Thank you Pix.

Please join us prayers for all the victims of the storms each morning at
9:00 and each evening at 9:00.

Bonnie Elam


-----Original Message-----
From: Pix Mahler [mailto:pix@...]
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 10:06 AM
To: Maria Arroyo; HSCENEWS YAHOO GROUP; Claire Barry; HAE; Joan and Paul
Mclain
Cc: Bishop Duracin; Kesner Ajax; katiehaiti; Bonnie Elam; Gerald Harner;
Toby Jones; Neil Dunnavant; Jane Carney
Subject: flooding in Haiti, the Haitian people need your prayers

This is from Mark Hare's mother.
Mark is a PCUSA mission personnel in Papaye (near Hinche in the
central plateau.)


Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Catherine Hare" <harecf@...>
> Date: September 3, 2008 9:36:18 AM EDT
>
> Subject: Fw: fooding in Haiti, the Haitian people need your prayers
>
> It looks like I have sent this prayer request to a huge number of
> people. Read through this report from Haiti, and you will see
> why. Haiti is a country with people with so many basic needs, and
> from the looks of it, things are pretty bad! We talked by phone
> with Mark Hare last week, and they had had no wind or rain where he
> was. It looks like things have changed. The number of people
> affected by storms will never be know!
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> Catherine
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Keith W. Hare
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 9:11 AM
> Subject: FW: fooding in Haiti, the Haitian people need your prayers
>
>
>
> From: Tracee Karaffa [mailto:healingartmissions@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 9:09 AM
> Re: People need your prayers
>
> Below is a message sent to me from our Dumay Clinic
> Ophthalmologist...the clinic was forced to close for one week
> during Gustav flooding, and the flooding appears to be getting
> worse by the hour. The desperate people calling form their
> rooftops in Gonaive are now likely dead.
> How do people, barely surviving, on the edge, bounce back from
> loosing their crops and homes? They need our prayers now and
> financial support in the very near future.....please read:
>
> Tracee Karaffa
> 311 N. Pearl St., Granville, OH 43023
> home(740)587-0632 , work(740)587-0870
> cell(740)507-2343 , fax(740)587-0878
> web site: www.healingartmissions.org
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brigitte Hudicourt
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 8:50 PM
>
>
> My internet is still working but I do not know for how long and How
> long the weither will hold it.
>
> I has been raining over Haiti for the last 24 hours. Sometime like
> a shower with a good pressure sometime its stops for while to start
> again. In Port au Prince we had a brake around lunch but then the
> light became very strange and we had some wind. I was so scarry
> that people started to run in the meedle of the streetes and some
> drivers started to go in the wrong direction in one way streetes.
>
> I was coming from the office where I had been doing some
> administrative work and the security came to tell us to move our
> cars from under the trees I decided to go home and as I was driving
> in the stress trying to avoid areas with trees. I strated to be
> scare of hiting pedestrians or being hit by other.. Finally between
> tree, electrical and phone wires and poles I made it to Hopital la
> Communaute to see two emergencies. As I was there one of the nurses
> got a call from a nurse IN Gonaive Crying because she was on a roof
> with her parents and water had reached them.It is terrible people
> are calling from all over the country about flood and house being
> carried away. We never expected that tropical strom to just stand
> just on the Island just a week after Gustave had spent 18 hours on us.
>
> Hanna just stop, At five AM it was moving at 2 miles an hours and
> by 3 pm it had stop.right on Tuck and Cacos Island . Those Islands
> are so close to the northwest that people go there on saleboat from
> Port-de-Paix.
>
> The whole Island is under rain and the north has also the winds
>
> It is flooded from Jeremie to Port-de Paix > I talked to Jacques
> this Morning around ten they were under heavyrain and wind.in Saint
> Louis du Nord He said all the Banana three were on the ground.
>
> THis means that next month people will be more hungry. In Chansolme
> THe rivers flooded and carriied away houses. My secretary in the St
> Marc office call me an hour ago to tell me that his street was
> starting to be flooded. Rapport are coming in from all over' flood
> and still raining'.. The worse is in Gonaive were they already had
> three meters ( 10 feets) this lunch. People are on roof tops of two
> level houses.
>
> PLEASE START PRAYING FOR US AND WITH US as soon as you get this.
> Start chains of prayers it is still raining on ue and IKe is not
> far behind . My heart is bleeding with every drop on rain. We never
> know in Haiti really how many pleople are taken by the water. And
> it happen anywhere because people lack of information. Last week
> the lady that sells artichock to my vegetable vendor was taken by
> water in the mountains by POrt-au-Prince by a flash flood going
> down the hill.
>
> I am safe at Home listening to the rain in the dark. We have
> baterries, and generators, i am on top of a hill but if it keeps on
> raininng there will be mud slides with houses around the city.
>
> For people that know the geographics
>
> - Cayes
>
> - Gonaives
>
> - The area around Jeremie
>
> - Some parts of St Marc
>
> - The airport in Port-de-Paix
>
> - Jacmel was already flooded last week
>
> - The road to the DR and some part on le cul de sac were already
> flooded since last week
>
> This was from lunch knew
>
> Pierre Payen on the way to St Marc from this morning
>
> And it is still raining.
>
> PLEASE PRAY
>
> Brigitte
>

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