THE EARTHQUAKE- WE ARE SAFE

Where to even begin...

tuesday we had an Earthquake here in Port Au Prince, Haiti. WE ARE OK...PRAISE THE LORD. the earthquake was a 7.3 in strength...i have never experienced anything like it. I still haven't even processed it all or have any idea if i can process all i have seen in the last 72 hours. i will do my best to give as much information that i can, but bare with me as for some reason i am a bit shaky recounting the events right now.

if this is too much for you to read stop. when i look back i have given more information than a heart can sometimes handle...but Please know that we are OK and to just keep praying...we have no idea what will come next in this crisis. but also KNOW that God is Good and i know that when we believe in Him, trust in Him, focus on Him and rely on Him...He always comes through.

So at around 4:50PM Dorothy, Amanda (my sister), and I were about 20 feet away from the hospital to drop Dorothy off to stay with Poutchino for the night when it happened. But God had His angels with us. We were in the perfect place not around any tall buildings and so close to the hospital entrance...we just pulled in. at first we thought it was a bomb but then the car start to rock back and forth like it was in the ocean. as Dorothy pulled in I saw Sr. Jesula in shock on her way to the ground...i jumped out went over to her...help her land softly and all she could muster out is...poutchino, ale ale...i ran into the hospital to the top floor and saw he was ok...started praying and loving him...a nurse came said he's ok and gave me his IV and we got him out. from there it only gets worse...with people coming in from the streets, banging on the gate to get in, after trimmers, people mourning and dying. the parking lot had become the hospital, clinic and morge.

BUT KNOW GOD IS SO GOOD...He provided and protected in ways i cant even express. we had drinks and food in the car as dorothy was staying the night. we were in a safe secure place...we didn't find out about Dorothy's house and the kids until wednesday around noon...all safe and sound. PRAISE GOD! while there i spend practically 24 hours in the car holding poutchino, singing and praying with sr. jesula, while Amanda and Dorothy went around helping Doctors with the flash light we had...i think all of us saw things and did things we never imagined, but GOD GAVE US THE STRENGTH TO DO IT ALL!

around the same time the next day we were able to leave the parking lot and go home, we took poutchino although he needs the hospital we all wanted to be together and didn't know how to work the details of that out quite yet. the drive home...again God protected us! Seeing everything is hard...people said Haiti, PAP was on a big fault line and if it ever really hit it would be big and it was. the phones are down and stores aren't open...so many of them have fallen. from what we hear its just in the city, port...the countryside and other cities are fine. but we were in formed by Karen Bultje (a fellow missionary) that its estimated to be 100,000 are known dead so far. its a small number in terms of a city with 4 million people, but each one of them was a child, brother, sister, mother, father, friend...a person...someone who our Father in heaven made and loves. pray for their families.

i have never seen so many people on the streets...carrying all they have in their hands... buildings crushed..people searching for loved ones...but i must tell you i have also never heard and seen so many people praising the Lord...on their knees, on their face, raising hands, screaming, singing....thanking Him for protecting their own lives or the lives of their family...asking for forgiveness....and praying for protection.

i am probably giving too much detail...but even in all i have given its...limited to the reality here. PRAY FOR US! PRAY FOR HAITI! PRAY FOR THE LEADERS! PRAY FOR THE WORLD TO JOIN TOGETHER! PRAY FOR PROVISIONS! PRAY FOR PEACE! PRAY FOR RESTORATION! PRAY FOR HOPE!

so from here what to tell you...we are sleeping outside underneath a blanket of beautiful stars...i have no communication...don't know who is working for me at the coffee shop...or when i will have a flight back to Georgia. i don't know if my sister got home when i dropped her off at the airport thursday morning (just found out that the american military has taken control of the airport...so my sister should be in good hands)...don't know so much...we are doing are best to conserve our resources...but thank the lord God has given us a large amount. the clinic in the neighborhood...we were able to give a trunk, and about 4 boxes or so full of medicines, bandages etc. to help. when karen came by she brought us many boxes of pop tarts...so we are eating those for breakfast...God is doing so much good...in a time that could be full of despair.PRAY AGAINST SATAN AS HE WILL TRY TO MAKE PEOPLE FEEL HOPELESS.

Thank you for the prayers i already know are coming our way...we feel them and are so grateful.

i don't know if we will be able to get on internet again...or anything about our communications...so just keep praying and trust that the Lord is taking care of us. if you feel lead to donate or send money dorothy's way...please contact Much Ministries, Inc. or Christian Light Foundation.

there is so much to tell...things i have left out...please feel free to go to dorothys blog as she has posted too and she probably put things i have forgotten.

blessings to each of you. Gods grace and mercy. <3 <3 <3
Natasha Rae Taylor