Can You Hear It?

Posted by Chris Brennemann with Blessing Hearts International for Dee Dorce':

Dee has traveled to the states to bring their three children and her mother Reta back to Iowa. It was just best for their safety and well-being to get them to the states for now.
We sent e-mail updates to everyone on our mailing list, so please send me an e-mail if you want to receive those updates: cbrennemann@hlg.edu

Keep praying and believing.

Following is a narrative written by a college-age mission team member who visited Haiti and worked with Dorce' Ministries and plans to return again this year:

HAITI

Wailing fills the streets for days on end. The stench of death permeates the air, an unnecessary reminder of the tragedy here. Ruins all around. What little they had is now gone. Some have fled the city. But some are so terrified, so traumatized, that they cannot bring themselves to leave the remnants of what they know. So they wait. They stay with their “belongings” and wait for someone to come rescue them. They wait for someone who will not come.

Those cities, those streets used to be filled with noise. Car horns honking as they blaze through on a one-lane road. Music blaring, lively and full. Buying and selling at the market ... the streets were packed.

Although these are an understandably sober people (their lot in life has never been easy) … hints of joy could be found; smiles lighting up simple faces. Shouts of joy, songs of praise, claps of excitement ... But not today. Not since that day. Where once there was shouting, now there is silence. A thick, heavy silence. The people don’t know what to do ... They are lost and scared. They were long forgotten before this disaster.

Now with the earthquake, eyes have turned to the people of Haiti. We have responded as we should, flooding relief organizations and missions with funds and supplies. We have raised up the people of Haiti in prayer at every church service, every small group, every prayer meeting. We even held ceremonies in honor of those impacted by this tragedy.

Now – two weeks after the initial 7.2 magnitude earthquake that rocked Port-au-Prince to its core – it’s easy to forget again. Life in the United States moves on. We continue about our business as usual again – wake up, eat breakfast, get the kids ready for school, go to work, eat lunch, pick up the kids, get home, fix dinner, homework, housework, bedtime ... But may we not forget what we have seen and heard. May we never forget our dear brothers and sisters in Christ living in Haiti. We must not turn away again.

For perhaps ... Perhaps we were saved - we came to Christ - for such a time as this. To bring our brothers and sisters before Him. To pray for revival to overtake this country. This is what it’s all about – being a family, bearing each other’s burdens, praying for the lost and scared and dying.

Haiti waits in quiet unrest, an eerie hush. The silence is deafening ... Can you hear it? Do you care? Will you help?



by Carrie Thompson, HLG Mission Team 2009/2010
© Blessing Hearts International, 2010



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