11.6.06


land rovers, helicopters and bikes oh my!

well as you might of read on the last entry we are supposed to be out on outreach right now but we seem to have run into a bit of a road block you could call it along the way..... firstly we are all ok, just bumped bruised and quite achey..... we were headed out to kubeckhaza and about an hour away from home we got into a accident. Honestly looking back we cannot help but to praise God for his protection and that we were all able to walk away from the accident with only bruises sore backs and necks and small cuts. Looking at the shell of the land rover and were the back roof caved in it is truly a miracle that neither lynnette or sandi (who were sitting in the back) were not seriously injured. This was the first trip out with our newly finished land rover which had been donated to us, as we were travelling down the high way we could feel the trailer been pulled around by passing semi trucks but it wasn't anything to serious, but then we had a comibination of high winds and a semi that passed us much faster then the rest, we all felt the trailer begin to fish tail and it just got worse and worse, joska who was driving did his best to get it under control but it was just to late and he did a miracolous job getting us into the grass and not into the semi or guard rails, the front of the land rover dug in and we did an complete end over end roll landing on the top back corner and then rolled onto the side of the vehicle, as you can see the majority of the damage was done on this back corner and lynnette is feeling the most effect from the crash, but mostly it is just a sore shoulder from the seat belt. We were able to crawl out of the sun roofs which had been smashed out to the amazment of the stoped witnesses. Sandi had small cuts on her hand from broken glass but that was the extent of immediate injuries. We then unpacked all our belonings, alright we gathered all our belonings, lynnetts sunglasses which she had been wearing were 15 feet behind the land rover along with sandi's purse, joskas wallet and all sorts of other things, seat belts are so wonderful! I recomend them to all! Lynnette laid down and we gave her some blankets to keep warm, this was a mistake since on arrival of police, speed bike mortcycle doctor and paramedic helicoper it got alot of people excited. Yes thats right even a helicopter came out for us and insited on taking lynnette flying away which we thanked them for but turned down as a completely un needed adventure since the motorcycle doctor gave us the ok on her sore muscles, I guess they didnt want to go back empty handed. So the land rover is a right off and the trailer is in need of some work and safety checks but the most important thing is we are all walking, I guess its time to look into a different vehicle for ovm. Maybe God is telling us its time to move up to a bigger bus or something as the demand and need for it in hungary is so great! We were treated today to a breakfast made by team mates and then they took us to the thermal baths for some muslce relaxtion, we are treated so well here! We are now just taking it day to day but hope to head out to the village maybe tomorrow minus the trailer. We thank you all for the out pouring of love and get well wishes and prayer we are so encouraged by you all! Please also pray that we would be able to fix the trailer and that finances would be met so that the rest of the planned summer outreachs would not be affected. Although at this time its a tough thing to swallow how demolished our ministry vechicles are we know 100% that God had his hand protecting us and he will bring this to his glory, the first police on scene have already invited joska and sandi over for a visit!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Both Chris and I are glad to hear that you are not seriously injured. We are praying for both of you and thank God for protecting you from greater harm.

Anonymous said...

As soon as Mark & I saw the accident pictures...all we wanted to know what that you're OK! Prasie the Lord, you both walked away from it!! We're praying for you both! -Kim

Baker said...

We are so thrilled that God's angels were surrounding you. I hope you heal up quickly. You are definately in our prayers.

Rachel said...

Wow you guys....what a miracle! So glad you are OKAY!

Anonymous said...

Praiseallulia for your relative good health! Someone needs to put together a missionary biography on that LandRover; did you know any of its previous life (complete wi problems) in service for Albania & Kosovo?