Finally a Word/ A Tearful Day

We have finally gotten an email from Marc. It is brief, and obvious that any help is needed! Here is Marc's email:

"We made it safe and sound. Everyone from the team is fine and most of our haitian. some has houese fell on them some came out some not yet. We have no more school, the walls are fell. the west part of the country is totally distroyed. there is no houses stand up. the estimated death for now is 700,000. Lots still not found. Let everyone know any help is fine for we have nothing to help the people. Love you and can'wait to see you all."
by for now, marc"

So please keep praying and sending in aid. We will be holding a fundraiser at Urban Thrift in Calgary on Saturday, 10am-6pm. Any purchases made, the profits will be going to Haiti ARISE for Disaster Relief. There also will be a benefit concert being held in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan next week. For more details about that, please contact Eric Fawcett on our contact us page.

We will be working to mobilize some teams and aid to be sent down ASAP. Thank you again to all of you who have been praying and sending in support!

A Tearful Day

 It has been a tearful and overwhelming day and night. The magnitude of this earthquake that has hit home for my family is really more than devastating. I sit by the phone and email with abaited breath waiting for any hint of news... Marc and our team are safe, but the technical school is damaged. There are still many others I think of that are a part of our ministry and community that we do not know if they are dead or alive, many young students in PAP, many friends with family there. It will be a long time rebuilding... Please, keep praying. I did receive news from Heart to Heart, which is Marc's brother's orphanage, Luc Honorat. This is the email from Rebekah Larkin, staff at H2H:

"I am at another mission using their internet. Grand Goave was hit hard & our compound was severely damaged. The quaks continue to hit us but they are less severe but strong enough that buildings continue to fall. By nothing less than the grace of God the children living at H2H are alive & not badly hurt. We had 4 kids in PauP and we have only found 2. We are still looking desperately for Kaka (Renel's brother) & Emilio (Jay Michel's brother). Most of the exteral walls of the compound have colapsed. The kitchen/dining room/guest house/depot has collapsed completely and the church is beyond repair. We had 7 kids cleaning the guest house when it fell, but we got them removed & they are only minorly scratched. The ground is shaking as I write and I really shouldn't stay here long. I hear the phone service should be up by next week but I don't know that for sure. I will make a huge effort to come to this mission daily to connect with you. Please pray for us. Pray for strength. We can't go into any buildings so we are all sleeping on the open area in the compound. People are starting to travel between towns and since last night news is coming to us about the deaths & the devastation of our family & friends. Amos' wife was killed when the building she was in colapsed. Pastor Luc & his family are fine. Many others have died or are badly injured. We are still very much in survival mode. Our food depo is completely buried, along with all our cooking pots, etc. We have borrowed & scrambling to buy food locally. I connected with the UN this morning & they have promised to return this afternoon with their Commander. We need your prayers more than I can tell you, we are struggling. We know we have been covered by the grace of God as it could have been so much worse for us. We are all praising God for his mercy and we know he will continue to care for us"- Rebekah Larkin

Lifeline Mission, who has the only available means of communication through their sattelite internet, expressed on their website blog that tremors are still being felt today. Amos, whose wife was killed, is Marc's nephew. She was 8 months pregnant.