- PRAY FOR THE PEOPLE OF CAZALE, HAITI -

the friends of ours that are missionaries in cazale, haiti (lori & licia) posted this on their blogs tonight - please be praying with/for them as they've already got things they deal with daily that are above anything that we can even begin to think about, but now they've got this to deal with - they run a rescue mission there & help/treat people with anything/everything you can imagine - they share the love of jesus with everyone they meet & are doing such a good work there - my sister (madisyn) & niece (loudnie) live there with them until their adoptions are complete & they can come home - they're all safe, but after this that happened yesterday (posted below), many were killed & lives have been destroyed (more so then normal)

"Thursday, October 11, 2007 I'm going to post the pictures of the river & road. Licia will post the pictures of the houses & people. I'll try to post the video this weekend sometime. To clarify, this was in Cabaret. It's a village about a 45 minute drive away, but we must pass through it to get to the bigger towns. We're safe. The kids are safe. Cazale hardly even got any rain. This river's not Cazale's river. It's from a valley on the other side of a mountain range. These wire cages (on the right) are called gabions. They're filled with rocks & then tied (with wire) together to form a barrier. They're used to be a road from the destroyed gabions to all the way over to the left. This huge hole's making travel by car, motocycle & horse impossible. People can walk over to the side & pass single file. If we want to leave Cazale, we can drive to this point, get out & walk across & then rent a tap-tap on the other side. This' going to take months to get fixed & might not ever get fixed. The government hasn't said a thing or come up with a plan. There are 18 dead & missing that we heard of - probably more. There were so many houses destroyed! Licia will show you more of that. This' a big deal for us here & nothing this massive has happened in our area for long while. These people are so poor to begin with & then this it's almost too much to bear. One guy said, "I didn't even have time to save a spoon from my house. It's gone. All gone. What am I going to do now. I've nothing."

- Lori - [keep smilin']