Reflections of Haiti - by Kevin

Many of you have asked about my trip to Haiti. I'll try to reflect a bit on it. It was one of the hardest weeks of my life. I was ready for the poverty but I thought there would be some relief in places, some portions of the country that looked 'ok'. This wasn't the case. The very worst place in America looks better than the nicest village in Haiti. I saw hundred of miles of abject poverty. Interestingly, you get used to it fast. After 2-3 days it becomes normal and in a way, I found this good. It was good how fast we can get used to things. I got used to not drinking much water, I got used to eating a lot less, I got used to wearing dirty clothes and not having a shower, etc. I got used to seeing Haitians as Haitians, not as charity cases. Humans are so good at adapting. This was encouraging to me because it meant that we as a family can adapt here in the US. We can live with less, we can consume less in order to give more away, we can live with less luxuries. It's actually not that hard I found, you get used to not having stuff pretty fast. It's kind of empowering actually to live with fewer resources (I think this is why many like camping). So although I never felt the Haitians were 'lucky' for being so poor, I did feel that Americans were unlucky to have so much -it hurts the soul to have everything you need and live in comfort all the time. The things we complain about seemed so silly down there. I'm going to try to complain less, now that I have the Haitian perspective. It's hard not to live easily and luxuriously in America so this remains my challenge. I can afford a lot of stuff and lot of things with my job. I need constant work in this area to give more away -feel free to call me on it if you see me living too extravagantly, I need the discipline!

Haiti is a failed state. There is no real law, no infrastructure, no resources. I got the feeling that the place could riot at any minute, and you wouldn't blame them. They have been backed into a corner and feel totally powerless as a people. I didnt see one real commercial store or public building except the airport. It's like the wild West. People drive 70+ MPH on dirt roads, passing people on either side. Pedestrians, animals and kids walk the sides of the road as traffic zooms by at highway speeds. People travel everywhere on tap-taps, which are pickup trucks with extended tops. It was common to see 10+ people in a compact pickup truck bed.

They also drive small motorcycles everywhere. I saw a couple families of 4 on one motorcycle. At the clinic we treated 3 people who had a motorcycle accident. One of them had a complete break of the arm, you could see the broken bone pushing on the skin. If someone has an accident or gets sick in Haiti they just have to live with it. No one can afford care at the few hospitals and there are no ambulances. One lady we saw broke her hip 5 months ago. She was living on her back for 5 months.

Haitians waiting outside the clinic for medical care

The clinic was crazy. People would wait outside the gate starting at 4-5 am. You would hear motorcycles and trucks all night bringing people. Then at 6 am they would let the people into the courtyard and triage them, and give them numbers. Without earplugs I would have been toast. The sound of the donkeys was crazy. They would bray all night. And there were barking dogs everywhere. From 6:30am or so until 6pm we saw patients. I think we saw about 800-900 that week. Most had typical aches and pains (they have a lot of back/neck pain, which is not surprising when you see them carrying 5 gallon buckets of water on their heads for 3 miles).

But we also saw a premature baby with neonatal tetanus infection (no one gets tetanus in developed countries). We saw a fair number of malaria cases, HIV cases, tumors, seizures, STDs, and of course cholera. We had about 7 cases of cholera while we were there. These cases scared the people (the first lady that came in sent people running covering their faces with their shirts (they think it's airborne). We had to educate them on how it's spread. These were the first cholera cases in that remote part of Haiti. It's getting worse now. Cholera is a very treatable infection. One has really bad diarrhea and vomiting but the course is only 3-5 days. The problem is that with the vomiting and diarrhea you can't stay hydrated and people die of electrolyte loss/dehydration. The diagnosis is made by looking at the stool -there is none, just water with flecks of mucous/tissue.

You can literally save lives with a lacate IV. Antibiotics arent even indicated in most cases. But simple IVs and hydration salts are hard to find in Haiti so people are dying from something so treatable. There are so many people with no teeth, injuries to their eyes (or just need glasses but without them are legally blind). The old people often have cataracts. Everything is so treatable in the US.

