shaky

Would you be praying with me tonight?

We just had a bit of an earthquake...a 5.9, and strong enough to shake everyone up for sure, but all our people from throughout the country are reporting the same thing we felt....shaking and loud noise like heavy trucks passing by, but not hard enough to do damage.  Cap-Haitian is about 75 miles from the center.  We grabbed the kids from their beds and ran outside with all our neighbors and weekend students, but all is physically fine.

But those millions who lost loved ones in the 2010 Earthquake, those many thousand who almost died themselves...the earth shaking tonight brings up all kinds of awful all over again, and my heart breaks for them as my own hands stop trembling.

It's scary to have the earth shake under your feet...but it's traumatic to feel it shake again after having lost so so much last time.  We have several staff members who came to Emmaus as students due to their schools being destroyed in the great earthquake, missionary friends in Port who still struggle, many friends who lost dear loved ones...

Will you be praying with us tonight for their hearts and minds and rests? To the God in it and above it all...thank you.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A magnitude 5.9 earthquake shook northwestern Haiti late Saturday and there were early reports of damage and injuries, though the extent was not immediately clear. There were no immediate confirmed reports of deaths.

The U.S. Geologic Survey said the quake hit at 8:11 p.m. local time and was centered 12 miles northwest of Port-de-Paix on Haiti’s north coast. It was 7.3 miles below the surface.

The country’s civil protection agency issued a statement saying several people were injured and some houses destroyed in Port-de-Paix, Gros Morne, Chansolme and Turtle Island. Among the structures damaged was the Saint-Michel church in Plaisance.

It said other, largely minor injuries were treated in hospitals elsewhere.

The quake was felt lightly in the capital, Port-au-Prince, as well as in the neighboring Dominican Republic.

Impoverished Haiti, where many live in tenuous circumstances, is especially vulnerable to earthquakes. A vastly larger magnitude 7.1 quake damaged much of the capital in 2010 and killed an estimated 300,000 people.  --USA Today