Help is on the Way!

The Mangine's

Lucette

One of the many collapsed buildings in Jacmel

Hello everyone, I am feeling tired, emotionally drained but we must go on and do what we can from here.

There is good news and bad. I will start with the good.

Crosspointe church, a church in N.C. who greatly supports Joy In Hope in Jacmel has gotten a plane to go from N.C. to Jacmel, through Puerto Rico. That is great news!Medical supplies will get to the people of Jacmel. Pam McKerring, missionary coordinator for the church, is on the plane. She will be delivering medical supplies and then picking up the 3 Mangine kids and then going back to deliver them to their grandparents.

Please pray that all goes well.

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I don't know why Nixon and I are not on that plane as well except that God willed it that way. We have to trust the fact that He knows best. He always does and has shown it many times.

Also, I dont have confirmation on this yet but Seguin does not seem to have felt the quake very much. Seguin is the home of 5 of our 6 boys. I hope to hear soon whether their families are well.

Also, Lucette and her family is well. Her house doesn't have anything but a few cracks. God is good!

I am still waiting to hear about our dear elderly friends. I trust that they are fine as well.

My heart broke as I read the statistics on Jacmel. I can't believe what has happened. Jacmel definitely is not the same town that we had left. These are yesterday's UN statistics. Danny Pye and Leann Pye, directors for Joy In Hope in Jacmel, Haiti attended a meeting yesterday.

1,785 homes completely destroyed 4410 homes partially destroyed
87 commercial businesses destroyed
54 schools destroyed
24 hotels destroyed
26 churches destroyed
5730 families displaced

Death count approaching 3,000 (nearly 10%)

-Please keep praying for our people in Haiti.

-Pray that the supplies are delivered and that the children are delivered to their parent in N.C. safely.

-We also pray that you pray for our team on the ground in Jacmel. They need strength, both physically and mentally to keep on doing what they are doing. Danny and Leann Pye, Nick and Gwenn Mangine(who are sending their kids to N.C. today), and Georgette Riegel and her two sons(her husband was in Florida when the earthquake hit).

In Christ,

Sandra and Nixon Altidor

Jer. 29:11