The quarantine area for cholera patients

The people are so stressed. The 2008 flood, the earthquake and now cholera have stressed them to the core. I would say the Haitians were nice. I would not say they were happy. It seemed to me that most were at the ends of their ropes.

a post-earthquake tent city

We had 7 physicians so I didn't need to see patients. We actually had 2 docs that rotated in the pharmacy because we needed more help there. I drew a lot of blood, did a lot of microscope work looking for trichimonis, malaria, etc. and I filled a lot of prescriptions. We had a good pharmacy which was well stocked.

the pharmacy

The most disappointing thing about the trip for me was that there was only one other medical team member who was a Christian. The others were typical west-coast liberals who were there purely as humanitarians. This grated on me as time went on since the local pastors assumed we were there because we were being obedient to Christ. But most of the team thought religion was just a useful crutch for the hopeless Haitians but had no real value (it was a useful delusion that they were willing to grant the uneducated Haitians). But my friend Lorenzo was there. He is a born-again Catholic and an amazing pediatrician. I saw him literally stay up 2 nights to care for sick kids. He saw hundreds of kids and managed his own neonatal and pediatric ICU wards. He didn't get much help from the other docs (who were not peds people and were younger than me). I learned a lot from Lorenzo. Perhaps my biggest role on that trip was keeping him company. He also felt lonely being on a trip with agnostic doctors.

Lorenzo working with patients

One of the docs got a bad case of diarrhea and was out for 2 days but otherwise the team stayed healthy. I had to take some post-exposure drugs after I got exposed to a patient's blood and those made me very sick for the trip home and for 3 days after. But now I feel normal again. It was hard to deal with the hopeless feeling in Haiti. I kept thinking that even if I had a billion dollars I couldn't do much in Haiti. There is no Home Depot to buy building supplies, there is no real post office to get things delivered, there are no contractors to call, etc. But I can say that the only glimmers of hope in Haiti are around the churches. The church projects build schools, feed the kids and educate them in French. Only about 50% of Haitians can read. Education is key. Without the churches Haiti would be hopeless. The pastors can tell you stories that blow you away. One told me that since the schools were closing due to cholera fears, the kids would not eat. He also told me of a boy who needed socks to go to school so they would cut a sock into strips so that they could wear a 'band' of sock on their ankle above their shoe to make it look like they had socks. As always, it's the kids that break your heart. I gave away a lot of lollypops. And the hardest thing for me was seeing kids sleep on the dirt or on concrete floors (which is how they sleep at home too). These were kids that were the same age as Sydney and Kayleigh.

I left whatever clothes and stuff I could. There was no place to buy souvenirs so I gave that cash away, it wasn't hard, it was very easy to do.

There are Compassion projects in Haiti (Jill can get you a kid) and here is the website for the organization that runs the clinic and school where I was:

http://haitifoundationofhope.org/give-hope/

kids from the school

This is an overview of the church, school and clinic in Terre Blanche

The older I get the more I feel like being a pastor rather than a clinician. So let me pontificate a bit (oh brother, here he goes...) You all know one of my inspirations is Francis Chan. He is southeast Asia now. Read some of the updates from him and his wife and his 5 kids who all went with him to serve at an orphanage: http://www.francischan.org/#/updates

Chan has always said, and now I'm going to say; stop saying 'I wish I could help' or 'you're so lucky that you're able to serve like that'. The biggest lie that we all give in to is that since we can't do everything we should do nothing. You can tell me you're not a Christian, fine. You can tell me you don't want to give, fine. You can tell me you're a secular humanist, fine. I can deal with all that. What I can't deal with anymore is the Christian who says "I really wish I could help but after my bills, concert tickets, vacations, etc, I don't have anything left". We care more about our standard of living than we care about others simply living. I also can't deal with people who say they aren't 'called' to serve or sacrifice. Every Christian is called to sacrafice and care for the poor -it's the defining aspect of Christianity. Read Peter, read James, read Luke. Like all of us, I struggle with how to live sacrificially as an American. Check out the book 'Radical' by David Platt. It's a quick read and helped me to focus. He challenges his readers to do a simple experiment for a year -I did the experiment. Give it a try.
http://www.amazon.com/Radical-Taking-Faith-American-Dream/dp/1601422210

Here are some pictures from Haiti. If any of you want to go on a trip like this let me know. I can help if funds are difficult. Currently I have an interest to serve in Thailand...

-Kevin

Haiti Photos

One of the team members Kevin went to Haiti with, sent out a link to some great photos from the trip. Many of these photos were taken before Kevin and Lorenzo ever got there. Most of the team left 2 days before Kevin was supposed to leave. And since Kevin was delayed another 2 days because of the hurricane, he missed a lot of what the others saw and experienced.

