Update....

Here is the latest email from Dee Dorce'..........


Thank you we can't begin to be grateful enough for what you are doing and what the Lord has done for us. We are trying not to act impulsively about anything. There are so many things to assess and they must be assessed wisely. Please pray for wisdom for us to know the best way to help.

Our first impulse is to flock to PAP to help! to search! to give water and food and clothes! Then our senses come about us that really means while we are all flooded with emotion at such an extreme level, the Lord has given Wilckly the ability and strength to stay patient and rational and to think through each situation. If we rush in what help can we give? if we wait, the trouble will come to us!!! and little by little it has begun. More people are coming and many of them with those who are injured. Many of those who went to look for those missing are so traumatized by what they saw and God forbid what they smelled, that they are stunned. They aren't able to function. Last night we had almost 200 people sleeping in the yard at carries, on the ground. i know you all think it is funny but it is cold for people who are used to sleeping inside a very small enclosed area with no windows and where the temperature for sleeping is from 85 to 100 degrees and they won't crack a window because they don't want the evil spirits to have a place to come in. the evenings are probably around 68 to 70 degrees at the foot of the mountain with a breeze off the ocean. Great sleeping for you but when we got up this morning the dew was so heavy that we had to wring the sheets and blankets out and put them in the sun. Everyone is coughing and has runny noses. We need cough medicine and pain medication. We need blankets, sheets, pillows, pieces of carpet because we know this is only the beginning of our new community. We need plywood, 2x4's, tin, nails. We need tarps. If ever there was a time we need the big equipment we have been waiting for it is now. The backhoe loader is essential in preparing the place for those coming and for going to help with the clean-up in PAP where our schools and churches are located. The backhoe loader, a small bull dozer and any fair sized dump truck would be huge assets in trying to help clean up all the mess. The time to ask for that is now, we don't know who God has out there wanting to help in these capacities and to come donate their time and service after they get here. Don't worry, from the little I've seen, it will be decades and we will still trying to clean up all the mess. Soon they will be finished with what they can do in PAP and people will start to come in droves to the countryside looking for shelter food and water. Wilckly and I are today trying to decide how best to use what we have in hand, money and supplies. A small sack of rice that holds 9 gallons of rice was being sold for $180 haitian, now if you can find it, it is $300 Haitian. Fortunately we had a supply of our own gas stocked up for the seminar for vehicles and generators. We will use it sparingly but glad we have it. Hopefully we will be able to find mattresses, cots etc at St. marc in the mean time that we will be able to use to receive people we know the people are still in shock that are still alive but when they get their senses about them, they will come to Kiki and Dee, they always do. if we had the bobcat Wilckly would already be clearing the land above at Carries to prepare to receive people that will be coming and those we don't know how long they will be staying. We are talking about the gator too as we don't even have a clue what traveling situation will come about. Sorry I am not making much sense I'm racing against battery. Thanks for all you are doing. Keep the faith.

Dee

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