Carrie and I are in Haiti helping with the relief effort. If you’re on our mailing list you’ve gotten a couple updates explaining how we ended up leaving for Haiti and I want to try to not repeat too much of that, but it’s been quite a trip. We left our home at 5 am Friday morning and headed out with a convoy of three vehicles loaded with supplies. God directed our steps and gave us incredible favor as we were able to join a larger convoy of vehicles at the border and enter into Haiti in record time and without trouble. In Port-au-Prince we were able to connect with both AG missionary families here along with the Dominican missionary that is serving here and provide them with the supplies we brought. We were also able to deliver a large amount of medical supplies to a clinic that is functioning with Convoy of Hope. The next day we were able to set up a local LACC school as a distribution point and get them 10,000 meals for those in need.

The devastation is unreal, you see that on the T.V. but the story that may not be getting through is the story of hope. There IS life in Haiti. People are helping each other in sacrificial ways and there are people who have already turned from a spirit of fear to an attitude of “we will overcome.” Sunday morning churches were filled and hymns hung in the air, and in the streets kids are asking to have their photo taken and still burst into laughter when you show them their photo.

It will take an immense amount of money and months if not years to rebuild Port-au-Prince, but it would seem that Christians here are bouncing back quickly. One woman walked by us on her way to church and said in english, “We gots ta go to church, we may have lost everything, but we still gots church, we gots ta go to church!”