Back in the Dominican Republic

I am traveling on a bus out of Haiti to the DR after an experience that will forever mark me. I served on a team of Americans, Germans, and Hatians. We spoke English, German, French, Spanish, and Creole. There were over 30 of us. Some of us are leaving, but more are coming. I praise God for each and every person that I worked with and for Helping Hands Foreign Missions. Right now, we are traveling through the Hatian countryside on our way back to Santo Domingo. We will fly out tomorrow.
We operated a clinic right outside the broken down capitol building in Port-au-Prince the last two days. We treated almost 500 patients. Many were sick. Some had broken bones and wounds. There were many children and babies. The lines of people to see us stretched down the street, but they were just a few of the 600,000 living in tent cities right in that area.
People here are spiritually very hungry. They are afraid of another earthquake and they are turning to God in droves. Person after person came up to me and asked me how they could know God. As a team, we saw over 150 people turn to Christ in two days. Others rejected the gospel, but you could see God working on the hearts of many.
Yesterday, one of our team members was helping a little girl. She had lost her whole family in the earthquake and was only 11 years old. She had been picked up on the streets and was being used for sex slavery. I don't know exactly how it happened, but she was able to get away. When I saw her later, our team had gotten her and were taking her to an orphanage that we knew about. God had us there at that time to be able to rescue that little girl. I am thankful.
We are working with the orphanage and a ministry in Alabama called Bridges of Faith to bring 50 orphans back to Alabama. Please pray that we can work this out.
Haiti is in deplorable condition. It was already unspeakably poor. Now, there is no electricity, drinking water, or food. People cannot live in their homes. Tent cities are everywhere. The UN is dropping off food, but that will often cause a riot. 3 people were killed a block from our clinic at the capitol the other day when the food was being distributed. But still, people are doing their best to return to a sense of normalcy. There are many Haitian Christians here who are trying to serve God in the midst of chaos.
We are at the border again trying to leave. My prayer is that many more ministries and Christians would come. Fear should not keep us sleeping safely in our beds at home. The hands and feet of Jesus are needed here. I praise God that He called me to come here. Jesus wants to be ministered to and worshiped here in Haiti. This is the altar for the American Church. Will we bow down and worship Christ here by ministering to those in need? We have already done so much through giving. Now is the time for people to come. It can be done. But, there are almost no Christian ministries here yet. Now is the time for Christian doctors, nurses, and others to come who can just show compassion and give a cup of cold water in Jesus' name. I really hope that more come very soon. The need here is beyond description.
My prayers are with the Haitians today.

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