one thing never changes...

...Jesus continues to be all that Haiti needs!

It is hard to believe that in a country this beautiful, there are so many ugly things. Much of the beauty is being replaced by these things right now, as you've probably seen on the news.

With an estimated 55% price increase on food and fuel in Haiti since June, "What we're seeing in Haiti is a new face of hunger," says the World Food Programme. "Rising prices means less food for people that are already hungry. Even in places where food is available on the shelves, there are more and more people who simply cannot afford it."

This "new face of hunger" is being described as "eating Clorox" by the Haitian people because of the burning feeling in their stomachs that comes from days without food.

The ugliness of starvation is now being paired with the ugliness of desperation: anger, theft, protesting, confusion.

It is so difficult to read of similar things happening around the world: in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Mozambique and Senegal.

But it is devastating to SEE these things happen, to hear them happen, and to watch them happen with people that we have come to love. It is devastating to hear of their hunger and anger and fear, and to be unable to fix it.

We don't know much about how to deal with any of this, but know well the One Who Does. And in a time when anger and lies are flying, we intimately know The stabilizing Truth. We live in the midst of a hungry people we cannot help, but we speak with the Bread of Life.

"For the bread of God
is that which comes down out of heaven,
and gives life to the world.
Jesus said to them,
'I am the bread of life;
he who comes to Me will not hunger,
and he who believes in Me will never thirst.
But I said to you that you have seen Me,
and yet do not believe." John 6:33...

Please pray with us for the people of Haiti and for the people of the world that are hurting.

Please pray for peace, pray for food, pray for lowered prices. Please pray for the spiritual hunger that is even more apparent lately than the physical hunger. Pray that anger would be exchanged for peace, confusion for truth, darkness for light.

Please pray urgently with us! You have been alongside when we started this journey almost three years ago, and were with us the day we moved to Haiti. Please continue to walk with us in your prayers

Hebrews 13:3 says "Remember the prisoners as though in prison with them, and those who are ill-treated as though you were ill-treated, since you are in the Body!"

We are encouraged by your life-changing prayers, and standing on His unwavering promises.

As a quick side note to parents and grandparents...WE ARE FINE! Things look much worse on the news than they truly are, and we are still teaching and working as normal :) Love you!