Good by to the Reinhards

This morning, Joan, Tim and the girls, Sarah, Bethany, Hannah and Faith are leaving to go back to Haiti. The sky has opened and the rain is drenching the earth to try to keep up with the mourning here in Peoria. We will not see them again until next June, Lord willing. It is important for them to go back to Haiti but sure is hard to see them leave. Joan was given another paper from Mike Reiker with the total so far of funds coming in to help pay medical expenses and Joan and Tim's door fund for Haiti now exceeding $34,000.00. The Reinhards are very thankful for the support. Joan said Mike was hand copying the addresses off the checks before he would deposit them for thank you notes but finally got wise and just started using the copy machine to copy the checks. I was thinking of the money this morning when I remembered Amy Koch gave me 2 checks, one from her and one from Cathie Trent, to give to Joan that are STILL in my purse! I will run them out this morning to them even though we will not be walking in the rain. Nothing like leaving it until the last minute, at least I can get them to her before they leave this morning. They are traveling by bus to O'Hare around 9:30am, will get up to Chicago around 2:30pm and their plane doesn't leave until 6:40pm. Diane has offered to take them so they don't have to wait so long at the airport but Joan said the kids were really looking forward to the bus ride.