Dear God,
Thank You for saving the people I know in Port au Prince! Thank You for protecting them! You are awesome! Thank You for sending the armies of the nations to help the people of Haiti! You are amazing! You are good all the time! I love You! Worship You! Praise You! Adore You! Exalt You! Honor You! Magnify You! Glorify You! Oh but the need is so great to help our family in Haiti! And You have provided like never before in convicting us to step up and be light in a dark world! Despite our money problems here in the USA, people have poured out money like never before! What an awesome thing to witness when for so long all we hear is how You should be taken out of our nation! But You stepped in! You allowed that earthquake so we could step up! Not just sit here being hearers only, but being doers for Your glory so the nations would know You are the LORD!!! You are being praised and glorified like I haven’t seen in a long time, if ever! We, your creation, have for once caught the ball and are carrying it! All thanks and glory to You! Thank You for the earthquake! Thank You for shaking us out of our self-centered coma! Thank You for giving so many millions of people the honest, heartfelt desire to reach out in love and compassion and mercy to our family in Haiti! May You be glorified more than ever before! Continue to do mighty things for Haiti, Lord! When the dust settle, keep the world focused on Haiti that they me be finally saved, have new hope, new resources, a new beginning! Raise them up out of the ashes, debris, rubble, dust! Resurrect them the way you raise individuals from the dead. The world thinks Haiti is dead. Raise them from the dead because You are the LORD! You are able to do things beyond our wildest imaginations! Let this be a miracle of worldwide proportions that people will witness and know there is a God in heaven who loves this messed up, broken world. Who takes our eyes off ourselves and fixes them on their neighbors. You have stopped us from wallowing in man’s inhumanity to man and redirected us to contemplating man’s humanity to man! Thank You for the earthquake! It has brought us together as Your creation! Oh if only it would last! But ours is a broken world, filled with sinners, wanting do things our way, in our time. Thank You for being patient and longsuffering, for putting up with us in all our rebellion. You are awesome and greatly to be praised! I sit here now and wait for You to make the way straight for me to go to Haiti to be Your hands and feet. I will go when You say I should go. I will have no fear because You are with me. This was not part of my plan but I’m okay with that because Your plans are always far better than any I can come up with. This is not even a detour because I know You are preparing me for great things in the years to come for Your glory! Help me be patient. Help me be obedient. I don’t want to be Jonah, running from You. I want to be Michelle, running toward You always! Trusting in You, not me! I love You!!!
Yours… Michelle
We woke up bright and early for our last day in Mol. We had one more opportunity to have a clinic in Carinage. We ate breakfast and set out. The men went to finish putting the roof on Pastor Wilno’s church.
On the way, I witnessed a rooster chasing a crab down the street. It was the funniest thing! Who knew rooster could run so fast? It was beautiful! Pastor Wilno was beeming from ear to ear. He had such a look of pride and happiness on his face because he had a whole church! The children by the church followed us around to get their photos taken.
After we finished seeing the church, we walked to Bebytho’s house to meet his family. His mom and dad are lovely people. We also met his brothers. We were so blessed to meet them.
difference was the scenery. I was able to walk out onto the terrace and watch the sunrise! Oh how beautiful. I could see the shadows of the men heading out to fish for the day, some singing songs as they went.
of medicines.
This village was terribly poor, with people only eating every couple of days. We set up in a tiny one room house. Between Helene and I, we saw about 50 people that first day. Paul tried to entertain the kids with balloons, but was soon mobbed by the crowd of children. We gave out as many things as we had, toothbrushes, combs, bandaids. The people wanted stuff, anything we had. There was such desperation in the air. I was very glad we had able Haitian men with us to control the crowd. Carinage is at the heart of voodoo worship in this area, however, Ron was able to lead several people to the Lord. God is faithful to save!
Despite their malnutrition, the people of Carinage are in fairly good health. The complaints were headache, heartburn, and overall aches and pains. We sent one man to another clinic for further treatment for a heart condition. There was no high blood pressure as seen in Creve, probably because the local diet consists of fish more than anything.
were practicing and we went to watch them. Helene made the mistake of taking a photo without asking permission and the conductor of the band got somewhat angry. She apologized and deleted the photo. This was the first time we encountered any sort of negative reaction to our presence. Helene explained that some people see us taking photos and think we are just trying to exploit them, their circumstances.
We had Thanksgiving together in Haiti. Janet told us how she explained to the people in Mol how we had come to spend Thanksgiving with them, how Thanksgiving is a very important American holiday, but we considered the hatian people to be more important. She prepared for us a tradtional Thanksgiving meal with all the trimmings. It was wonderful! We even had part of our meal by lantern because the generator wasn’t quite working.