THOSE 3 FINGERS POINTING RIGHT BACK AT Y-O-U!!! RELIGIOUS FAMILY SURVIVES BEING LOST AT SEA ...LOST U.S FAMILY (724 hits)
LEFT U.S. CLAIMING TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT INTERERENCE IN WORSHIP'S PRAYERS WERE ANSWERED WHEN THEY WERE FLOWN BACK TO U.S. BY A GOVERNMENT AGENCY!!!SO GLAD TO BE BACK IN AMERIA WITH RELIGIONS ACCEPTING GAYS, ABORTION AND STATE RUN CHURCHES...NOW DO TELL!!!LOL!!!(SMILE)...
JUS ONE MORE EXAMPLE OF WANTING TO GET TO HEAVEN BUT NOW WILLING TO DIE TO GET THERE SO NOW THE AMERICA GOVERNMENT MUST GIVE THIS FAMILY FOOD, AND SHELTER...LIKE IN FOOD STAMPS AND PUBIC HOUSINGS?!? OH WELL...THSI IS AMERICA AND AMERICAN CONSERVATIVES CAN AS ALWAYS REMAIN IN DENIAL IT IS THE PRESIDENT'S FAULT NOT THEIR OWN FAULT!!! (N...U...P!!!)
A northern Arizona family has survived being lost at sea for weeks after an ill-fated attempt to leave the U.S. over what they consider government interference in religion.
Hannah Gastonguay and her family were to fly back home Sunday. She and her husband took their two small children and her father-in-law and set sail from San Diego for the tiny island nation of Kiribati in May.
Weeks into their journey, the Gastonguays hit a series of storms that damaged their small boat, leaving them adrift for weeks, unable to make progress. They were eventually picked up by a Venezuelan fishing vessel, transferred to a Japanese cargo ship and taken to Chile.
Their flights home were arranged by U.S. Embassy officials, Gastonguay said. The U.S. State Department declined to comment on Sunday.
The months-long journey has been “pretty exciting” and “little scary at certain points,” Gastonguay told The Associated Press by telephone.
The 26-year-old mother said they wanted to go to Kiribati because “we didn’t want to go anywhere big.” She said they understood the island to be “one of the least developed countries in the world.”
Kiribati is a group of islands just off the equator and the international date line about halfway between Hawaii and Australia. The total population is just over 100,000 people of primarily Micronesian descent.
Hannah Gastonguay said her family was fed up with government control in the U.S. As Christians they don’t believe in “abortion, homos*xuality, in the state-controlled church,” she said.
U.S. “churches aren’t their own,” Gastonguay said, suggesting that government regulation interfered with religious independence.
Among other differences, she said they had a problem with being “forced to pay these taxes that pay for abortions we don’t agree with.” While federal law bars public funding for abortion, state attempts to block Medicaid funding for organizations that provide the procedure have met with legal hurdles. Opponents say that funding allows those groups to perform abortions.
The Gastonguays weren’t members of any church, and Hannah Gastonguay said their faith came from reading the Bible and through prayer.
“The Bible is pretty clear,” she said.
The family moved in November from Ash Fork, Ariz., to San Diego, where they lived on their boat as they prepared to set sail. She said she gave birth to the couple’s 8-month-old girl on the boat, which was docked in a slip at the time.
In May, Hannah, her 30-year-old husband Sean, his father Mike, and the couple’s daughters, 3-year-old Ardith and baby Rahab set off. They wouldn’t touch land again for 91 days, she said.
She said at first, “We were cruising.”
But within a couple of weeks “when we came out there, storm, storm, storm.”
The boat had taken a beating, and they decided to set course for the Marquesas Islands. Instead, they found themselves in a “twilight zone,” taking more and more damage, leaving them unable to make progress.
They could have used a sail called a genoa, she said, but they risked snapping the mast and losing their radio and ability to communicate.
They had been on the ocean for about two months and were low on supplies. They were out of food and were down to “some juice and some honey.” She said they were able to catch fish, but they didn’t see any boats.
Still, we “didn’t feel like we were going to die or anything. We believed God would see us through,” she said.
At one point a fishing ship came into contact with them but left without providing assistance.
Eventually, their boat was spotted by a helicopter that had taken off from a nearby Venezuelan fishing vessel, which ended up saving them.
No word yet on when they are planning their next trip.
Thursday, August 15th 2013 at 4:51AM
Steve Williams
THIS ARTICLE IS IN MY LOCAL NEWS PAPER..."RELIGIOUS FAMILY SURVIVES BEING LOST AT SEA"...PHONEIX (AP) ...
EDUCATE!!!EDUCATE!!!EDUCATE!!! (S-M-I-L-E)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
READIN TIS ARTICLE HAD ME THINKING ABOUT SOME OF THE PRAYERS I SEE ON THE SITE...PRAYERS OF SOME WHO HAVE SO OVER LOOKED SATAN INTERFERED IN SOME OF TH E PRAYERS OF JESUS DURING THOSE 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS ...AND YET THEY TRY TO PERTEND SATAN IS NOT IN THEIR PRAYERS!!! (NUP!!!)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
THEY HAD BETTER PRAY THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO PAY FOR BEING RESQUED SINCE PENNIES DON'T REALLY RAIN FROM HEAVEN...UBT SINCE IT IS NOT THEM PAYONG TAXES FOR SOMETHING THEY DON'T LIKE I GUESS IT IS JUST FINE FOR TOTAL STRANGERS TO PAY THE BILL FOR THEM...OH WELL...WHAT WOUOLD THEY CALL TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OTHERS IF THIS IS NOT DOING IT?...THAT NEW BRON BABY NEEDS TO BE TAKEN AWAR FOR ITS OWN PROTECTION ALONG WITH TH EOTHER CHILDREN WITH THESE KINDS OF MINDSETS. IT SEEM THEY DIDN'T EVEN HAVE ANY SISCABLE SHORT TERM PLANS IF THEY HAD REACHED THEIR DISTINATION ULSISH THEY EXPECT TO KNOW TH ELANGUAGE AND DO WHAT CREAT A NEW RELIGION FOR THESE 'WILD PEOPLE THEY EXPECT TO MAYBE 'DISCOVER' RUNNING AROUND WITH NO CLOTHS ON...I AM WILLING TO BET THIS IS WHAT THEY BEKIEVE THEY WERE GOING TO...THESE LITTLE KNOW COUNTRYS ARE UNKNOWN BECAUSE THEY ARE SAVE AS PLAY GROUNDS FOR TH EFILFTY RICH, BEAUTIFUL RICH AS PRIVATE PLAY GROUNDS...DUMB ASS' TAKE THOSE CHILDREN OF THEIRS.(SMILE)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
