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Just a note to keep the folks in Haiti in your prayers after the earthquake.
A family friend of ours was there with a church mission group when the earthquake happened. They're all okay; not sure when or how they're coming back to the states. Our friend is a professional firefighter who, among other things, helped out in the days immediately following the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon and is well trained in dealing with disaster issues like this. Gives mission work a whole new meaning. Still, we are concerned for everyone's safety and my prayers are also with the families of those hurt or killed as a result of the earthquake.
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I'll never forget working on a Cruise ship stopping every week in Labadie, which is a tiny corner of Haiti. Although I was looking forward to a day of scuba diving and hitting the grill buffet for the passengers, I looked across the harbor at the beaten up looking town there. Then I saw a Barbed wire fence at the end of the perimiter and armed guards on the other side. A sign in French warned the villagers to stay behind the fence or they would be shot.
Imagine having a hungry family, no job or food, smelling grilled meat all day just 20 yards away and not being able to get even a leftover. The company always dumped the leftover Burgers, Ribs, Steak, ect into the bay instead of share it with the people who lived there.
I took the first tender back to the ship and never got off there again. Those people have known the true meaning of suffering for years. On a positive note, I really admired the speech the President Obama gave today and the commitment the USA is making to assist them. It's also too bad that this relief effort could not be organized for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
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Man, I am reminded of the verse that speaks of earthquakes becoming greater as the end approaches. I have been reading reports that there were thousands that were killed during this birth pang.
I honestly don't know where the U.S. can get the money from. We have been bankrupt for several years. The one thing we can do is give of ourselves. One ray of light that comes as I know of several churches in town that have people heading down there just as they did in Katrina to the epicenter of where it all happened to help put the pieces back together again. That goes a lot further than money any day. Where did the money go in Katrina?
Also, I was speaking with a missionary friend down there who is part of a team that built an orphanage there, because of other reasons that would further break your heart, where their concern now is not so much from aftershocks as much as it is from looters. There will be a time where the people will turn on these young children and take every crumb from them in order to survive.
The story you mentioned, Edward, about the food describes exactly the depth of the depravity man's heart can plunge to. While people are starving others are disposing of life sustaining food with no conscience whatsoever. I think in these calamities you see both sides of the spirit of mankind. You see the love and compassion that has been given to us by our Creator. And you see the wicked and evil as provided to us by the prince of the air.
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A good friend of my parents (I know his son somewhat from my high-school days) is probably deceased in Haiti as the school he has helped build on 32 separate short-term mission trips collapsed on him and many others in Port-au-Prince.
The Hatian director of the school happened to step out onto a patio just as the quake was hitting the first time. He survived. His wife and an unknown number of other people did not, including our family friend.
Colin Powell was being interviewed this AM about the entire Hatian situation that has been exacerbated with this most recent large-scale tragedy. I only caught a couple minutes of it as I had to leave. From what I heard - preach it Colin.
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I have been closely associated with a Haiti mission for the last 20+ years. I was there in 1990 and came back totally depressed. I've often said that all church folk should spend a week or two there. It does change one's outlook.
The mission that I am connected with is outside Jacmel on the Caribbean. It is about 25 miles as the crow flies over the mountains, which is 50 miles by road. The word that we got was that the people there were all okay, but that the church/school building was heavily damaged. Jacmel itself, has some buildings leveled and there is no power or water.
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