Good News and Bad News
Greetings my dear brothers and sisters,
I want to thank all of you who were praying for us while we were undertaking the scary task of looking for people, assessing the situation and distributing a little water and crackers to the people in Port-au-Prince.
First praise be to God because we found my sister Bea in a bus headed to Gonaives while we were leaving L’Estere. We stopped all the buses we met who were headed to Gonaives. We were fortunate to find her in the third one we met. Thanks to all of you who prayed. She is safe with no visible injuries. We paid her bus fare and she continued on her way to Gonaives. We continued our way to Port-au-Prince.
We were able to locate all the people we were looking for except two. The two we couldn’t find were in class at their college when the earthquake hit and they are among the missing.
I have seen some terrible situations and circumstances in my life. I can remember how things were when Baby Doc (Jean Claude Duvalier) left the country. I remember a minor earthquake that we had in 1994. I remember Hurricane Jeanne in 2004 and most recently Hurricanes Hanna and Ike in 2008. But if you combine all those terrible events together it would still be far from being as bad as the situation Port-au-Prince, and thus Haiti is in today.
There are dead bodies are all over. Port-au-Prince is an open grave yard. All the dead are laid on the ground in the streets. The fortunate ones are covered with a white sheet and the rest who knows? It may be conservative to talk about 100,000 deaths. There are destroyed vehicles and many, many houses are destroyed. It is heart wrenching.
The injured face a critical situation as there is no hospital to take care of them. In some instances there is no medicine. I took a bag full of medical supplies that my wife Gine gave me. We gave them to the Red Cross. They were very happy to receive them and we were very happy to give it to them.
There are 2 million people here who need counseling, comfort and encouragement. I wish I could have here a thousand people like my sister Regina Green to help them out. Getting healing for the physical pain is one thing, but get healing from the emotional pain, the trauma will take some time. Please pray for these people.
On our way to Port-au-Prince we bought a good amount water and crackers to distribute. The distribution went smoothly in spite of some fear we had about people fighting over the items. Manno and Fevrier came up with the bright idea of just taking them to the tents and giving each person one pack share. It went smoothly. We praise God for that.
I was devastated when we saw Wall International Guest House. The first building is completely gone and they lost some dear souls. Please pray for Veniel and his wife and his co workers as they are trying to help many in this situation.
On our way back, my car broke down right before we entered what used to be called Cabaret. Manno said there is nothing we could do for it without more tools and time. We had to leave it at the compound of the soldiers of Minustah (UN) who promised they would watch it. We then boarded a tap tap (public bus). We had to ride on the roof of the bus because there was no room inside. My friends in spite of the wind we made it home safely. We praise God for that and we thank you for praying for us.
When I arrived home I heard two very bad pieces of news. Sister Robinson and her daughter, her only child, died in Port-au-Prince as a result of the earthquake. This hits the Living Water family very hard. The second bad news item is that one of our students at the high school was in Port-au-Prince during the earthquake and a wall fell on her. She is still alive, but they say she will not be able to survive because her injuries are too severe. Pray for those two families.
In Christ,
Salonique Adolphe
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