Haiti Quake - Day 14
Wed, 2010-01-27 06:51 — jgoode
It has now been two weeks since the disaster. We heard on the news that they succeeded in pulling out another survivor from the rubble. This is four days after the authorities declared an official end to search and rescue operations on January 22, 2010. Haiti is no longer a hot item in newspapers and televised news. Reporters are pulling out and moving on to other stories elsewhere. The constant roar of C-130 and C-5 military cargo planes flying over our heads we have been hearing is no longer there.
However, as for the relief effort being accomplished by Jehovah and his organization, it is moving forward and continuing to care for the needs of our brothers and sisters.
Today, two more trucks of relief supplies arrived via the Dominican Republic. Two members of the Dominican Republic Branch Committee were on the trucks to offer their assistance. They accompanied us as we went into the city of Port-au-Prince to visit two of our regional relief centers at our Kingdom Halls. Despite the sorrow and challenges that our brothers and sisters are dealing with, we sensed their feelings of joy and security. Families are peacefully sitting together, some are preparing food, some are reading their Bibles together. They are so grateful for a safe place to sleep, as the majority of the homes of our brothers and sisters we visited were either destroyed or are unsafe to inhabit.
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