I am overwhelmed watching the news and seeing the pictures coming out of Haiti. Hanna and Ike have wreaked havoc and devastated the country. It is hard to imagine that the third hungriest country in the world and the poorest in the western hemisphere could get any worse... but it has. What little the Haitians had has been taken away by flooding. They are now surrounded by water contaminated with animal and human waste as well as those killed by the storms. Water has always been hard to come by, well I should say clean, safe water has been hard to come by but now they are literally being flooded with disease and clean water must come in bottles from the UN leaving people with very little options. In Hinche, where Pastor Lavaud is, they lost 100 water purifiers in the floods! I can only think of Katrina and how we are the richest country in the world and we have taken years to recover. Please pray for God to dry up the land and to use the developed countries to bring aid to a country overwhelmed by heartache.
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Ugh...my heart just sank! Praying with you...
We've been praying for the children and families and people of Haiti who don't have the "things" we have, but can have hope in Jesus. We will join with you in praying that God will move to help restore that which has been lost.
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