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For the past few days, there have protests and rioting throughout Haiti’s capital city Port au Prince. The Haitian people are angry over soaring food prices and the fact they can no longer feed themselves or their loved ones. Prices of food have increased over 40% internationally over the past year and the people of Haiti have been affected by this increase more drastically than most. This country, the poorest in our western hemisphere, is seeing ill effects from the cost of living as many, many people are starving to death ~ LITERALLY!
As a medical mission team is scheduled to travel to Haiti next Saturday, many of us are in prayer mode. We are praying for a solution to the food situation for all of the hungry people in the country we so love. Although there will probably never be a complete resolution to the problems of Haiti ~ in my lifetime anyway ~ we pray for peace among these people. They need our prayers now more than ever!
Certainly many of us still hope we will be able to travel next week, but we know there is a strong possibility our trip will be postponed. It has been our hope for many months to carry out the Lord’s will to serve His people and help them with many of their needs. So, times like these when we are unable to do so, is quite disheartening. The people of Haiti need our help now, more than ever!
Many of us hoped to visit the children we are adopting from the orphanage. We were looking forward to spending a week getting to know them, showing them lots of love and making cherished memories. Selfishly, we are saddened by the fact the time apart from our children will be longer now. The staff of Three Angels has not been able to leave the O while others cannot come into work. It just is not safe enough to be out on the street right now. Everyone is doing well at Angel House as of today; however, the situation is not good at all for anyone. This is also disheartening, as they need us, too, more than ever!
I am asking you, my faithful blog readers, to please take the time to pray for the people of Haiti. I ask that you pray for peace to overcome the horrific violence. I ask you to please pray for the leaders of this nation so that they may see the need to do something to aid the helpless men, women and children of their country. The people of Haiti need our help, our prayers and our hope, more than ever!
As a medical mission team is scheduled to travel to Haiti next Saturday, many of us are in prayer mode. We are praying for a solution to the food situation for all of the hungry people in the country we so love. Although there will probably never be a complete resolution to the problems of Haiti ~ in my lifetime anyway ~ we pray for peace among these people. They need our prayers now more than ever!
Certainly many of us still hope we will be able to travel next week, but we know there is a strong possibility our trip will be postponed. It has been our hope for many months to carry out the Lord’s will to serve His people and help them with many of their needs. So, times like these when we are unable to do so, is quite disheartening. The people of Haiti need our help now, more than ever!
Many of us hoped to visit the children we are adopting from the orphanage. We were looking forward to spending a week getting to know them, showing them lots of love and making cherished memories. Selfishly, we are saddened by the fact the time apart from our children will be longer now. The staff of Three Angels has not been able to leave the O while others cannot come into work. It just is not safe enough to be out on the street right now. Everyone is doing well at Angel House as of today; however, the situation is not good at all for anyone. This is also disheartening, as they need us, too, more than ever!
I am asking you, my faithful blog readers, to please take the time to pray for the people of Haiti. I ask that you pray for peace to overcome the horrific violence. I ask you to please pray for the leaders of this nation so that they may see the need to do something to aid the helpless men, women and children of their country. The people of Haiti need our help, our prayers and our hope, more than ever!
4 comments:
How sad........I will be praying, Colleen, for Haiti and for the team. I truly hope that you are all able to go next week.......
Prayers.....
Will be praying! I continue to hope that this situation will be resolved soon!
Praying, of course. You never know what can happen in a week in Haiti!
Amen.
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