Hi,
It is Tuesday night, January 26th. We left tyler on Monday afternoon to Orlando then drove 4 hours down to Fort Pierce where we are catching a missionary flight with Missionary Flights International Tuesday morning.
I am more excited than usual because we might be flying to Haiti on a
DC-3! Yes you heard right a WWII plane that was around before my dad was born.
When we got there we queued up wit several hundred other Christians seeking to get in and assist the first responders. There was every major NGO there, Samaritan's Purse, World Vision, MTI, Baptist Missions, and a whole host of others. As promissed there was DC-3's, but my group went on a turbo prop donated by Joe Gibb's Racing Team. We all crammed in with our backpacks full of energy bars and anti-mosquito devices and headed off to Haiti.
Flying to Haiti was beautiful until we came in for landing. The airport is now a militarized base with most aircraft being military aircraft. As we approached it looked as if the city was burning, but this was just the cement dust be blown by the wind.
It is Tuesday night, January 26th. We left tyler on Monday afternoon to Orlando then drove 4 hours down to Fort Pierce where we are catching a missionary flight with Missionary Flights International Tuesday morning.
I am more excited than usual because we might be flying to Haiti on a
DC-3! Yes you heard right a WWII plane that was around before my dad was born.
When we got there we queued up wit several hundred other Christians seeking to get in and assist the first responders. There was every major NGO there, Samaritan's Purse, World Vision, MTI, Baptist Missions, and a whole host of others. As promissed there was DC-3's, but my group went on a turbo prop donated by Joe Gibb's Racing Team. We all crammed in with our backpacks full of energy bars and anti-mosquito devices and headed off to Haiti.
Flying to Haiti was beautiful until we came in for landing. The airport is now a militarized base with most aircraft being military aircraft. As we approached it looked as if the city was burning, but this was just the cement dust be blown by the wind.
As far as I can see the Haitian government no longer exists, it wasn't much to start with but now it is completely destroyed. Police, military and firemen are either dead or looking for their own family members. Even the UN forces stationed here under MUNISTAH have suffered massive loss to its senior leadership. As we drove the 20 miles to Mission of Hope we were struck by the devistation and the smell of death that wafted in the air.
Pray for these people, it would not be an exageration to say that every family here lost someone.
The depth and loss of these people is unimaginable.
Mark - Out
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