October 2008
Since mid-August, Haiti has been ravaged by four major storms that left much of Haiti in ruins and killed more than 500 people. Thank you for your constant prayers for our safety. With the exception of some minor flooding and too much mud, we are thankful that the Hope for Haiti Children's Center compound and properties, as well as our children and missionaries, fared well during the storms. However, this is not the case for most of Haiti and for many other orphanages in the country.

Hurricane Ike, the worst of this season's storms so far, left as many as 800,000 Haitians homeless and hungry, many of them orphaned children. 80% of Haiti's rice fields were destroyed by the storms and world governments predict that without an enormous surge of foreign aid, a famine in Haiti is imminent within six months. Even before these storms, the food crisis was a source of pain and anguish for the Haitian people, causing rioting and hopelessness throughout the country. Now the need is even more desperate.

Please pray with me, for all of Danita's Children, as we consider how we can bring hope, healing and health to the people of Haiti and especially the orphaned children. With famine a strong possibility, we want to be Christ's hands and feet extended to these hurting people; to bring hope to the hopeless.