Kevin didn't have a camera, only his phone. He did get some pictures, but I really enjoyed seeing these.

The pictures are really good, and you can see them HERE. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did! I'll leave you with a couple of my favorites....This first one is the preemie Kevin referred to in his emails while he was there.

#320 - Baby Vant

For those of you who were following Kevin's trip, here is an update on the little boy who was so sick. They were finally able to find a place to take him for surgery. On the way to the airport, the team dropped him off at the hospital.

Below is the photo of several team members, trying to figure out what was wrong with him.

Here is what Joe, the founder of Haiti Foundation of Hope, forwarded the team members regarding this little boy.

We just received a phone call from Delamy who has news from the Hospital at Pierre Payan. ‘Baby Vant’ ( our nameless 1 year old- ‘vant’ is Creole for ‘belly’ ) is doing fantastically well. He did have appendicitis, and sailed through the surgery! Octave stopped by the hospital yesterday, and said, ’there is one very happy family in Pierre Payan’. When the time comes, he will also provide transportation for them back to Terre Blanche.

Thanks you guys for a job well-done! Thank God this team was full of ‘bull dogs’, and thank you Steve for your good advice! This is a wonderful story- despite the discouragement of taking young ‘Baby Vant’ to two different institutions who could not provide neither care nor advice to us of where to go, despite Delamy then calling many other hospitals and doctors without avail, we still have this wonderful success story (you should know that Delamy and Linda had sat down and prayed Thursday afternoon, Nov 11, after having exhausted all options, asking God to provide a miracle. That’s when Steve’s email arrived suggesting Pierre Payan).

Of course, we all know it goes without saying; we are so blessed to be able to work with someone like Pasteur Delamy, and the Terre Blanche staff that he has formed. Without him, we would not be sharing this story. But this also shows how cholera has impacted HFH’s work in Terre Blanche, and how difficult it will be for future teams.

Nevertheless, this also shows what HFH does so well, working together with our Haitian staff, to take care of the patients that God has entrusted to our care.

Kevin was explaining to me last night that many of these people were nameless and so the team had to name them. That's how this boy got the name Baby Vant (belly). I'm thankful this story has a good ending!

Sunday in Haiti

Nov. 14, Sunday: We will leave early for the Port-au-Prince airport. Pray all goes smoothly and that we arrive at our destinations safely.

In the coming weeks please continue to pray for encouragement of the Terre Blanche Free Methodist Church. Pray for just the right amount of rain and good crops. Pray for the Clinic of Hope employees that they will have a vision to serve Christ through this clinic. Pray for safety of all who are involved in the building of the Annex. Pray that the Terre Blanche Christians will live with hope and peace and that Christ’s love will continue to spread in this village. Pray that the Holy Spirit will cause villagers to turn from voodoo, towards Christ. Pray for all the churches and donors represented by this team.

Saturday in Haiti

Prayer request from the prayer letter...

Nov. 13, Saturday: This will be a full morning. After seeing our Haitian co-workers and any medical emergencies, we will close the clinic and begin to make an inventory of the remaining medications and supplies. Pray for accuracy as this is very important in the planning of the next team. Saying good-bye, we start our drive back to PAP. We will stop for an evening at the beach together to share the meaning of this week and to praise God for His work in this village.

Update from Kevin

Here is the update I just got from Kevin...

Today has been pretty busy, Lorenzo is about to fall on the floor. We shipped that little kid to the closest city to have surgery because they told us they could do it. They got there and then they said...sorry we don't have an anesthesthisiologist. So they had to come back. If it's an ileus he may be ok, if it's a bowel obstruction he will die soon. It would be an easy operation in the states. If he has a bowel movement he's ok, its been 4 days though.

We got a 6 year old boy in with encephalitis or something (its so hard to diagnose anything here). He had a siezure, high temp. He's doing a bit better now. We have 4 or 5 cholera patients. One boy seems to be getting better, he may go home tonight.

I've been more useful this day, working hard in the pharmacy and lab. I still have a lot to work on if I come back. Now I know the skills I need. Pastor Delamy is cool. I gave my spending money to him to help with some kid. I'm going to leave my clothes and sandals here too. No Haitian would ever fit into my pants (they are all way too thin) but i'll leave what I can.

Friday in Haiti and an update

Prayer request from the prayer letter...

