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This is the latest blog from Jeremy, one of the team members that work with Jay & Diana. Please read. Please pray.

“We got 10 gallons of gas left for the generator and there is no more gas in Cabaret.

There is no gas in Port-au-Prince.

Food and water are very scarce.

Prices for everything have

Charles went to PAP today. He could barely describe what he saw, “The flood was nothing.” He said that the houses on the side of the mountains either collapsed or completely fell through the ground as the ravine opened up. He said road were blocked by piles of dead people pulled from the wreckage. Our school in PAP collapsed on itself, they think people are still inside but no one can help. Most government buildings, a lot of the U.N. force and many, many people… gone. As the earthquake passed through yesterday, any infustructure Haiti had… gone. “PAP is down… everything… no food, no water, no gas, no help.”

I can’t sleep. I keep having this dream of falling and violently wake up.
Our medical clinic was packed all day, still is. It is a very bloody scene. Compound fractures, giant gashes and they keep flooding in. On beds, backs, wood. They are now getting here from PAP, at least a 20 mile hike.

The team from Savannah has a man named Jose who is an engineer for Gulf Streamliners. Friday morning, the team will have a military convoy escorting them to PAP and they will fly out on one of those planes. 14 seats, 14 savannahians.

We still don’t know what will happen next here. We just keep trying to help people in the clinic. I think the plane coming will bring us some aid.

We need intentional prayers. Contact your friends, get together and pray hard. PAP prolly will turn in a refugee camp whenever help finally gets here. There are many dead and far more dying.

I’ve never felt sorrow like this.

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I just took an hour break from writing. Another huge aftershock. Everyone ran out of the house.

I think this sorrow is making me physically sick. The Earth keeps moving. My head keeps spinning.

I feel so much distress that my heart physically hurts and seems to skip beats.

I switch from tears to goosebumps, back and forth.

Latest News: It is gunna get too dangerous here, we are gunna try and get out…”

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Below is an email my cousin sent out to his support team. Please continue to pray

“Hey friends and family,

Some of you have already heard from us, but I wanted to let everyone on our mailing list know that we are alive and surviving here in Haiti. It is hard to say we are doing well, because many of our friends have had their houses destroyed, and others have still not found many of their family members, and across this country, the devastation is great.

Still we are grateful to be alive, and that all of the orphans are ok. They are all still very afraid, and many have been crying or wimpering since the earthquake. And the ground keeps shaking, making it difficult to convince them it will not happen again. Please pray for them, and this country if you think about it. The sun went down shortly after the quake, and much damage is still unknown. We fear the worst, and yet we have great hope that God will sustain.

For a little more description on the earthquake itself, you can look at our blog at jayanddiana.weebly.com.

Thanks for loving us. We love you.
Jay”

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Haiti was hit by a massive earthquake today. My cousins are living and working at an orphanage in Haiti. When I saw the news break on MSN today, my heart literally stopped beating. It was so close to where they were. It’s things like this that really put life into perspective. The things I was worried about this morning suddenly don’t matter as much after hearing of the destruction in a country that’s not so far from us.

I’ve attached the link to Jeremy’s blog below. Jeremy works with Jay & Diana in Haiti and the blog he wrote is extremely moving. Please pray for Jay, Diana, Jeremy, Kyle, & Shannon.
http://jershurk.weebly.com/index.html

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I titled this blog “Life is a Journey” b/c that’s truly how I view my life. Every part of my life is orchestrated and put there for a reason. I know that it seems I am never in one place for very long. To some it is taken as discontentment, to others it is seen as an adventuresome spirit.

Right now, I have a decision to make that I’m not going to share until it’s final. In the meantime, please keep me in your thoughts and prayers.

Thanks

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In the last 2 weeks, I’ve received sad news from friends situated all over the US. A friend’s mother is battling stage 4 breast cancer, a friend’s father passed away, a friend’s adoption did not go through, a friend’s brother passing away, my uncle passing away…

All of this has led me to realize how much of a broken world we live in. It is not His intention for us to suffer but because of the fall of Eden, this is what we must endure until we are gone from this world. Our hearts hurt and our mind wants to know WHY as we process through everything.

Please pray for my friends

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It’s true what they say..the older you get, the faster time flies. I look back on the last 10 years and they have certainly flown. The last year in itself was a whirlwind and had anyone told me this time last year what would happen to me, I probably would’ve laughed at them. I look back on the person I was a year ago and am grateful that God can use anyone and turn them around for His good. He took this person-me-and flipped everything upside down so that I would learn my only hope is in Him. He reminded me that I can’t do anything on my own w/o His help, even when I think that I can.

Right now I am certainly in a place internally that would be best described as “limbo.” There are many things I still want to do and places I want to go. I still have a desire to go back to school and get another degree in….something. It’s an odd feeling to be unsettled and content at the same time.

2009 was a year of complete revamping and change in my life. My hope for 2010 is that the revamping and change will see its place in 2010.

Happy New Year

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