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

I signed up with my church and with Food For The Poor to go to Haiti as part of a relief team. Now I wait for the Lord to make the way straight. I will not limit the amount of time I am willing to go. If they need me for a day, a week, or a month, I will go. I trust the Lord to provide for me and my family. He is in control. He searches the earth for hearts who are loyal to Him. 2 Chronicles 16:9

Please continue to pray for the folks in Haiti. Pray about how you can get involved yourself. They need us. They need us to be the hands and feet of Jesus Christ! We are his ambassadors! We are His reflection!

Hi Friends!

I want to praise God as He has protected many of our friends in Haiti. He has delivered the orphans and their caretakers in Port au Prince. Only one injury that I know of. My friend Bebytho left Haiti this past Friday to begin school in Dominican Republic and is fine! We are still waiting to hear from our friend Robenson. Pray for him to be found please. I am also waiting to hear if my boy Olsen is ok through Compassion International. God is good and He is in control of the situation.

The other reason for this post  is to ask you to pray for me because I am seriously praying about how I can go to Haiti and be involved in the relief efforts. I recently heard that American Airlines is flying medical personnel into Haiti free of charge. I can’t go this weekend because I have work commitments for 4 days. After this weekend, I will do my best to free up my weekends so maybe I can go to offer the little help I can. I know if this is the Lord’s will, He will make a way. I believe the relief efforts are being coordinated extremely efficiently and I could probably just show up and say where do you need me? I would be available from Friday afternoon until Sunday night.

Please pray for wisdom, direction, guidance, resources, connections. I have never felt such a strong urgency to go, even for a little bit, to pray for people, comfort them, hold them, give them a drink. If any of you knows anyone I can contact who might be able to use me, please reply. Thanks for all your support!

His… Michelle

P.S. I believe it may be time to fast!

Dear God,

How we praise you! We worship You and adore You! Oh God hear our prayers today for our friends, family, and loved ones in Haiti. Please have mercy on them Lord! Rescue them with Your mighty power! Pull them from the rubble that is trapping them! Send the best help You have available Lord! Let the nations pour out an offering of the largest magnitude. Convict us to step up and reach out to our brothers and sisters Lord! These are Your children, your creation! Help the ones who blame You realize this is not wrath. This is because we have all sinned and fallen short. You are a God of mercy and justice and have given us the reign of this Your world. Let us step up and reach out wth more mercy and love than ever before. Let us call on Your strong Name Jesus! Save us!!! Oh save us from this huge tragedy!!! Perform miracles Lord! Do amazing and wonderous things so the nations will know there is a God in heaven! Please Lord, we’re crying to You for mercy. Save Your children in Haiti! Thank You for hearing and answering our prayers! To You be all glory, honor and praise! In Jesus’ Name…

Amen!

His… Michelle

I thank God, because he can now, show me clearly which way I should walk in.

I have been borned in a Christian family; the father of my mother (my grand father) is 94 years old is still alive. He was a pastor.

My parents raised me in the church since I was very little boy, I used to hear message every time I go to church. I used to go very often, but I did not really able to imagine why am I go to church every time?

It did not take me a lot time so little I have became a drummer in the church which I have raised.

I was about 10 years old, I can play very well the drum and the church consider me like the principal person to play the drum, about 3 years later I am able to play the bass guitar, in one year about I am able to play the accompaniment guitar I am growing in the church nice song only interest me I like play nice music but I did not care about the words in songs.

Some time when there is revivals some messages used to touch my heart very deep and I think in my self, people know me, I have been raised in church and why that now I am going to accept Jesus Christ( that was what I thought).

I don’t go any where even if that disturb me for many days but I resist with that.

Finally when I was 19 years old, I was in Rhetho I had a year left to finish with my classic studies. I had so many dreams about what I would like to study, how will I get into University? So worry about my future because I realized my parents could not help me with the University because they really can’t do that.

But some thing I realized, God always provide for me in all my needing time since 2005 to 2008 a friend name Douglas and Haiti’s Hope personally Dr.Helene paid the school fees for me and several of my little brothers he helped us in different thing.

Those things urged me to think. Following what those people are doing such great and good thing for my family because we are different nationality, we are speaking different language and I though we where totally different but through that God help me understand him, through those friends.

I am very glad now, God gives me the opportunity to know how wonderful he is, to understand how vast his love for me is? And I realize also that he is a faithful God.

That is why today I live without fear of tomorrow, because if a day I did not used to think with him and he used to think with me every day , Now, I know so many things about his kingdom and he let me know that he is by my side to take care of me and my family.

Dear Sister, this is just an essay, my English is not enough to translate exactly my ideas but I hope you understand the main ideas. If you do not understand some thing you can let me know or if you see some thing that need to correct you can do that for your brother. I speak more French than English and I might try to find software that can help me translate from French to English.

Speak and write English like you a day is a dream sister .And if I find the opportunity to be in the States I will try to have some English class so that I might be better in English. I also would like to be an interpreter.

(DAY SEVEN)

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.

We arrived in Carinage and set the clinic up once again. The people of the village seemed more uneasy this day. They seemed more tense, as if they knew this was their last chance to receive anything from us.

We prayed together and then started seeing patients. The day went pretty smoothly until the very end. Between the twon of us, Helene and I saw about 50 people. When it was time to pack up and go home, we started handing out what little was left. The people got more and more restless. One young man became loud and unruly, demanding things we didn’t have to give. We quickly had the Haitian men with us take him off to the side to calm him down before he insited a riot. I was quite anxious to be finished on on my way. The restlessness of the town was getting unnerving.

We managed to finish up and hand out all that was left in a fairly peaceful manner. We packed up and climbed aboard the big truck and headed back to Mol. I was relieved to say goodbye to Carinage.

When we got back to Mol, we made our way to the church to see the finished roof. 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.

That evening, we went to the school to watch the GodMan film and to perform a drama. Helene gave her testimony to the kids. They very much appreciated her honesty.

We went back to Janet’s house and settled down for the night. The clock on the wall said it was 1.

(END DAY SEVEN)

( DAY SIX )
Waking up in Mol was similar to Creve. The roosters were just as abundant. The 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.

As the sun was rising, we met for devotions. Afterward we had breakfast. After breakfast we got the drugs ready for the clinic that day. We prepackaged all the medicines we had so we would be able to distribute them more quickly and effectively. We ended up with hundreds of bags of medicines.

At 9am, we loaded the truck with everything for the clinic. We held the clinic about a mile outside of town, in a village called Carinage . This time I saw patients because we didn’t have any other medical people. This was the first time in 15 years I assessed a patient in this manner.

The people of Carinage were in a much more desperate state than those in Creve. 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.

We spent about 6 hours in Carinage before we packed up for the day. As we were leaving, we passed out what little food and water we had left and said goodbye. We went back to Janet’s and relaxed until dinner time. The clock on the wall read 1 o’clock.

Before dinner, we walked around the town. There is a marching band in Mol. They 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.

After dinner, we sat around talking for a bit more before heading to bed. It was the best Thanksgiving I ever had!

( END DAY SIX )