Family Rescued In Pacific After Sailing 'Where God Led Us'

Family Rescued In Pacific After Sailing 'Where God Led Us'
by Scott Neuman
NPR News

A leap of faith that sent an Arizona family bound for the South Pacific in a sailboat has returned them in an airplane after a harrowing ordeal at sea that saw them adrift and nearly out of food in one of the remotest stretches of ocean on the planet.

Hannah Gastonguay, 26, and her husband, Sean, 30, were fed up with abortion, homosexuality, taxes and the "state-controlled church" and so "decided to take a leap of faith and see where God led us," she . With them were Sean's father and the couple's two daughters, one 3 years old and the other an infant.

A few weeks into their ultimately 91 days at sea, the Gastonguays encountered "squall after squall after squall" that damaged their boat. Originally on a heading for the archipelago nation of Kiribati near the international dateline, they changed course to the Marquesas Islands, but were unable to reach them either.

Along the way, they apparently suffered damage to their mast and, unable to set a foresail, made little westward progress.

They were down to "some juice and some honey" and whatever fish they could catch when a passing Canadian cargo ship tried to help out with supplies. But when it came alongside, it did even more damage to the tiny sailboat.

Eventually, the family was picked up by a Venezuelan fishing vessel.

"The captain said, 'Do you know where you're at? You're in the middle of nowhere,' " Hannah Gastonguay told the AP.

From there, the five were transferred to a Japanese cargo ship and, after three weeks, dropped off in Chile.

Gastonguay told the AP that she never thought the family was going to die: "We believed God would see us through."

In Chile, police prefect Jose Luis Lopez told the newspaper Las Ultimas Noticias:

"They were looking for a kind of adventure; they wanted to live on a Polynesian island but they didn't have sufficient expertise to navigate adequately," he said.

I think u just like posting stories about ignorant religious ppl

Bryant wrote:Family Rescued In Pacific After Sailing 'Where God Led Us'
by Scott Neuman
NPR News

A leap of faith that sent an Arizona family bound for the South Pacific in a sailboat has returned them in an airplane after a harrowing ordeal at sea that saw them adrift and nearly out of food in one of the remotest stretches of ocean on the planet.

Hannah Gastonguay, 26, and her husband, Sean, 30, were fed up with abortion, homosexuality, taxes and the "state-controlled church" and so "decided to take a leap of faith and see where God led us," she . With them were Sean's father and the couple's two daughters, one 3 years old and the other an infant. 

"You shall not put the LORD your God to the test, as you tested Him at Massah. Deut 6:16
 
Guess they forgot that scripture.
 
But I do understand their despair at this nation's depravity.  If ya wanna leave though, leave.  But don't put God to the test like that.

Plus they forgot that the last time a bunch of ppl  "decided to take a leap of faith and see where God led us", he led them around the desert for 40 years, and then stopped them in the one bit that didn't have any oil.......

Thought you were going to refer to this:

Though they didn't say much about it, the fact that these people had tons of clothes, a radio that never broke, medicine, running water the ability to never grow tired of coconut, and all the comforts of home...plus no fights over the girls...you know God had to be behind that.