Flood debris
Our hope is that all of you are doing well as individuals, family and as a Church. We thank all of you for your thoughtful e-mails. They do wonders. They are a great source of encouragement to keep going. We dare not get discouraged. We must face the situation head on. We dare not say, like many people, there is no end or no solution to this. Yet we feel the hits and the heat. We wonder a lot of time too like anyone else. But we know we cannot move the mountain, so it is a waste of time to keep looking at it. So we are fixing our eyes on the on “the mountain mover”. We beg for your prayers.
I said in a previous e-mail– maybe it was yesterday– that bridges have collapsed. The situation is very chaotic. We used to complain that it takes 4 hours to drive 85 miles from Gonaives to Port-au-Prince. Now it takes 10 hours. Micah left Gonaives around 4 this morning to go to Port-au-Prince. It was 2 PM when I last called him and he had yet to arrive at his final destination. Imagine! Pray so that urgent measures can be taken to solve this critical problem.
New lake created by hurricane
After leaving the computer I am going to visit several families whose homes have been destroyed or damaged. There are a lot of them. We will continue with those visits tomorrow and possibly all the way to this weekend.
We are still waiting for anti-tetanous serum to help those who were terribly cut by barbwire, tin, boards and nails in the water. Some of the cases are scary. Again, please pray for those people. Some are members of Living Water. Others are just people who came to my wife for help or those I just met while visiting the sites.
We have sunshine. Downtown still has a lot of water and there are many huge holes that are a threat to people’s lives. Pray.
Thanks for everything. I need your prayer for strength and wisdom.
Love you all,
Salonique Adolphe