we had two sets of twins born in maternity last night. all four babies are doing okay this morning. one set are pretty little weighing in just over three pounds 
new life is in many ways like gardening, it means there is hope for tomorrow!
for the bronze altar that was before the Lord was too small to hold the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat of the peace offerings.
thanks so much for the ways that so many people are working and trying to help get aid to haiti.
it was two weeks ago that the earth shook and i feel like things here in this country and possibly in many other countries have changed, perhaps forever. in the last two weeks i have seen many broken bodies and hurting souls.
i feel like Christ’s response to a situation like this would be to offer healing, comfort and peace. that has been my heart’s desire. before the earthquake, haiti was a broken and hurting country. women were having to try to provide for their children. father’s waiting to hear their babies cry after they were born knowing what a risk their wives were going through during pregnancy, people with chronic diseases not being treated, a broken political system. the story goes on and on.
this earthquake has taken an already broken system and demolished it. the future of this place though is bright. we as the church can rise and do the things of Christ. bring healing, comfort and peace. exactly what that will look like as earthquake relief is yet to be determined.
i know that today many came through our gates and found compassionate caring treatment for their illnesses. a woman with dangerously high blood pressure who is pregnant was treated and cared for. she is not your typical victim you may see who needs surgery, but she has experienced extreme trauma from having been in port-au-prince. she is probably wondering if there will be a tomorrow. wondering where to look, how to find hope for a future.
i desire for our response at NWHCM to reflect a desire to help rebuild lives and broken systems. families, churches, medical systems, communities. these are things that we were already focusing on in our programs and these will just become more important.
thanks for your prayers and support over the last couple weeks. the upcoming weeks i think will also be just as challenging.
the Lord will fight for you: you need only to be still
perhaps the Lord will work for us, for the Lord is not restrained to save by many or by few. I sam. 14:6b
thanks to so many of you over the last few days. thanks for your prayers and i ask for your continued prayers.
even though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, your perfect love is casting out fear. for the victims and those who are standing to fight
i am so glad to be home. we arrived safely in st. louis. thanks for your prayers.
if you are looking for what type of things we will need over the next few months as we deal with this emergency, please check my side noted lists. these are things that we have always needed and we came here to port-au-prince with alot of our supplies and will need to replace those and also have more to deal with the upcoming months.
i want to give you guys all an update from what we are trying to do here at mission of hope where our team from northwest came today. the game plan we are working with is trying to get people who are willing to come and organizing medical teams that could come in over the next month. travel at this time is completely impossible in and out of the country. but i am going to ask those that would be willing to come, to still be willing to come and help when the need is going to continue to be great which will be in a few weeks. we want to organize teams to work with our Haiti One partners who are already here on the ground.
this morning some of the supplies we brought here were loaded up with a team and they were going to attempt to go assess where we could continue to get supplies to aid. our haitian physician who came to help has left and is taking some supplies to the area where he had lived where he has a physician friend and nurses just with no supplies.
we are planning at this time to attempt to do more of an outlying clinic over the next few days. the faces and stories of what is going on in port-au-prince sound horrible.
it is hard to believe that there are aid planes circling overhead and not able to land wasting fuel and one of our biggest problems here is that we don’t have fuel on the ground. please try to remember that when all the media hype of this whole thing is over, this is going to be a completely devastated country. so it is imperative that a game plan is developed about how to help and how to continue to help in this country where things are not going to get better for a long time.
this morning the news out of haiti is not good. you probably are seeing more of it than i am seeing here in haiti. we are really praying as a mission and wondering what we can do or how we can help. we have medical supplies and medical people and had one mission contact us to possibly come help them. we are really wanting as a mission to be a help in this serious catastrophe.
