Return to Haiti...

Help is arriving, but much more is needed

For the survivors, food, money & resources are depleting quickly

Entire hospitals are in the streets without as much as a tent for shelter

People are delivered to the make-shift street clinics in everything from jeeps to wheelbarrows

Homes, businesses, and public buildings were torn apart

It is not uncomon to cart large loads around by hand... this is now a solomn task

The city is in chaos

Dear Friends,

Even with the foreign aid pouring in from all sides, Haiti still needs our helping hands, our fervent prayers and our christian love demonstrated to them in a real, tangible and material way as they struggle through the hours, days, weeks, months and even years to come. It is difficult to even begin to describe the devastation, pain and suffering that I saw there in Haiti last week, but what was even more astonishing to me personally was the faith and reliance on God that I saw lived out there in the tent-city relocation camps. Around the clock, they have been preaching and singing God's praises. At the camp where we stayed in Carrefour, as well as in many if not all of the other camps there, everyone sang, prayed, & preached for over an hour three times between 10 pm and 6 am. Instead of the resentment or disbelief that you might think a disaster like this could produce, all I heard there were praises and prayers of supplication. They are glad to be alive. They are waiting on the Lord for what follows… yes, even for their next meal.

Since the big quake over a week ago, there have been many smaller tremors, falling debris, crumbling buildings, injuries and loss of life. Over the next few months, we could possibly see the death toll more than double from infections, the still falling buildings, unsanitary living conditions and the epidemics of pestilence and disease likely to follow this recent tragedy. Care must be taken to address the issues of sanitation & medical care in the densely populated areas of Haiti. The job is not done, the task has only begun.

Please pray for the on-going relief efforts in Haiti as you seek God's leading on how to respond to this. My father and I will be joined by my brother and sister, along with a few other volunteers visiting from the U.S. as we return tonight with tarps, tents, rope and other supplies needed for shelter from the rains which are bound to fall sooner or later. In addition to bringing these much needed supplies, we will be planning & setting up for our involvement there over the next few months. Please lift us, our safety, and the work that we are going to do up in prayer this weekend.

A couple of things have been in the works here around the office this week:

1. You can now donate via Paypal

2. We have a domain & hosting. Within days, the new webpage will be up and running. The future online homepage is:

www.cdmmissions.org

(for the time being the bulk of the info will be going up here on

www.christiandominicanmedicalmission.blogspot.org)

Please use our forwarding agent, Dean Willett's address to send a donation in by mail:

Dr. Dean Willett

676 Grassy Hill Rd.

Summerville, SC 29483-5365

Thank you and God Bless,

David Klein