Thursday, January 14, 2010

An Inside look at Haiti

Heather and I visited the personal website of an MAF family in Haiti the night before the earthquake. We browsed through many of their photos from Haiti and we spent some time praying for them. So we were a little extra surprised when we heard the initial news of the earthquake the next day, and we had fresh images in our minds of them and the people of their country. Heather and I just re-visited their website thinking that of course there would be no new posts since the earthquake. But MAF managed to get satellite internet set up there and they had made a couple of posts. Their names are Jason and Willemien, and they have a baby boy named Jayden. Willemien had posted a couple of lengthy first person accounts of their experiences during and since the earthquake. She communicated it in a very engaging way and Heather and I were fastened to the computer screen as we read it. Here's a link to Jason and Willemien's blog if you want to read it yourself.