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Hundreds of thousands of Haitians are walking out of Port au Prince crushed by a 7.0 earthquake on Tuesday, January 12.
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Carrying their dead
Haiti
January 15, 2010
Haitians are accustomed to suffering and to walking great distances, 30 miles a day to carry their produce over mountains to markets. A mile to carry a bucket of water to their hut.
In the past thirty year Port au Prince had swelled to over two million people. Desperately poor country folk moved to the city in hopes of finding work. Now Port au Prince is shrinking as Haitians evacuate on foot by the hundreds of thousands. They have been walking for days.
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Hell just got worse
Behind them is a city in ruins, though to the Western eye it has always been a city in ruins. Water, sanitation, schools, hospitals everything we take for granted were never there for most Haitians. On a good day Haiti is hell for nine million illiterate, unemployed peasants. Tuesday, January 12 was a really bad day, hell just got worse.
Plumes of dark smoke mark the burning of corpses throughout Port au Prince. Backhoes are digging graves anywhere there is dirt and throwing in the swollen heaps to stop the nauseating stench. All while pedestrians stream through every broken street to the surrounding mountains and away from the horrors of the capitol.
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No organized relief effort
Angry young Haitian men have been digging corpses and survivors out with their bare hands and stacking the bodies in the street as a protest against the non existent aid or organized relief. Hotel, school and hospital parking lots are the sites for medical triage and morgues for the innumerable victims.
Tempers are flaring after three sleepless days and nights of over forty tremors averaging 5.0. Damaged buildings continue to fall, walls continue to kill pedestrians and the agony continues on a nation who was already suffered more than imaginable pain.
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Two strong tremors awakened us
this morning at five o'clock. We spent much of our day trying to find diesel for the generator and gasoline for the car. Tomorrow we will go to the epicenter if gangs do not stop us in the streets.
Our sons, Little Joel and Michael, will arrive in Port au Prince tomorrow as part of the US relief effort, both are communications engineers and desperately needed here. Your prayers for our safety are app
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Haiti needs your prayers and gifts
We have received countless words of love and comfort for Haiti since last Tuesday's quake. One friend encouraged us that some of the hundreds of souls won in Cite Soleil may now be with the Lord. The effects of Haiti for Christ Ministries are eternal! During this disaster we have continued to minister in prayer and the word to a desperate people. Your gifts help us to do what He has placed us here to do - change Haitians' eternal destiny. Please give to Haiti for Christ Ministries and give generously.
Thank you and great is your reward in heaven when you see Haitians bowing before His throne.
Yours and His for Haiti,
Joel and Yvonne Trimble
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Prayer and the ministry of the word since 1975
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