They say a picture is worth a 1000 words … what do you see?
We went to another Tent Village today to visit with a community pastor to discuss how AIM wanted to partner with him to serve his people. The pastor was moved by our care and generosity. But, I was moved by what I saw.
This picture above is one of many I happened to capture as I looked around. Everywhere you look there are new tent communities from the last time I was here a month ago. It seems that everyone has moved into the city to receive food and water from the feeding programs.
Just today we heard that the outlying areas of Port-au-Prince such as Carrefour & Pettionville have increased to 400,000 & 350,000 people each.
I am convinced that the government is incapable of handling the crisis. They will not be able to remove the people and relocate them. My translator, Geftay, said to me … “The government will not do anything about these people. They will end up living here in these conditions for the rest of their lives, probably. And, my heart hurts for them.”
I wept as I heard my brother in Christ share his compassion for his people. Please pray that the LORD will stir the hearts of the people in America as we seek to establish direct Church-to-Church Partnerships between Haitian & American churches to minister to the great need.
Wow – great picture, Lanny.
Thanks for being God’s man in Haiti.
May the LORD be with you Lanny and bring supernaturally through people as yourself the answer to their needs.
God bless you and all who have come in His Name