Nov. 12, Friday: Today will be our last formal day in clinic. Pray the crowds do not get discouraged and unruly. Help them to understand that the Terre Blanche Clinic of Hope continues to operate daily. Pray they understand this is God’s loving provision for them.

Here is another update from Kevin...I'm so glad he's giving us a glimpse of what he is experiencing. In case you don't know, Lorenzo is a good friend of ours that lived here for a year and has just moved to Peoria, IL. Kevin and Lorenzo signed up to go on this trip together.

Today was a long day. I'm getting pretty good at drawing blood from dehydrated old veins. These people are all so thin and leathery. The really sick kid Lorenzo had came back from the city 4 hours away...they can't operate on him. So he is lying on the floor with his brother and sister. If he has a perforated bowel he will die. Lorenzo was up late with him putting iv lines in and watching him. Lorenzo is amazing. We now have 3 people with cholera. One is old and is so hypotensive she might die tonight. The community is freaking out about cholera. There are riots in the city -pray we can't get through the roads on Saturday and Sunday safely. We had a malaria case today...malaria actually isn't as common as I thought it would be here, chloroquine is everywhere. The medicine here is pretty boring actually, only a few weird cases. We see a lot of trichomonis and chlymidia. No drug overdoses or pathology consults so I'm more of a nurse and pharmacist still, but it's ok.

We have 5 inpatients tonight. One is a 29 week premie. No one knows when she was born. No one knows their birth date here, some know the year, but many don't. About half can read creole and quarter can read French. The baby would be fine in the states but she is too young to latch on and feed. The mom can't figure out the NG tube so no one knows how she will get fed after we leave. Hopefully Pastor Delamy can find a way. Lorenzo will be up all night with her, he won't let people help much and really no one knows half as much as he does so he has to do it all. The other docs are clueless about kids.

I still haven't decided if I will come back here or not. I can be of help to them by expanding the lab and showing them how to do better microscopy, but you never really know if they are getting it. They just smile and nod and say wee miseur when you try to teach them something. Right now I feel more like going to school and doing a surgical residency -that's what we need most right now. Wish I wasn't so old.

It's sad to think that tomorrow (Friday) is our last day, after that these people don't have any options again, until the next team in March.. Saturday we drive half way home, sleep at a place near the beach (the resort looks like a bad motel 6) but apparently it's the best in northern Haiti.

Its hot now and there are lots of mosquitos around. I took my meds, but I hope the bites I have weren't from infected bugs. Tonight I had a scoop of rice, a coke and a potato and it was fine, without working out I don't need many calories. We eat way too much in America. Then I sat at my microscope and cried a bit.

I'm not looking forward to traveling outside the gate Saturday, out past the guards into the cities again. The flights home are never fun but I am ready to come home. With my limited skills I can do more from home now, gathering supplies and books to send with the next team.

Thanks for the prayers. Pray Lorenzo gets some sleep. And pray that the panic in the cities is calmed.

Update from Kevin

Several of you have commented or emailed me, telling me you and others you know are praying for Kevin and his team. THANK YOU! Please keep praying....every day Kevin has asked us to pray that God does something big while they are there.

Here is an update from Kevin...

Today was the busiest day so far for me. Three guys came in from a motorcycle accident. One had a bad broken arm and was bleeding all over. No helmets of course. We had to send two of them to the city to get x rays and the bone set. Lorenzo has a 1 year old with an ischemic bowel, he's really bloated, needs surgery. We can't get him anywhere until tomorrow, 4 hours away they might be able to help him, might not. We may just watch him get really sick and die. His mom isn't here, just the dad and 2 other kids, they are all sleeping on the floor in the clinic together. We gave them dinner and a blanket. It's so sad.

I'm learning a lot of acute care medicine by watching but am so frustrated at what tools I don't have to help. A simple book, tool or instrument would mean much better patient care that i could help with but I didn't know what I would need so i am not prepared well. If there is a next time I will be better prepared. Our cholera kid is doing ok. We sent one guy home who will probably die tonight, but he's old and ready. I'm still struggling with the notion of what we are doing here versus what we could be doing (should we just be handing out food and clothes). Actually, the docs are doing a lot for most of the people, i just haven't played a key role in any diagnosis which was really was my hope in coming. But when you look into a guys eyes and see cataracts all over them you cant do anything, they just send him away. Lots of vaginal infections. Not too much malaria.

