Prayer Request for Emory and Mary Wilson
Please pray for Emory and Mary Wilson, and the people of Gonaives, Haiti. Below is an email that was sent to the FBC Brunswick prayer network.
Thanks for your prayer and support.
Tony McNorton
GIWTE #3
Table of Luke
Here is the post from the Christian Light Foundation webside from Sherry Fausey in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The flood in Gonaives Haiti is worse than the flood was 4 years ago, the water is at least 12 feet deep in some areas according to the information and Gonaives is completely destroyed. Please continue to pray for the Wilson’s and the people of Gonaives. Please pray for their peace, protection and provision. I am afraid the worse is yet to come as the water recedes. If you would like to contribute the information is included in the post. Thank you so much for your prayer and support.For His Glory,
Tony McNorton
Hannah Update from Haiti
9/3/2008
Thank you for praying with us through the night. Things have not changed and continue to worsen. We just received a phone call saying Emory and Mary Wilsons outside walls around their house just fell and washed away their car. There is no food in the city and no way to get in there at this time. Waters continue to rise and are causing mudslides. According to MSNBC’s latest report, Gonieves is completely destroyed.
Below is an email we received from Sherrie Fausey in Port au Prince …
Hello from very soggy Haiti;
The National Hurricane Center has been telling us for 2 days that Tropical Storm Hanna is moving northwest, but all this time it has been moving southeast or stalling over northern Haiti. All of Haiti has had torrential rain and flooding is occuring all over Haiti. This morning the storm had turned north, but according to the weather maps we will still get another rainy day. The wind in Gonaives is calm this morning but Hanna turned east again.
The situation in Gonaives is worse than the devastating flood 4 years ago. Tropical Storm Hanna kept moving southeast which was bringing it in closer. The water in Gonaives receded only to rise again. The city is still flooded. The city has been destroyed. People had no warning so they had to climb to the roof in the middle of the night and could not save anything. People have been without food & clean drinking water since Monday. Thousands of people have been 2 nights and a day on rooftops with no clean water or food. They are cold and wet.
The water totally covered 1 story houses and flooded the second story of many homes so it must be at least 12 feet deep in some areas. People were standing on the roof knee deep in water holding children. There was no way to rescue them. Boats could not be used because of the fast current of the water.
Pastor Genada did reach the orphanage. He could not get the 26 children off the roof so he stayed there with them.
All food supplies in Gonaives have been destroyed. The market where they buy rice & beans is under muddy water. Our school is flooded as are all the other schools. Many people in Gonaives live in a “pay kay” which is a dried mud thatch home. Homes of this type dissolve & collapse in a flood. Many bodies are floating in the water.
As soon as the roads are clear, we plan to send basic food supplies to Gonaives - beans, rice, cooking oil, salt, and matches. We will send whatever clothing & shoes we have here and some sheets & towels. We are coordinating with other missionaries in Port-au-Prince to use pick-up trucks & SUV’s to take these emergency supplies to Gonaives as quickly as possible.
Sherrie
Please continue to pray with us, and if you are able to help, please send contributions to:
CLF
PO BOX 23881
Jacksonville, FL 32241
Attn: Emergency Relief
or online- under emergency relief.
Thank you for all you are doing to help!