I look at all this devastation and destruction that seems unsurpassable. My heart aches for my dear friends who have for a second time lost so much but they have not lost their faith. PRAY for them in the midst of all this devastation and destruction. The evil one is busy making it difficult for them to remain faithful. Anyone who has lived in Haiti must be likened unto Job if they, with their faith can survive it. Haiti is the cemetery for missionaries. It has broken the spirit, heart and faith of many good people. PLEASE PRAY FOR ALL OF GOD'S WORKERS IN HAITI!!! Pray for their strength to face every single day with it's millions of adversities. It is impossible to face them without the Lord. I find the tears will not stop as I weep for their losses and in the same breath thank God for sparing their lives. I thank God for putting us at Carries with all its adversities and it's own battles. Pray for Haiti. She is broken but we can't say beyond fixing because then our work would be futile. We each find the strength to trust the Lord for His guidance through each and every day. How powerful and amazing is our God!!! There is no one like our God.
Why am I here in California? What futile attempt could I make to help these people that would even make a difference. God has put me here to help you be more aware of our brothers and sisters in Haiti and their everyday plight.
I got the message from Crash earlier this week to get ahold of Fred and let him know everything was flooded and the losses were great beyond measure but their lives were spared and they were safe on the second floor of their house. Two Americans there with them but safe from the flood waters. Wow does God have work in store for those two men. I found myself stunned at the thought of the recurrence of it all and WORSE this time. I kept playing over the plight of most of the Haitians. Already hungry now stranded on their roof with no food and no help in sight. I recall the seminar I did with Professor Gina Green from CCCB in Haiti at this very building that is all but underwater. It was an amazing experience to try to translate the plight of each of these women as the flood waters rose the first time. As they saw their loved ones they were clinging to washed away by the powerful water. Some as the scrambled to the roof watching others and hearing them scream as they were swept away. The waiting, the hunger, the children, the cold, wet, relentless rain! All of this would continue to haunt them every time they heard a clap of thunder, saw a cloud in the sky or felt a drop of rain. That's why we went, to help them deal with those fears and to keep trusting the Lord who had delivered them. Some were not only delivered from the flood but from the clutches of Satan and the voodoo they had been involved in. Some amazing things had happened in spite of all the devastation and they will again. But for the here and now, they are hurting, they are hungry they are helpless and without help. There is not FEMA to the rescue as I have shared with so many. Nobody is coming in to rebuild Gonaives. It's not gonna happen. But my friend Salonique and his wife Jean and their six children and Living Water Christian Mission will be there and they will continue on. They will faithfully keep plugging away, step by step, day by day. Please pray for them and for their children and all those that they will help weather this adversity.
Dee
--- On Thu, 9/4/08, FRED J GREEN <fjgsusej@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
From: FRED J GREEN
Subject: Today;s email from Salonique
To: "Fred Green"
Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008, 9:02 PM
We praise God because that we are alive. On this note, I greet you in
the name of Our Great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Where should I begin? I really do not know. There are so many things
to report, the devastation is so much that we do not have enough words
to describe it.
One thing I can tell you, the Hurricane Jean who hit almost four years
ago was a piece of cake in comparison to the devastation of Hurricane
Hannah. There is one single difference: we had more deaths in Jean
than in Hannah. The only reason we had less death in Jean is because
now people are alert whenever people talk about hurricane. So they are
more careful, more prudent, consequently less die. We have way more
houses destroyed. During Hurricane Jean water raised to 7/8 foot, in
Hannah we are talking 10 foot and higher. We only have two people we
do not get hold on yet, and the relatives are looking for them and we
do not have any signal of them yet. I hope that they are alive and are
somewhere taking refuge in town. Pray for Mrs. Theresias and her
daughter Emmanuella.
The generator was under water for about 15 hours.
The wall of the school campus is gone, the whole thing.
The wall of the Church property, wall that we have just built less
than three months ago is completely gone.
Everything which was on the first floor of our buildings is gone, the
ones we see are damage.
The bus was carried away by the water off campus about 500 foot
distance and was stop by another big truck, the two colide.
The east side of the wall on my house is gone
The bigger gate is gone
The water reached the roof yesterday afternoon.
The effort we made on the cafeteria is dismantle.
The steel that we bought to use for the roof of the cafeteria is where
to be found
Tables and benches, fabric for uniform, all school supplies we had,
computers in the lower level are all gone.
In the midst of all these things Living Water is still serving the
community. We have about 200 people who took refuge at Living Water
upper level. We have at the at least 500 people at the present; a
number of them are babies, we have one gal she has an 8 days old baby
with her. These people do not have anything to eat. The water does not
leave anything for our people.
Micah our administrator does not save not even one pair of shoes. I
mean, it is total devastation. All our leaders are affected. Some
houses belonging to our people are damage, others are gone altogether.
I am glad that we made the effort to put the upper level on our house.
We house over 50 people last night and we people are still coming to
take refuge in our home.
I want you all to know that the two missionaries that we have with us,
namely Bill Fudge and Scott Hudson are safe and sound. We need a lot
of prayer, as they say that we may have more rain coming. Pray, please
pray.
We did not have the time to save much, except our important paper and
some important stuff to Gine, my wife. I do not save a single book
which was in my house, not even my Bible. Brothers and sisters, it is
as I said a total devastation.
Our request to you is (1) Pray so that we do not have another
Hurricane, and any more rain in a while.
Please send funds to help us buying food to feed our people and those
who take refuge in our campus and in my home. Pray the city as a
whole. Our people, many of them are down and discouraged. We need
clothes. We need toiletery. We need anything that people need to
survive.
We love you. We count on you.
Attached are a few pictures.
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