I've tried to be cheerful doing the work of an lpn or pharmacy tech. The people here are impressed at the labs i can do but the quality is so poor. It makes me frustrated to say 'the white count is about 12 to 14 when I should say it's exactly 9.2 or something like that, those are clinically significant differences but i just cant do much without better tools.

Pray that something awesome happens that will testify to the power of God. The best part so far is talking to the two pastors here and some of the translators. I told one of them i wanted to be a pastor and he wants me to preach at his church, wish i could. They are cool guys who have seen so much tragedy yet they still rejoice. Our one doc calls it a psychological adaptation coping strategy to stress, I call it the spirit of God.

Thursday in Haiti

Prayer request from the prayer letter...

Nov. 11, Thursday: The crowds will become more frantic as they see the week is coming to an end. The noise will be great, making it difficult to hear and understand the patients. Pray the Holy Spirit will calm the crowd. As the team members look into these desperate eyes, pray for them to remember that they are the hands and feet of Christ. May the crowds see the Lord in new caring ways and choose to follow Christ.

Wenesday in Haiti

Here is an update from Kevin...

Today was long. Saw lots of sick people. Two stick in my mind, one was a mother of three who was so thin she looked dead. I couldn't even find a vein to get blood. We did an ultrasound, she had a huge tumor in her gut. No one can operate on that here. She will die and she has a 17 month old baby. Then We had our first case of cholera today, a boy. He will be ok but if it spreads, the whole place could get crazy. It's the first case reported here. I'm helping, and have made an impact on 2 or 3 patients but i'm doing more nurse work than physician work since We have 5 docs. This team is actually too big. We walked around the village before dinner. I can't express what I saw in this town. The kids don't all wear clothes, what they do wear are rags. There was no school today so the kids told us they hadn't eaten today. They all wanted us to take pictures and show them to them on the camera screen. They are so cute. They
live in huts. I want to come back with just bags of food and clothes, and sandals. Tell kayleigh not to worry about dresses, the girls here only have one dirty shirt and no dresses. The people here are so tough. But without knowing the language i feel more like gawking tourist than a missionary.

Prayer request from the prayer letter

Nov. 10, Wednesday: While food, water and health for the team are carefully planned these are always a concern. Pray the food will be safe and appropriate. The team is providing the breakfast and lunch food, while Mme Elvire and the Haitian women prepare the evening meals. Please remember the health of the team members as they adjust to the environment.

Tuesday in Haiti

Prayer request from the prayer letter....

Nov. 9, Tuesday: There will be a great deal of pressure on the people working in the pharmacy. Pray that the pharmacy workers, aides and nurses, will know how to balance their work assignments. Pray we will have the proper medicines and accuracy in preparing prescriptions. There is always the unexpected, such as very sick patients, deliveries of babies or the need to transfer patients to hospitals hours away from us. Also, there are often mechanical problems with our equipment. Pray we will have the abilities and insight to do all that is needed. In addition to the teaching time in the morning, we plan to have ‘didactic’ sessions at the end of clinic daily. Not only is this a good time for exchange of information, but it also serves to build relationships with our Haitian staff.

Monday in Haiti

Prayer request from the prayer letter...

Nov. 8, Monday: Our day starts with breakfast, followed by our daily morning devotions, which will be led by our friend, Pastor Osmy. We hope to have a short teaching time each morning with the Haitian medical staff, as well as the community health workers. We hope to begin the clinic soon after this, but we know flexibility will be necessary. The crowd outside, which has been gathering since we arrived, will be pushing and shoving, as people desperately try to find a way to enter the clinic. Ask the Lord to send His peace and His control and to give the Haitian helpers the ability to know how to enforce orderliness. Each day, pray that the people with the most urgent needs will be able to get into the clinic. Pray for the health providers to have wisdom to know how to diagnose and treat each person. At the end of each day the team will be treated to a delicious Haitian meal, with time to relax, share their experiences and pre-package meds for the next day.

From Kevin

I got this a couple minutes ago from Kevin....I'm so thankful he made it to the clinic!

