scottborg Jan 20, 2010 7:00 PM

Thursday Afternoon DR/Haiti Update

1:30pm Eastern Time January 21st: Marcia and Sam and crew are in Jimani (border town DR/Haiti). All are safe and healthy. This morning they arrive...

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1:30pm Eastern Time January 21st:

Marcia and Sam and crew are in Jimani (border town DR/Haiti). All are safe and healthy.

This morning they arrived in Jimani not knowing what to expect. Last week our DR staff member Miguel Shaul has made contact with a pastor in Port-au-Prince who needed medical supplies and food. Since then we've been unable to contact him due to communication lines being down. They prayed. The team met up with Miguel in Jimani and were praying and discussing options when Miguel jumped from the car saying, "There is the pastor!"

The pastor was at a gas station, dropping off a wounded person, and headed back to Haiti. Marcia and Sam and team were able to immediately hand over ALL the supplies they had gathered in Gainesville - $2200 worth – and put it in the back of the pastor's truck. The plan is tomorrow the pastor will return and the team will meet him with a load of food stuffs they can buy on the DR side.

They say the hospital is full, but the streets are "normal." There are lots of aid workers there. They have been talking with two young mothers with young children who were from Port-au-Prince, had fled after the earthquake and were just sitting exhausted on the sidewalk. They seemed traumatized – every time a car went by they felt as if another earthquake was coming.

Depending on how things go they may go into a small town near another border that has gone from its normal population of 3000 to more than 20,000 – people are leaving Port-au-Prince in drives going wherever they can for help.

Please keep praying as they follow the Lord's leading.

 

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