First is Jesse and Kacy. Here they are with their two boys.
They are some of our best buddies from the states. They are also an amazing part of our ministry and our lives. How God brought our families together is really cool. That's a blog for another day. Jesse leaves today for Haiti. He is part of a group that is going (for a week) to help an orphanage.
Please pray for his, and the group's, safety and that as they help, in any way possible, that they can share, show and be the love of Christ to every person they come in contact with.
We also would ask for prayers for my cousin Andy and his wife Jeanne. Wish I had a current picture of these guys so you could put a face with your prayers but I don't have one. They too have been an incredible part of this ministry. They have been with our family from the first day we felt a calling to come to Brasil. We feel very close to them even though we don't get to see them very much. I could also do a blog about them and how God has intertwined our lives over the years and through thousands of miles. Another blog for another day.
They are also very special to us.
For the last few years they have been sponsoring a couple of kids at an orphanage in Haiti. The kids' names are James and Pharah.
We emailed them after the earthquake hit and found out that both of the kids were fine.
After years of praying and asking God if adopting them would be the right thing to do, God gave, through this disaster, a confirmation to both of them that they needed to adopt James and Pharah. God has given them peace about this big decision.
Because of the way things are happening right now it looks like this process will be greatly speeded up and there is a possibility that the kids can by with Andy and Jeanne within a few weeks.
Yesterday Jeanne sent out an email that shared what the day to day life is like for James and Pharah. She said, "Andy and I have been grieving the losses in Haiti. The World Relief building we went to each visit was destroyed...but the Morquette's home and the orphanage and new hospital had little damage. James and Pharah are ok...but the hospital is on the property and the children are being exposed to horrific scenes as so many injured flow in the hospital and the overflow is being treated outside in plain view of the kids."
We ask that you pray that all the paperwork for the adoption can be speeded up and that James and Pharah can be in their new, loving, Christian home soon. No child needs to see the things they are seeing on a daily basis.
The more I read about what is happening there the more grateful I am for people like Jesse and Kacy and Andy and Jeanne who are willing to do whatever God is asking them to do to help right now. The people there are lacking food and clean water. Diseases are spreading. I've read where the people are fighting for the aid that is being delivered. This is a picture I took off a news website of the looting going on.
I also read this morning that criminals are raping women and young girls. The national police chief said that 7,000 prisoners escaped from the National Penitentiary the night of the earthquake. He said it took 5 years to apprehend them and now they are "running wild."
It's not a good place to be right now.
And that is why now, especially now, in the midst of all of the suffering, crime and chaos, these people need to be reminded of God's goodness. They need someone to care for them the way Jesus would.
I am proud that these two couples we know are doing everything they can do to bring Christ's love to the people of Haiti. I believe God will greatly bless their faithfulness.
Please pray for these families as they minister to the people of Haiti this week and, hopefully, for many years to come.
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