Haiti

The more news comes out, the worse the effects sound. This is a place totally unprepared for such an event where people barely make it day to day as it is. Haiti has incredible poverty and risk to life and loss without a major earthquake. Look here for more information on how we can help as it becomes available. You can find a first hand account of one of the missionaries I know down there at this link.

Personally I'm asking for prayers for lifeline.org missionaries Gretchen, who is in-country with a team, and her husband Bob who is still in Westerville. I can imagine how he has felt all night and this morning. Also, pray for our close friends Doug and Amy Reichley, a young couple with a new son and a new adopted Haitian son this past year who are missionaries in the epicenter as well. All of them are OK after the quake, but lack of resources, poor communications, social instability, and disease will be immense problems for everyone on the island of Hispaniola in the coming days and weeks.