A Day of Good News

Cheryl Middlebrook recieved word from Doug, her husband, who is accompanying the team in Haiti. Here are his words.

"Hello... Living in the church has not been too bad. Kind of like the way camping used to be. We are all healthy, except Sue who may have cracked a rib. But the Tylenol I have is helping her sleep at night. We have 6 other Canadians from Tiano with us and a lot of the locals.

I’m going to try and send pictures on but we have very limited internet. Our sattelite dish (at Haiti ARISE) is broken so we have to go to the internet café and well you can imagine it is swamped. We are in good spirits considering and I have stories to tell when I get home! Pray that we stay safe, healthy and that we will be able to leave. You have more info then we do. We know Port Au Prince was devastated. We don’t know if airlines are coming in... The two ladies from Chile that were staying with us had a helicopter come and take them home. We took the students on a walk around to the goat farm property and community area. We met a lot of people who lost everything. The students collected all the extra money they had to buy food for the locals. They collected over $2500.00 to buy 4000 lbs of rice. The rice feeding became chaos, crowds came from everywhere. Some people we very angry, some trying to get seconds. Most of the students went back as they could not handle the chaos.

The main house is standing well very little damage done to it but the school will need to be rebuilt as well as the entire wall around the compound.. Well we ran out of propane so they cooking the old fashion way [over an open fire].
Doug"

Getting this word was a great relief, as well as the news that the foreign affairs will be going in to evacuate the team tonight or tomorrow:

"I am happy to tell you that word was received today (Friday) from the federal government that, after assessing the situation, they now have a concrete plan for the group’s removal and will move on it as soon as possible. We assume this means when transport is in place to do so.

Please do not hesitate to contact our office again, should you wish to do so.
Sincerely, Alex Atamanenko, MP, BC Southern Interior"

They have also assured us that we are first priority for receiving aid brought in to Haiti for relief!

Praise the Lord, prayers have been answered. I was reminded today of the verses in John 4:27 "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid." and again Philippians 4:6 "Don't worry about anything; Instead pray about everything. Tell god what you need and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God's peace, which exceeds anything we can understand."