Dear Team,
it is our second day in Haiti and got email up thru a generator and a tower connect..... all the mission guys are making fun of me with Sprint service, which did not work again, even though they told me it would..... so they are all iphoning it, sending pics, talking (ATT dropped all charges until March 1 in Haiti) .........so i am thru complaining and grateful for a home, my family being alive and all the other important things in life.....
We have toured for two days and i guess i can say that the pics we have seen has done justice...but when you are up close and personal to seeing two story buildings that are one story and hear all the stories of where people were when the quake hit....it is mind boggling....
our team went to NEW MISSIONS today and met with Charlie DeTellis (Tim's brother and runs to mission in country). Their area looks like a combat zone.... collasped buildings, Marines/Navy personnel all over the place...... Marines have served 200,000 people in 13 days....... it is amazing to watch the military bring their landing carriers from the huge ships and drop them on the beach at New Missions... helicopters dropping supplies, etc.......
I am still looking for a way to help the people.........you see all the needs, but absolutely no infrastructure to minister.... down every street......great people trying to survive...... nothing like TV is showing,, with riots, etc....out in the countryside about 25 miles from Port au Prince everything is civil and orderly...... met with many Haitian pastors and some of their people......most are under sheets tied to poles, a few of the displace have a plastic tarp and some were fortunate to have their place still standing, but afraid to stay....traffic is very busy in outlying areas but unbelievable in PaP.......it took us 2 hours to go about 15 miles yesterday thru PaP, after a 7 hr drive from Dom Republic to PaP. ......
another full day tomorrow (Thurs) and then back to the D.R. on Friday and back in Orlando about midnight Sat....... thanks for your prayers...
lots of great Disaster Relief folks here in country, trying to figure out how/what volunteers will do...........be praying for them and for the actions our church will take....
we will see if this gets to you.......email went down 2 times while trying to write....
Bill Mitchell
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