Haiti Updates

Yesterday we got to see the miracle of God’s drastic healing power in the most obvious undeniable way. On Tuesday a boy came to the clinic who had fallen on his back. He was suffering from severe back pain. He could hardly walk and when I asked him to bend forward he even cried from the pain. His face showed the severity of his pain. I felt up his vertebrae and it indeed felt out of place. After explaining that to him I said,
“I can’t fix your back. But I do know who can. Do you know who?”
“No.”
“God. Jesus.” I described our God’s power and asked if he believed God could heal him. He said yes, but unenthused. I prayed over him and had him try bending again. Still painful. I prayed again. Then had some of the medical team members pray over him. When we left he road back on the truck with us for me to give him a back brace and wrap it up tight before sending him back to his tent city, still gloomy and walking very painfully.

But yesterday….after an exhausting morning of morbile tent city clinic, after my brain was fried and my patience tried,  this same boy came up to me with the HUGEST grin on his face. He proudly lifted up his shirt to show me his back brace. I instantly realized…
“Oh my word! You’re better?! You don’t have any pain? None?! Bend over”  (He bent over with quick ease. “Wow! You’re healed!!!”  When the rest of the team saw him move and smile everyone applauded the miracle of God. It was terrific !
“Do you know who healed you?” I asked
“Sabrina, you.”
“No…not me…”
“Jesus?”
“Yes! Jesus Healed you!” Oh it was so beautiful it was amazing. When we started driving away he came up to RUN beside the truck. Wow. From hardly able to move to running. That’s incredible. That’s our God.

The buildings are going up quick! How rewarding, to see all that hard labor and hold ups for so many months, all the planning and preparing finally take form. Beautiful. Chadd is more enthused than ever, taking charge of the construction team and driven by the visual product of his blueprint. And we get to be a part of this. Thank you Lord.

November 12, 2010 Friday

Well, we are soon to complete our first week back at in Carrefour. Chadd and I arrived Tuesday morning and set right to task greeting the exclaiming welcomes and setting up our new wonderful shed home. We walked to visit Biernie first thing. Junie delivered her baby at the Carrefour Maternity Hospital and is living in a separate shack. Chadd picked up Biernie first. She has the same weak cry and has lost all the weight she gained while spending the days with us. She is weak and hardly interactive but may faintly recognize us. She laid her head on Chadd’s shoulder and put her little arms on his neck. Wow, how a little girl can so pull at your heart.

We have a team of 18 here now from Lancaster. The community center on our land is up with tin walls and roof. The cement flooring and final touches are to be finished in time. We now have a two bowel real sink (with drain into a 5-gallon bucket). This crew has done a lot! The medical team ran a mobile clinic at the large camp by the shore everyday. It’s a bit more organized with nicer tarp structured homes and a tent with benches for us to see patients under. But the illnesses, need, and anger when the day is over and they haven’t been seen are still there!

So, Cholera has hit Carrefour. A woman from MSF approached me today at the camp and gave the run-down of the recent epidemic. They have found ~20 cases in Carrefour and 8 cases in our immediate area. 3000 total cases in Haiti with 800 deaths. She directed and we will up the scale on our clinic hygiene with hand washing stations on entry into the tent. Despite the bleak situation she painted, we have a God who is greater, who does not give us the excuse to be lazy and naïve but who gives us the privilege of abandoning fear. Thank you for joining us in prayer for protection.

Lillian’s family just arrived moments ago. All in for 27 people at camp this weekend!! Oh it’s so good being the camp newly weds though. We get to turn in to our lovely private honeymoon shed J Goodnight!

-Sabrina YODER!!