Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Pray NOW for relief workers to enter Haiti
Dr. Steve Nelson is a good friend who has worked in Ecuador for years. He is leading a team from Quito to give medical assistance in Haiti. At this very moment as I write, they are trying to get from Florida to Port au Prince.
We arrrived in Miami around noon … rented a large van in order to get team and equipment up to West Palm beach where a chartered plane is waiting. Unfortunately … they had been waiting all day just to get clearance to fly into Haiti.
Apparently the air above the airport in Port au prince is full of circling relief planes trying to get their chance to touch down. There are only twenty spots on the limited airport space and as the planes land they download their cargo and take off and another attempts their own landing.
Franklin Graham circled the airport today for two hours after having had clearance to fly from here in West Palm beach. But there is a triage system in effect and as they were about to land, aC130 with search dogs “trumped” their landing and they had to return. We have met up the Samaritan’s purse team and now we are waiting together for clearance and have another hour of window of opportunity to get in today. Otherwise we will try and find a place to rest tonight and start again early tomorrow morning.
Please pray that we get a chance to get in … even tonight if possible. We are certain that the medical people we are slated to relieve are so very tired after this now 48 hour marathon in the hospital.
Pray with us too for those dear people who start to face new problems every day even after having survived the first impact of the earthquake.
Steve and the Quito team is experiencing what NBC news reported earlier today. Not only is the Port au Prince airport backed up, so are airports in the neighboring Dominican Republic, and then the roads between the DR and Haiti are in poor condition. As for ships, facilities at the Haitian port are almost completely destroyed by the earthquake.
Pray for God’s provision of a way in.
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