Haiti, January 19, 2010

Yesterday, YWAM'ers in Port-au-Prince came upon people seeking help and a four-month-old child was discovered pinned under a building. Our rescue team from YWAM sprang into action, and after some time the child was removed from the rubble and rushed to a makeshift hospital with a large cut on her head. Once there everyone tried to find a responsible person. After asking where the baby's mother was, the people with them said she was still under the building. The YWAMers rushed back to hear people saying that the mother was under the building, dead. Our YWAMers began to dig. To everyone's surprise they found her alive! She was extremely dehydrated and will need hospital care but it seems she will recover.

YWAM St. Marc gym has become a makeshift recovery ward for the overflowing hospital. Yesterday, a doctor asked one of our YWAMers, "What are they going to do with all these orphans?" He claimed that none of the children at our center had known living parents and the orphanage caretaker was not in the country. "Would YWAM take these children?" he asked.

One of our volunteers spoke with one young boy who was actually thought to be dead. He had already been placed in the morgue with the dead. After the door was closed, morgue workers heard knocking and were shocked to see that this young boy was still alive!

Strategies are forming on how to best cope and minister during this situation. It is very intense and difficult, but let us all pray for the children of Haiti.

I want to thank everyone for your giving and your prayers. They have been a source of strength and encouragement along with the presence of God with us.

Taking the High Places!

Terry W. Snow
National Director
YWAM Haiti