Our team has returned home and are slowly returning to their normal routines.
In Haiti, they have had some very strong . Both of our missionaries in Port-au-Prince,
Sherrie and Dorothy, reported that the quakes woke them during the night and they lay
trembling in fear. Please continue to hold this country and these precious friends up in prayer
during this time of reguilding and fear.
Below is an email I just received from Sherrie Fausey
Hello from Haiti,
I have attached a case statement letter telling about our needs. You might be able to print this and share it with your church or group.
The aftershocks continue. We have had 5 aftershocks in 24 hours. Two of them registered 4,7 which is strong enough to wake you up and both of the strongest ones were at night. It keeps everyone jittery and people don't want to sleep. They are afraid of buildings and houses and it has rained a few times. Please keep Haiti in prayer.
People are still living under sheets in tent cities and now they are dealing with mud.
I am so thankful that I am saved and have assurance that I am in God's will and in God's care. Praise the Lord!!!!!!! I wish everyone was.
We have had medical teams come frequently. Praise the Lord!!!!!!! There seems to be no end of medical needs. Jim Hambrick brought a team, then Dr. Mike Hamm brought a team. They all are needed.
Providence School in Jacksonville sent clothes and shoes. Then Food for the Poor gave us some sneakers. Praise the Lord!!!!!!! This helps so much.
Single Purpose Sunday school class sent their Christmas gift for their children t
hey sponsor late so it arrived after the earthquake so they got new shoes too.Praise the Lord!!!!!!!
We added a couple more girls in the orphanage/boarding school. It keeps growing. We now have almost 50 children sleeping here. We have the girls and little boys inside. The big boys are in an army tent because there is not enough room inside. Thank you Lord for the army tent.
Mike and Steve have redesigned the plan for the building in the back section to include a carport and more classrooms than the oroginal design. Praise the Lord!!!!!!!
Prayer needs:
My little truck is 13 years old = a '97 Isuzu pickup and too small. We need a stronger, bigger truck. World Food Program is limiting the amount of free food to how much we can put in the truck. They had planned to give us much more. We also need a bigger truck to handle construction materials.
Please pray for my health. My breathing is still weak and now I have a cold.
Please pray for other permanent missionaries to be able to come here to take part of the load. The ministry has grown and the earthquake added more. God is calling people.
Below is an article I copied about the aftershocks.
God bless you,
Sherrie
In Haiti, they have had some very strong . Both of our missionaries in Port-au-Prince,
Sherrie and Dorothy, reported that the quakes woke them during the night and they lay
trembling in fear. Please continue to hold this country and these precious friends up in prayer
during this time of reguilding and fear.
Below is an email I just received from Sherrie Fausey
Hello from Haiti,
I have attached a case statement letter telling about our needs. You might be able to print this and share it with your church or group.
The aftershocks continue. We have had 5 aftershocks in 24 hours. Two of them registered 4,7 which is strong enough to wake you up and both of the strongest ones were at night. It keeps everyone jittery and people don't want to sleep. They are afraid of buildings and houses and it has rained a few times. Please keep Haiti in prayer.
People are still living under sheets in tent cities and now they are dealing with mud.
I am so thankful that I am saved and have assurance that I am in God's will and in God's care. Praise the Lord!!!!!!! I wish everyone was.
We have had medical teams come frequently. Praise the Lord!!!!!!! There seems to be no end of medical needs. Jim Hambrick brought a team, then Dr. Mike Hamm brought a team. They all are needed.
Providence School in Jacksonville sent clothes and shoes. Then Food for the Poor gave us some sneakers. Praise the Lord!!!!!!! This helps so much.
Single Purpose Sunday school class sent their Christmas gift for their children t
hey sponsor late so it arrived after the earthquake so they got new shoes too.Praise the Lord!!!!!!!We added a couple more girls in the orphanage/boarding school. It keeps growing. We now have almost 50 children sleeping here. We have the girls and little boys inside. The big boys are in an army tent because there is not enough room inside. Thank you Lord for the army tent.
Mike and Steve have redesigned the plan for the building in the back section to include a carport and more classrooms than the oroginal design. Praise the Lord!!!!!!!
Prayer needs:
My little truck is 13 years old = a '97 Isuzu pickup and too small. We need a stronger, bigger truck. World Food Program is limiting the amount of free food to how much we can put in the truck. They had planned to give us much more. We also need a bigger truck to handle construction materials.
Please pray for my health. My breathing is still weak and now I have a cold.
Please pray for other permanent missionaries to be able to come here to take part of the load. The ministry has grown and the earthquake added more. God is calling people.
Below is an article I copied about the aftershocks.
