Yesterday there was a story on NBC Nightly News about a five story grocery store that had collapsed during the earthquake in Haiti. A man was outside the store fully convinced his wife was alive inside and a group of rescuers from Turkey were working hard to try to free her. I was hoping they would follow up on the story and they did. They reported tonight that an American search & rescue team joined the Turkish team and were digging through the rubble. They haven’t found the woman yet but they are working on it. Also, and this is amazing, someone received a text message from inside the building saying that there were 60 people with him trapped in a void waiting to be rescued. 60 people!!! Isn’t that amazing???
Here is a link to the story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/34898377#34898377
This brings such hope. Not only hope for the people of Haiti but hope for victims of future earthquakes. The rescuers from Turkey are convinced people can be saved even this long after the earthquake because they had pulled a 13 year old girl out of a collapsed building at the last major earthquake seven days after the earthquake. They know that it is possible to rescue the victims. So they are continuing the search. And, if they rescue 60 people after so many days, then, at the next earthquake, they will work that much harder and longer to rescue people.
I know that this is only one small part of what is going on in Haiti. But it is impossible to report on everything and every victim. Not only impossible but it would be overwhelming. But knowing that this is one small part and knowing that hope lives on, I pray that the rescuers won’t give up. I pray that they will keep searching even when they get nothing but silence from inside the buildings. And I pray that the people of Haiti will cling to the hope that help is coming and they will be saved.
That is the other problem in Haiti. Lack of communication. They have no homes, no power, no TV, no radio. They don’t know the massive global initiative that is mobilizing to help them. They don’t know the massive amounts of aid heading towards them. So I pray that God will put it on their hearts. That He will comfort them and give them peace. That He will give them hope that help is coming. Because it is. Soon.
Continue to pray for hope for Haiti. Please pray. Continually. Unceasingly. Pray.
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