We made it here to Terre Blanche. What a trip. 24 hours of travel. We sat for 1.5 hours on the runway in Miami and they lost my bag at port au prince. But we finally got it all sorted and got here at 5 pm. We've had no sleep. Hatit is amazingly impoverished. I expected to see poverty but not 150 miles of nonstop squalor, it was hard to take. Trash everywhere, kids with no clothes playing in swamps. Goats and pigs everywhere. It's hard to describe. No one looks like they have a clean shirt or even a door on their house. The airport was scary. Everyone tries to take your bags. There was essentially one long road to terre blanche no turn offs for 250 Km. Along this road there are tons of pedestrians, kids, motorcycles, etc. Yet the cars go 70-80 mph. It was the scariest car experience i ever had. And so many potholes. I got car sick after 4 hours. We also got a flat tire and had to change it on a dirt road with people going 70 mph along side us. But we are at
the clinc. Should be busy tomorrow. Everyone seems nice so far. Not sure what i will do since they have 5 other docs who are internists.

A little more information

Here is a little more information from the prayer letter about Haiti Foundation of Hope...where Kevin is serving this week.

Haiti Foundation of Hope is committed to many projects in this community - projects such as primary and secondary education, women’s trade school, micro-loans, bio-sand water filters, the Clinic of Hope and the newly started community health program. Pray that as we encounter people, whether in the clinic or out in the community, they will see Jesus through our touch, words and actions. Remembering that in this village, there was no Christian witness before 1995 and many are still involved in voodoo and have not experienced the love of Christ.

Sunday in Haiti

Kevin should be in Haiti by now...he called me from Miami, just before boarding the plane. It was a two hour flight to Haiti and then at least a 5 hour ride by car to the clinic. The condition of the roads remains to be seen, so the actually traveling time could end up being much more. Please pray for Kevin and the other two team members as they travel north to the clinic.

Here is some information about the team and where they are going.

Team members:

Health Professionals: Joe & Janan Markee, Laura Kuipers, Todd Merrick, Jim Patterson, Lorenzo Boccuzzi, Meg Carey, Kevin Foley, Margaret Baker, Levi & Barbara Cole. Support: Krista Nelson, Cody Wyles, Chris Larson, & Linda Markee.

The team also consists of members of the Haitian church and we are all under the leadership of Pastor Delamy Bazilmé and his wife, Elvire.

Where are we going?

Our destination is the small village of Terre Blanche (TB), located 10 miles north of Gonaives. This is one of the poorest & most underserved areas of Haiti and this community is still struggling with the devastation from hurricane-caused floods last year. The effects of extreme hunger and an unstable political situation are still felt. Before the opening of the Clinic of Hope (2007) TB had limited health care. Very recently the new CHE (Community Health Evangelism) Program started. Many health workers are being trained and we are unsure of how this will impact the teams. Thank you for your prayers – they are essential to God’s work!

Today's prayer request from the prayer letter...

Nov. 7, Sunday: This morning we will join our Haitian brothers and sisters in worship. Worship with the Haitians is always uplifting as well as a deeply moving experience. The team will have an opportunity to share individually in church through a translator. Pray all that is said and done will be to the glory of God. We have much to be thankful for as in October ground was broken to begin to build another medical building (The Annex). More people are coming to TB for medical treatment since the earthquake and also with the excellent reputation of the Clinic of Hope that is spreading throughout Haiti.

***When I was in Peru, Kevin posted this tip of the day and now seems like a really good time to re-post it. Kevin's tip of the day: don't say you will pray for someone unless you really will, and since we all forget things like this by the end of the day, pray now. Pray with people, or for people, the minute you say you will.

Haiti

We are headed out the door in a few minutes to take Kevin to the airport. He will be flying all night, and we just realized it's daylight savings time so he'll get an extra hour of traveling. Lucky him!

Please pray for his safe travel. Once he lands in Haiti he has a several hour car ride to get to the clinic. If or when I hear from him, I'll report here. In the meantime, I have daily prayer requests for the team that I will be posting.

Haiti Update

Kevin's flight from Miami to Haiti was canceled, so he's staying put for now. They have rescheduled a flight for Saturday night. Hopefully they will be able to get to Haiti. Kevin has a whole suitcase of vitamins he is taking over that are desperately needed in the clinic.

Keep praying! Thanks

Please Pray

As you may or may not know, Kevin is supposed to leave for Haiti tomorrow. He is going on a medical mission trip with Medical Teams International and Haiti Foundation of Hope.

But there is a hurricane headed straight for Haiti, and is predicted to make landfall sometime Friday. Not only does this storm affect the travel for the team, it's the last thing the people of Haiti need. Haven't they had enough?

Before the earthquake, they were one of the poorest countries. Then the earthquake hit and devastated the county. Then the cholera epidemic. And now a hurricane?

I am pleading with God to either stop this storm or re-direct it. Please pray with me.