Earthquake in Haiti

Friends, thankfully we as a family are fine, yet we mourn for the destruction in our neighboring country Haiti.  We also mourn for our Haitian friends and neighbors living here, the majority as refugees, in Santo Domingo.  Most have family and friends living in Haiti, and of course a great percentage of them hail from Port au Prince.

As Mission Emanuel, we are striving to be a conduit through which food, water and medicine can be delivered quickly and efficiently to both Port au Prince and to the current and future refugees living in our small community of Bayona here in Santo Domingo.  If you feel led to give financially toward these efforts you may contact Mission Emanuel's US office at (877)422-9200.

Several of our Mission Emanuel teammates plan to drive three truckloads of goods (boxes of nonperishable food, water bottles from Mission Emanuel's water purification plant, and first aid supplies and antibiotics) on Saturday or Sunday, depending on when we can access the medicines and the accessibility of the Jimaní border crossing.  Personally, we will probably not be traveling on this first trip to Haiti, however we do want to be conduits for the love and provision of God in our community.  Please pray for us to know our role here in Santo Domingo in making the love, compassion and sovereignty of God known to a scared and mourning Haitian community.

Of course, please continue to pray for all Haitian people, especially those living (and dying) in and around Port au Prince.  May the God of all grace, who calls us to his eternal glory in Christ, heal, restore and redeem this situation and these loved people.