and enjoyed catching crabs on the beach and frogs and loved to go fishing. Gabriel was such a joy to our family. We thank God that he was a gift to us and that we had the chance to love and raise our son and brother:
Visitation will be held from 2 to 4p.m. and 6 to 9p.m. Thursday at the Apostolic Christian Fellowship Hall at 7329 W. Route 150 in Edwards, IL. Services will be held at 10:00a.m. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Memorials may be made to Apostolic Christian World Relief Haiti, restricted in Gabriel's name.
To send condolences to the family online, go to www.EndsleyFuneralHome.com.

Note from a Missionary Family

On behalf of all of the missionaries you service in the D.R. and Haiti, we want to thank you for a job well done for all you did for us this holiday season. Thank you for all the shopping you did for all of us, for all of the extra coordinating, time, effort, shopping, and chaos that was involved, and for the extra flights to ensure that all of our Christmas shopping and boxes from home came in time for Christmas. Our hearts are heavy laden with gratitude; that's the truth. Neither the finest thank you notes the world has to offer nor the most embellished words and phrases of thanks can begin to express our thanks and appreciation to you. But please know that we are grateful beyond our ability to express it. Your sacrifices in our behalf have been translated into great joy and pleasure, and much gratitude. Thanks to everyone for everything. May our Lord, who has seen and noted every sacrifice, every deed, every point of service, reward each and every volunteer and Agape Flights in full measure in your own areas and levels of need. Rick and Pam Mithun, missionaries in Santiago, DR