Good morning, everyone.

I am sending you some new pictures that I just got, showing the area in which we have worked in Haiti. Petit Gaove devastated by the earthquake that struck Haiti Many of these sites are so familiar, and I can barely believe what I am seeing!

Last night the team in our church that had planned to go to Haiti in six weeks met, primarily to allow us to talk about all that we are feeling and to pray together for this tragic people! We had a good and I hope encouraging meeting. We have postponed the trip indefinitely, with much reluctance, I might add. I believe that if I had said I had an airplane waiting, the entire team would have said, "Let's go." We know, however, that going would only satisfy our need to be there. We can do little right now to help.

We are, however, sending a large check to my friend in South Florida to fill a container and ship it to Petit Goave, for distribution to the people in that town, in Carrenage, and in Olivier. Those are the three places in which we have worked during the past two years. We are also going to send personal bags of things like soap, bath cloths, tooth brushes, etc. to be given to the people in those areas as well. With much faith that we are not promising more than we can accomplish, we are promising that we will send 1000 bags to these folks. Janet, Kim, and I will probably take the bags to Miami during the week of February 1, and the shipment will go during that week also. Montreuil, my Haitian friend in Homestead, will go to Petit Goave (SOMEHOW!) to see that these supplies get into the right hands!

Continue to pray for us as we work. We feel so far away, but I am encouraged as God keeps bringing people to me who have contacts who can help us reach the folks there or do the things that we need to do.

I am so encouraged as I realize how widespread is the love and concern for my precious Haitian friends. God bless you as you pray and as you help me and others do from a distance what we cannot do in person.