God bless you,
Sherrie
Haiti on edge after steady aftershocks
Reuters
By PAISLEY DODDS Paisley Dodds – 1 hr 51 mins ago
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti was rocked by a second series of aftershocks on Tuesday, toppling some structures damaged in the deadly earthquake last month and raising tensions among Haitians already on edge.
The magnitude-4.7 quake rattled the capital at 1:26 a.m. (0626 GMT), followed some seven minutes later by a smaller aftershock whose magnitude was still unknown, according to Eric Calais, a geophysicist from Purdue University who is studying seismic activity in Haiti.
Another aftershock measuring magnitude 4.7 struck on Monday, and it was followed by two other small tremors. They struck near the epicenter of the Jan. 12 earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people.
The U.S. Geological Survey usually detects Haitian quakes of magnitude 4 and above, but smaller tremors often are not detected due to a lack of seismometers in Haiti.
"It's important that people stay cautious," Calais said. "In the next three months, there's a significant risk that there will be an aftershock larger than 4.7."
Some walls that had toppled in last month's quake spilled on to the street Tuesday and damaged telephone polls split in half. There were no reports of injuries.
"It feels like the Earth is shaking all the time since last month," said Ermithe Josephe, 48, who is still sleeping outside in a tent next to her crumpled house. "We can't sleep with all of these aftershocks and we're too afraid to go to work sometimes."
Last month's earthquake occurred along the east-west Enriquillo Fault, where two pieces of earth's crust slide by each other in opposite directions.
Scientists are still concerned over whether the January earthquake released enough energy along that fault to ease the threat of more major quakes there. They are also concerned about another fault line in the north — the one that caused a 1842 quake that flattened Cap-Haitien, Haiti's second largest city.
That fault runs from northwestern Haiti to the Dominican Republic and onto land in the Dominican city of Santiago, the second-largest city in the Dominican Republic with some 800,000 people.
"It's that fault that's accumulated more strain," said Paul Mann, a geologist from University of Texas who arrived in Haiti on Monday with a team to survey coastal uplifting caused by last month's quake.
More than 56 aftershocks of magnitude 4 or greater have shuddered through Haiti's shattered capital since last month.
On Jan. 26, four people were trapped when a building collapsed on them, and on Feb. 9, a magnitude-4 aftershock shook loose debris at a shattered supermarket, trapping several more.
Sherrie Fausey
Christian Light Foundation
LETS KEEP PRAYING FOR HAITI.
IN HIS LOVE,
Donna
Reuters
By PAISLEY DODDS Paisley Dodds – 1 hr 51 mins ago
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti was rocked by a second series of aftershocks on Tuesday, toppling some structures damaged in the deadly earthquake last month and raising tensions among Haitians already on edge.
The magnitude-4.7 quake rattled the capital at 1:26 a.m. (0626 GMT), followed some seven minutes later by a smaller aftershock whose magnitude was still unknown, according to Eric Calais, a geophysicist from Purdue University who is studying seismic activity in Haiti.
Another aftershock measuring magnitude 4.7 struck on Monday, and it was followed by two other small tremors. They struck near the epicenter of the Jan. 12 earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people.
The U.S. Geological Survey usually detects Haitian quakes of magnitude 4 and above, but smaller tremors often are not detected due to a lack of seismometers in Haiti.
"It's important that people stay cautious," Calais said. "In the next three months, there's a significant risk that there will be an aftershock larger than 4.7."
Some walls that had toppled in last month's quake spilled on to the street Tuesday and damaged telephone polls split in half. There were no reports of injuries.
"It feels like the Earth is shaking all the time since last month," said Ermithe Josephe, 48, who is still sleeping outside in a tent next to her crumpled house. "We can't sleep with all of these aftershocks and we're too afraid to go to work sometimes."
Last month's earthquake occurred along the east-west Enriquillo Fault, where two pieces of earth's crust slide by each other in opposite directions.
Scientists are still concerned over whether the January earthquake released enough energy along that fault to ease the threat of more major quakes there. They are also concerned about another fault line in the north — the one that caused a 1842 quake that flattened Cap-Haitien, Haiti's second largest city.
That fault runs from northwestern Haiti to the Dominican Republic and onto land in the Dominican city of Santiago, the second-largest city in the Dominican Republic with some 800,000 people.
"It's that fault that's accumulated more strain," said Paul Mann, a geologist from University of Texas who arrived in Haiti on Monday with a team to survey coastal uplifting caused by last month's quake.
More than 56 aftershocks of magnitude 4 or greater have shuddered through Haiti's shattered capital since last month.
On Jan. 26, four people were trapped when a building collapsed on them, and on Feb. 9, a magnitude-4 aftershock shook loose debris at a shattered supermarket, trapping several more.
Sherrie Fausey
Christian Light Foundation
LETS KEEP PRAYING FOR HAITI.
IN HIS LOVE,
Donna
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