Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Specific prayer requests from Haiti

Information coming out of Haiti is slow. All phones, including cell phones are down. There is no electricity unless you have a generator and even that would depend on if your generator were damaged or how much fuel you have to run it. Internet access is basically for as long as people have batteries/electricity to keep their computer on. That said, I have managed to compile a very basic list of specific concerns from Haiti.

*Real Hope for Haiti has family members unaccounted for in PAP. Enoch's mom, dad, and brother I believe.
*Foyer de Sion orphanage has had no contact with it's families yet. As you can imagine, they are quite worried.
*Licia at Real Hope for Haiti has said that food price have already become inflated. Pray for the generousity of those who have access to food, that they might not price gouge their fellow Haitians.
*There are approximately 9, 000 UN troops stationed in Haiti. The UN compound collapsed and most of the troops/UN staff are unaccounted for.
*Kim, the president of Kenson's orphanage, has not been able to contact anyone at the orphanage since last night about 30 minutes after the earthquake. Pray for contact. Two board members will be in Haiti tomorrow if they can get into Port Au Prince. They are also trying to contact them via HAM radio.
*The Christianville Mission in Gressier which has NCC faculty member David Huskey on it's board sustained major damage and has four staff members missing.
*The airport in PAP is back up and running under limited use. Pray that rescue planes/helicopters will be able to safely get in and out.
*A group from First Christian Church in Norfolk is currently in Haiti but are on the northern coast. They are okay but I'm sure they are wondering how they will be able to get home.
*Lastly, a petty request in the midst of so much major stuff. Pray for the adoption paperwork contained within many of the buildings in Port Au Prince. We have no idea what this will do to adoptions but for people and children who have been waiting for long amounts of time, starting over feels like hopelessness. I have many friends who are near the end and I cannot imagine how they must feel. According to Kim from FHG, a children's advocacy group and the US State Department are aware of how the earthquake has affected adoptive families and hope to help with creating solutions for families with children still in Haiti.

Again, I ask you to step up and pray. Even just make yourself watch 10 minutes of one of the cable news shows and pray as you feel lead for the different situations they are reporting on.

1 comment:

NUSLP said...

praying like crazy!