The news of the devastation caused by the magnitude-7.0 earthquake in Haiti has caused me to call out to God in prayer. I grieve the loss of life and the painful injuries sustained by so many people. As I’ve been praying for all the people affected, one young woman named Cathy—a friend our family who is teaching in Port-au-Prince—has been especially on my mind. By God’s grace, we just learned that she was not physically harmed by the quake. 
Please feel free to comment and share your personal prayer requests for people you know in Haiti or ideas for how we can help minister to all the people affected by this tragedy. Let’s call out to God together.
roxanne robbins on January 13, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Please include the Haitian-based “Nehemiah Vision Ministries” in your prayers.
http://blog.nehemiahvisionministries.org/
roxanne robbins on January 13, 2010 at 4:39 pm
Additional ministries and NGOs that need our prayers, as they work around the clock in Haiti to provide emergency relief:
http://www.samaritanspurse.org
http://www.worldvision.org
http://www.savethechildren.org
Check the above websites for updates from the field and “ways to give” to help the people of Haiti.
tyronebcookin on January 14, 2010 at 10:22 am
I was in Port-au-Prince Haiti in 2003 and in Benin (West Africa) in 2004. These two countries are connected thru voodoo, Benin considered the originator (although that can probably be argued) and that went to Haiti from Benin. As both also still use mostly French for primary language.
Haiti was already extremely poor, lack of GOOD infrastructure, evil practices like mixing voodoo with religions, and hurt by several Hurricanes…this country needs/needed our prayers way before the earthquake!
But its good that it got international media attention so it will be brought to the attention of peoples world wide than can concentrate their prayers on this focus.
http://mercyships.org is also mobilizing teams and taking donations to help. I can vouch for them.
cindy on January 15, 2010 at 6:49 pm
When I saw all the children on the first day post-quake , I couldnt get over, no site of any medical personnel, , I thought of all the broken bones ,head injuries and broken hearts and the post -stress as the reality sinks in, I THOUGHTof the team of nurses and surgeons I work with that know how to take care of them and longed to get on a plane. but more than this the the wt. of the spiritual darkness , all the ones who died without knowing the one who can heal what man cannot death. Pray for Haitis salvation and that every one who GOD calls answesr with a resounding yes . WE count it with a unexplanable heavenly joy to share in his sufferings.
sheridan voysey on January 25, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Like tyronebcookin, I have also visited Haiti – just two years ago at this very time of year. I saw the immense poverty, the rubble-strewn city streets of P-a-P that needed a 4WD to access them, the poorly-constructed buildings with their exposed supports and crumbling cement, the half-built brick constructs that were considered ‘home’ for thousands of families – built brick by brick as the families could afford to buy each brick.
I have been so overwhelmed by what I’ve seen (the Montana hotel where I stayed was flattened in the quake and perhaps some I met have lost their lives) that I’ve actually found it difficult to pray for the situation. Where do you start? I’ve simply been saying ‘God – Haiti’. He knows the rest for the time being.
Anyone felt similar?
Yes, please pray for Haiti – that there will be more miraculous evacuations, that the country would be rebuilt stronger than before, and that there would be a great turning to God through this.