Haiti: A Rough Day

Hey Friends,

I really think I could tangibly feel your prayers today so thank you for them. Honestly your prayers are so huge and mean so much to me and truly are a huge part in breaking through some tough spiritual things. Let me fill you in on today, there are many stories but I will just pick one or two because it is late and I need to head to bed.

We were woken up this morning to earthquake tremors. Supposedly it was rating at a 5.9 at the actual location but was much less up here in St. Marc. It only lasted a few seconds, but being my first earthquake experience, it was pretty scary and disorienting. It helped me have even more of a heart for the victims because it was a small, small taste of what they experienced. When the ground shook here, the victims that are receiving medical help here at the base started screaming and trying to run. Most of them have severe enough injuries that they shouldn't even be sitting yet alone running. They all are experiencing such fear and trauma that really needs to be lifted up in prayer so that they can receive emotional healing as well.

Come mid-afternoon I was feeling pretty sick, dizzy and nauseous, and so I forced myself to take a break and go lay down for a few hours. I opened up my Bible and was reading through some chapters in late Isaiah and was reading some awesome stuff about Israel and how God was calling His people back to Him. Of course my heart loves chapter 61, because it is what Project Sixty-One is based off of, but it talks about replacing beauty for ashes and gladness instead of mourning. Verse three ends with saying that the people will be called oaks of righteousness planted by the Lord for His splendor. The whole time I was thinking how beautiful it is that God is calling these Haitian people back to their first love, He wants them to be a people planted for the Lord's splendor. Let's keep praying for redemption and restoration in this time of incredible brokenness for this Nation. Jesus we invite you even now to come and do a supernatural work in this land.

By the late afternoon I was feeling much better and headed out to the make-shift clinic again to help out. We had spent the morning entering each person into a computer database and creating badges so that we can give the data to the Haitian government. After this we began helping the victims pack their things so that we could move them to a hospital. So we packed them into trucks and buses and took them about 70 miles to this place that was rather treacherous. Upon arriving we were told that the victims couldn't stay there, so we had to bring them all the way back to the base, driving along the bumpy roads, causing them more pain. It was sad and painful to watch, they have already suffered so much. We got back to the base and set up everyone again on their mats and tended to the new wounds caused by the journey.

So all in all it was a long and hard day. Tomorrow we are expecting about 300 more people to show up here from Port au Prince that we will badge and try and find shelter for. Please keep praying for us, the base, and the Haitians. We need strength, these people need strength, and the base here needs strength. Tomorrow is our last full day here and we want to be able to serve at full capacity.

Until tomorrow God Bless,
Jacque